🚀 We're Hiring: Weighing R&D Engineer

📍 Primary Location: JBT Marel, Gardabaer

🕒 Employment Type: Full-Time, Hybrid (3-4 days a week at the office)

💼 Department: Secondary Fresh - Innovation

💥 Lead the Future of Work at JBT Marel

Do you want to play a key role in ensuring that innovative food processing solutions meet the highest standards for legal weighing, certification, and compliance?

Within the Innovation team of the Secondary Fresh department in Garðabær, we are looking for a Weighing R&D Engineer with a strong focus on standardization, certification, administration, and documentation.

You will join a local innovation team of around 10 engineers, mostly mechanical, working at the heart of product development for secondary fresh food processing. Together, you ensure that both existing solutions and new product developments comply with international weighing regulations — from concept all the way to market introduction.

🔍 About the Role

As Weighing R&D Engineer, you are responsible for the validation, certification, and compliance of weighing-related solutions used in food processing equipment. You play a central role in safeguarding compliance with legal weighing rules, directives, and standards, while supporting innovation and standardization across the product portfolio.

You work across the development lifecycle, with a particular focus on certification, documentation, and regulatory approval. In this role, you collaborate closely with colleagues from Innovation, Supply Chain, Sales (including Product Management), Manufacturing, Service, and external notified bodies and regulatory authorities.

With your deep understanding of food processing and weighing equipment, you ensure that solutions are compliant, well documented, and certifiable. You act as a key point of reference for certification, documentation, and regulatory questions, and maintain active communication with notified bodies and legal entities.

🧠 What You’ll Do

• Support R&D projects with a strong focus on certification, compliance, and regulatory approval
• Contribute your technical expertise to ensure solutions are compliant and ready for industrial use
• Identify regulatory requirements and ensure alignment with applicable directives and standards
• Act as the go-to expert for certification, compliance, and legal weighing requirements within the organization
• Coordinate and manage communication with notified bodies and relevant legal entities
• Prepare, maintain, and manage certification documentation and technical files
• Support testing and validation activities to ensure compliance with legal and performance requirements
• Play a key role in certification, compliance, and standardization, ensuring products meet legal weighing requirements
• Continuously support improvements to ensure existing equipment remains compliant and up to date
• Collaborate closely with Innovation, Sales, Service, and Manufacturing. Your input directly supports their success
• Share your knowledge through clear documentation and guidance, leaving a lasting impact on the product portfolio

🛠️ What You Bring

The preferred candidate should possess a diverse educational background and/or relevant experience in manufacturing companies, service management, technical roles, process management, and customer support.

If you are the right candidate, ideally you are a Mechanical Engineer with a practical/craft background within Weighing solutions with a strong interest in mechanics and electrical systems. Next to this, you recognize yourself in:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Food Technology or related field and/or comparable experience and knowledge
• Flexibility in working hours because the position requires working outside of normal business hours and on short notice
• Experience with and comfort working in multi-cultural, multi-discipline organization is an advantage Practical knowledge of materials (e.g. stainless steel, UHMW, nylon, POM), pneumatics, hydraulics, elec trical/electronics (e.g. PLCs) and use of embedded software
• Knowledge of the Office package including ERP and CAD system
• Ability to learn and understand the operation of milling machine, lathe, drill press, hand tools, and welding
• Ability to develop equipment in a logical, methodical, and defined process
• Attention to detail and critically evaluate equipment performance a must
• Ability to work in multi-cultural teams as well as directly with customer
• Ability to work on different projects concurrently
• Ability to implement quality system principles
• Understand and ability to follow health and safety procedures both internally and at customer site
• Good English along with technical communication skills

We encourage each of our 12,500+ employees to bring their unique self to work and aim to make everyone feel recognized, valued and free to explore their potential. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture and welcoming new colleagues from all walks of life.

🌟 Nice to Have

• Have worked in a development or innovation environment
• Hands-on experience in equipment development, preferably in food processing is preferable
• Ability to travel as it is projected to be part of the role, including international travel

🏬 Why Join Us?

There’s nothing like the feeling you get when you do something worthwhile for a living. That said, coming home from work knowing you made a difference is just one of the great things you can experience at JBT Marel. You can expect: 

• A key position in an Innovation Team of approximately 40 dedicated specialists
• Significant hands-on influence on the development of new machines and solutions
• Freedom to take initiative and make a real impact in a growing global business
• An environment of trust and respect with space to explore and fail
• An informal, ambitious, and cross-organizational working environment
• A network of specialists who are always willing to help
• A healthy work-life balance and flexible working arrangements
• A varied job with a high degree of practical work
• A modern workplace focused on innovation, quality, and professionalism
• Endless possibilities to keep learning: access to Linkedin Learning and Busuu language learning
• To get a career instead of a job. We have many opportunities for internal growth; and we encourage it!

📩 How to Apply

We’re excited to learn how you can contribute to our mission of smarter, safer food inspection. Apply now and join a team transforming the future of food processing.

Interviews will be conducted on an ongoing basis, and we will hire when the right candidate is found.

📧 Questions? Contact TA Business Partner: Maarten Krepel – [email protected] 

🌐 Learn more at:  jbtmarel.com

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Connect with Talent Acquisition Specialist: www.linkedin.com/in/maartenkrepel

JBT Marel is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in the workplace. We encourage all qualified individuals to apply.

Join us — and be the driving force behind smarter, leaner food production.

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