Lead Mechanical Engineer

As a Lead Mechanical Engineer, you are responsible for building and maintaining a strong engineering team, as well as continuously improving the way we work. At Eurosort, you are the connecting force behind the development of people, processes, and technical quality. You combine leadership with hands-on involvement and ensure that your team improves every day.

In this role, the focus is not only on technology, but also on developing and connecting people and optimizing processes. You create structure, bring focus, and enable engineers to perform at their best. As a true “player-coach,” you primarily focus on coaching, facilitating, and improving, while stepping in on complex technical challenges when needed. You safeguard the bigger picture and ensure everything aligns—from collaboration and ways of working to output and quality. The team consists of 11 Mechanical Engineers, spread across different levels, roles, and responsibilities.

What do we offer

• An attractive salary that reflects the seniority of the role and your experience

• Performance-based bonus scheme up to 150% of your gross monthly salary

• 30 vacation days per year

• 70% pension contribution covered

• Travel allowance (€0.23 per km)

• Laptop and phone (also for personal use)

• A key role within an international and growing organization

• A high level of responsibility, autonomy, and impact

• Plenty of room for personal and professional development

• Training and courses (technical & soft skills)

• Working on complex, high-tech machine building projects

• A strong and informal engineering team with short communication lines

What will you do

As a Lead Mechanical Engineer, you are responsible for the optimal performance of the mechanical engineering department. You ensure that projects run smoothly, processes are effectively structured, and engineers continuously develop.

You work in an agile/scrum environment where you facilitate sprint processes and bring structure. You oversee multiple projects simultaneously and support engineers where needed. Your focus is on improving collaboration, increasing quality, and scaling the department.

You play a central role in professionalizing the organization: you drive standardization, optimize workflows, and ensure that more projects can be delivered without increasing complexity.

You work closely with Project Lead Engineers, Project Managers, and other departments, ensuring alignment across the organization.

Concretely, this means:

• Leading and developing the mechanical engineering team

• Coaching, mentoring, and guiding junior, medior, and senior engineers

• Stimulating personal growth, ownership, and team development

• Safeguarding technical quality and consistency across all projects

• Facilitating sprint processes (planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives)

• Organizing and ensuring design reviews and quality control processes

• Monitoring project progress, workload, and team performance

• Acting as an escalation point for complex technical challenges

• Actively contributing to projects on critical or complex engineering tasks

• Aligning with Project Leads, Project Managers, and other stakeholders

• Initiating and implementing process improvements within engineering

• Driving standardization, modularization, and efficiency

• Improving “first time right” and reducing lead times

• Ensuring proper use of systems such as Inventor, Vault, Ridder IQ, and Jira

• Further developing and safeguarding engineering processes and ways of working

• Creating a strong team culture focused on feedback, collaboration, and growth

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (HBO/WO) in Mechanical Engineering or similar

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in machine building or a similar industry

• Proven experience in leading teams or departments

• Strong technical foundation in mechanical engineering and CAD (Inventor)

• Experience with PDM/ERP systems (such as Vault and Ridder IQ) and Jira is a plus

• Knowledge of production processes, assembly, and GD&T

• Experience with CE guidelines and machine safety

• Strong leadership and coaching skills

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

• The ability to convince, connect, and provide direction

• Fluent in Dutch and English

About Eurosort

Eurosort develops and delivers innovative sorting systems for logistics applications worldwide. Our solutions are used in industries such as e-commerce, fashion, and parcel handling, where speed and reliability are critical.

At Eurosort, we combine technical innovation with a strong focus on collaboration and development. The Mechanical Engineering department plays a central role in delivering our systems and in further professionalizing our organization. We are not only building smart machines, but also strong teams and sustainable growth.