Organization
Syncore is a top provider of automated, integrated logistics solutions ranging from robust, automated pallet storage to fully automated goods-to-person systems using technologies such as AutoStore, Geek+ (AMR) and Movu atlas pallet shuttle technology. Syncore has subsidiaries in Germany, The Netherlands, Poland and Austria. It is the Logistic Solutions division within the Royal Reesink group of companies. Royal Reesink is an international distributor and service provider with 2.600 employees and a yearly turnover of €1.4B, headquartered in the Netherlands.
Solution Engineering within Syncore
The Solution Engineering department develops customized solutions for automated logistics systems. In doing so, customer requirements are translated into coherent concepts, expected costs are determined, and the involved departments are coordinated through to proposal readiness. We deliver our projects in Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, and other European countries.
As a Solution Engineer Retrofit, you connect customer requirements, solution development, and sales. You develop concepts for modernizing and further enhancing existing automated logistics systems and support them from the initial need through to the right proposal.
In this role, you are in direct contact with our customers, coordinate the necessary internal alignments, and bring together all relevant information into a coherent and economically suitable overall solution.
In this position, you report directly to the Head of Sales Retrofit Solutions. The position is hybrid, with our office in Offenau as the primary work location.
As your role develops, you can take on increasing responsibility for customers and projects and progress towards Account Management.
Key tasks and responsibilities
- You analyze existing automated logistics systems and develop suitable solution concepts from them. In doing so, you take into account electrical engineering, automation, drive technology, software, system architectures and the associated interfaces;
- You familiarize yourself with existing control systems and software architectures, understand how they interact and assess their impact on the overall solution;
- You conduct site surveys at the customer’s premises, clarify requirements and interfaces, and prepare the information gathered for further project planning;
- You coordinate the necessary alignments within Syncore and work closely with the teams in Germany, the Netherlands and Poland;
- You develop offers, evaluate different options together with Sales from a commercial perspective, and deal with pricing, offer structure and profitability;
- You prepare the developed concepts for customer meetings and present them together with Sales.
Your profile
We welcome both graduates and applicants with professional experience. The level of responsibility will reflect your experience. What matters to us is initiative, willingness to learn and the motivation to take on responsibility.
- A completed degree, for example in industrial engineering, business administration/economics, electrical engineering, automation technology, mechatronics, mechanical engineering, technical computer science or a comparable field;
- We welcome both graduates and applicants with professional experience. What matters to us is initiative, willingness to learn and the motivation to take on responsibility;
- You enjoy understanding complex systems and how they interact, and developing suitable solutions from them;
- You can communicate complex issues in a structured and understandable way and enjoy interacting with customers and colleagues;
- You are interested in commercial contexts, pricing and sales-related questions as much as in developing the right solution;
- You enjoy working in an international environment and have good German and English language skills.
What Syncore offers
- Working in a top segment with professional projects;
- Flexible working hours and 30 days of annual leave;
- Opportunity to work from home 1–2 days per week;
- Attractive salary package including holiday and Christmas bonuses;
- Capital-forming benefits, company pension scheme, and private supplementary health insurance;
- Company bike for private use and Hansefit fitness program;
- Regular English lessons and individual training opportunities;
- A family-oriented working environment with short decision-making paths;
- Plenty of freedom to contribute your own ideas and take responsibility;
- Exciting and varied projects using state-of-the-art automation technology;
- Mobile phone and laptop.
Contact
Would you like to know more about this vacancy? Please feel free to contact Rieke Golz (HR Manager Syncore GmbH) at +49 7136 9575 0 or send your application to rieke.golz@syncore.com.
