Research and Development Engineer

Location:

Region: North Holland
Country: Netherlands

Role:

  • Industry: R&D & QA
  • Job Type: Contract / Freelance
Rate: Negotiable

Application Details:

Start Date: ASAP
Expiry Date: 15/10/2025
Job Reference: SLRDE_1758114906

Research and Development Engineer

G2 Recruitment currently has an exciting opportunity for an R&D Engineer with an operational/production background to join our client in the North Holland region, supporting projects for consumer goods.

The client is a fast growing company focusing on FMCG projects, specifically in the beverage industry. They have a rapidly increasing workload currently and are aiming to grow the team over the next few years, bringing excellent development opportunity.

They are particularly interested in candidates with a hands on, operational bias, with experience in consumer goods manufacturing industries, or similar. You will be working on prototyping, testing, system optimisation and some CAD design work, supporting the R&D/NPI team.

THE CLIENT ARE OPEN TO APPLICATIONS FOR BOTH PERMANENT AND FREELANCE CANDIDATES

START: ASAP

SALARY/PACKAGE (PERMANENT): €4,000 - €5,000 per month + 8% + Bonus

FREELANCE: Short term cover - 3-month initial contract - up to €55 per hour

OFFICE LOCATION: North Holland, Netherlands

Essential Skills:

- Mechanical Engineering background or similar

- Background working with design engineering with metals, preferably aluminium

- Experience with standard design software (Solidworks, Inventor, etc.)

- Any electronics or mechatronics experience is very beneficial

- Fluent English and conversational Dutch essential

The client has advised there are potentially multiple vacancies for this position with the company in a position to grow the team quickly due to their workload and upcoming projects.

g2 Recruitment are committed to equality of opportunity for all applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships or any other characteristic protected by law.

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L&D Team

We are very lucky that g2 recruitment see Learning and Development as a vital part of a consultants journey which is why we have 4 people in the team who you will work very closely with from day 1 in your career. The team are on hand to guide you through your career at all levels and provide extra support working closely with the management team to give all consultants the best chance of success.  

Our Three Pillars of Training

Academy:
Week 1 is a series of remote sessions to learn all things systems, followed by a 1 week academy process which is a mixture of classroom and deskside this will be in one of our UK offices and usually consists of 3-8 other consultants all starting their journey together.

Experienced Modules:
These are a variety of sessions curated by us designed to support consultants as they are progressing through the career ladder, the aim is to ensure consultants at all levels have access to L&D.

Junior Management Programme:
Ran by our head of L&D this programme is designed to support junior managers as they start their management career. This involves things like personal branding, time management and ends in a business plan which is presented to members of the Exec board and senior management team.

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Jaz D’Avola
Head of Learning & Development

Jaz joined g2 Recruitment in 2013.

She now leads our Learning and Development programme, transferring the knowledge and wisdom she learnt as a recruiter to the new generation of talent.

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Imani WIlliams
Learning and Development Consultant

Imani joined g2 Recruitment in 2022.

His role involves developing individuals in all areas of the business, varying from inducting and onboarding consultants to working with them 1 to 1 to identify areas of development.  He aids with growth of L&D across the business, watching consultants experience and develop.

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Meghan Mcloughlin
Learning and Development Consultant

Meghan joined g2 in 2023 as an L&D consultant, Working in recruitment for 6 years, her role is to  help consultants at all levels to upskill and focus on development points. This could be anything from sales calls or candidate calls to organisation improvements.

Kane Gray
Systems & Academy Trainer

Kane joined g2 in April 2023 as an Academy & Systems Trainer.

His role involves teaching the consultants that are new to the company the foundations of recruitment and our systems before then helping them to upskill in areas specific to each consultant. Working closely with different consultants and watching them implement the feedback, apply it, and then benefit off the back of it.

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