What is required?
- Senior secondary vocational/higher education or equivalent ability
- Preferably 3-5 years of relevant work experience
- Knowledge of AutoCAD
- Proper command of Dutch and English, both spoken and written
- Technical understanding of the facade industry
What will you get?
- €2,800 - €3,600 (depending on knowledge and experience)
- 40-hour work week
- 25 vacation days
- Opportunities for training and growth
- Reimbursement of travel expenses
What will you do?
- 40% AutoCAD designing and drawing
- 20% Customer communication and email management
- 20% Application of technical insights, considering production and costs, among other things
- 15% Rounds of feedback and prep work
- 5% Internal meetings
This vacancy has been created based on interviews with employees to help you get a realistic preview of the job.
Vacancy
As a R&D Draftsperson/Design Engineer at EFP European Facade Products, you will be responsible for developing and designing system profiles for facades, skylights, windows, and doors. In doing so, you take all aspects such as wind-load, water resistance, static requirements, design, budget, and technical feasibility into account.
You will work closely with customers to create customized solutions for special architectural project requirements where our standard façade systems don't meet the requirements. In the design phase, you'll peruse project drawings and consult with the customer, architect and/or consultant on their specific needs and demands by e-mail, video conferencing or phone. After, you will develop one or more proposals based on existing profiles and the required shape. You'll consider materials available of the facade contractors’ preference, and the suitability of the building, among other things. 2D drawing in AutoCAD will form a significant part of your job, while a technical understanding of facade systems and the ability to work independently will be important.
You'll join a technical design team consisting currently of approximately four colleagues, and each has experience of its own. In this role, you will report to the general manager. EFP European Facade Products mainly works on projects in the Middle East, India, Pakistan and Africa, you should be able to properly communicate in English and constantly switch between several ongoing projects.
If you enjoy working in a technical, solution-oriented way and find it challenging to consider different aspects when designing, this is the right job for you.
Working week
It's a nice working day when you help customers and actively contribute ideas to create solutions to their facade challenges.
If you enjoy working in a technical, solution-oriented way and find it challenging to consider different aspects when designing, this is the right job for you.
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- 11:00
- 12:00
- 13:00
- 14:00
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- Lunch break
- Reading and replying to mails
- Designing and drawing in AutoCAD
- Coffee moment
- Processing feedback
- Preparatory work for designing and drawing
- Contact with client
- Designing and drawing in AutoCAD
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- Lunch break
- Preparatory work for designing and drawing
- Reading and replying to mails
- Designing and drawing in AutoCAD
- Reading and replying to mails
- Coffee moment
- Meeting with colleague
- Contact with client
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- Lunch break
- Reading and replying to mails
- Coffee moment
- Internal consultation
- Reading and replying to mails
- Preparatory work for designing and drawing
- Designing and drawing in AutoCAD
- Designing and drawing in AutoCAD
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- Lunch break
- Contact with client
- Reading and replying to mails
- Coffee moment
- Preparatory work for designing and drawing
- Processing feedback
- Processing feedback
- Designing and drawing in AutoCAD
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- Coffee moment
- Meeting with colleague
- Free afternoon
- Reading and replying to mails
- Reading and replying to mails
- Designing and drawing in AutoCAD
Firsthand experience
Growth
At EFP International, we mainly provide training on the job, and you mostly learn from well-versed co-workers —partly because you should discover and further expand the specific aspects of system development in practice.
Working at EFP European Facade Products
EFP European Facade Products was founded in 2004 and develops quality aluminum profile systems for the facade industry. Its customers are international window/door facade contractors that manufacture and install EFP profiles and components in order to create and install the correct end product. In addition to profiles, they also develop all other system components, gaskets/seals, accessories, fittings, and a like. EFP is in close contact with investors, project developers, architects, and contractors in order to assure providing the most suitable solutions for each market.
EFP's end product is the shell of a building, or, the exterior façade you can see. A crucial product requirement is climate control of the building, this includes heat & sound insulation, waterproofing and minimize the air ingress. Aesthetics, budget, production, and assembly efficiency are also important. They're mainly applied for the benefit of large office blocks/towers, hotels, but also for residential buildings. For all systems, test elements are in-house pre-made and tested on performance by independent national and international test-institutes.
- Headquarters in Marum
- Active in 23 countries
- 16 employees in the Netherlands
- 18 employees around the world
- 5% / 95%
- Average age 45 years
- Working from home by exception