Ventilation Application Expert

Join us at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin): Where purpose comes to life.

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose ‘to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you?

At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The places we live in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments!

We are currently looking for a Ventilation Application Expert to join us at Wavin Technology & Innovation in Dedemsvaart, Netherlands or Hammel, Denmark. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

The role

In the challenging position of Ventilation Application Engineer, you are responsible for product and application research and development while providing expertise in the full development lifecycle, from concept and design to testing of our Indoor Climate Solutions ventilation systems. Furthermore you will integrate the customer needs into products in an innovative way based upon system thinking, research on comfort, indoor air quality and how to deliver this. You will make designs, execute engineering and develop the product(s) till production implementation.

Furthermore you will work with other disciplines within our organization, suppliers and manufacturing sites. The business context will be provided by regular contact with international commercial teams. In this position you will report to the Global Product Manager – Ventilation.

Your responsibilities:

• Design and develop new indoor climate ventilation solutions based on market requirements; state of the art research and creative application of technologies;
• Further improve existing solutions to enhance user experiences;
• Develop and improve analytical tools to support effective solution development;
• Contact with all kind of external partners and customers;
• Preparation of prototypes and revise system designs;
• Provide competitive benchmarking;
• Support product and application tests;
• Continuously feed the Indoor Climate Solutions business with knowledge & ideas in the application field;
• Provide product, technology and application training and technical documentation;
• Contribute in “advancing life around the world”.

Your profile:

• Bachelor degree in Mechanical or Mechatronic Engineering or associated degree.
• Preferably experience with residential mechanical ventilation. Experience in other areas of mechanical services is also appropriate; HVAC, Air distribution, Heat Pumps, Heating and Cooling.
• Wide interest in technologies and able to cooperate with international colleagues in different application areas;
• Project Management skills;
• Team player, Self-starter, hands-on, creative, flexible and pro-active;
• Able to communicate effectively in English (verbal & writing).

What Orbia Building & Infrastructure offers

Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin)! Here we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world. Above all we encourage all our employees to develop their talents and to become the best version of themselves. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day. Orbia B&I is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

Organization

Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens. Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Orbia B&I collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes. Orbia B&I has 11,000+ employees and 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network. Our key commercial brands are: Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, Plastigama Wavin, and Bow Wavin.

Orbia Building & Infrastructure is part of Orbia – a company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in several sectors including: Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluor and Energy Materials (Koura). These five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has a global team of over 24,000 employees, commercial activities in more than 100 countries and operations in over 50, with headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. The company generated $8.2 billion in revenue in 2023.

Contact us

If you have questions or want to know more about the position, please contact Teppo Laakso, Manager Global Talent Acquisition via teppo.laakso@orbia.com.

To apply, use the ‘apply’ button or e-mail your cover letter and English CV to teppo.laakso@orbia.com.

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