What is required?
- Senior secondary vocational education or equivalent ability
- At least 1 year of relevant work experience
- An ability to work independently and accurately
- An ability to read/understand technical (detail) drawings
- A good fluency in Dutch
- Technical acumen and a practical attitude
What will you get?
- €2,500 - €3,400 (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% Preparing, processing, and producing samples
- 30% Producing and developing testing elements
- 20% Collaborating and sharing knowledge with co-workers
- 10% Working on other tasks and implementing improvements
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/Fabrication Testing Department Employee at EFP European Facade Products, you will be responsible for producing samples and testing elements of aluminum facade systems, including Doors, Windows, and Curtain Walling. You'll cut and process profiles in accordance with specifications to meet the requirements regarding water resistance and system design, among other things.
You will perform your tasks based on product drawings. It's important that you work accurately and apply the correct dimensions and finishes. You'll mainly produce samples that are required by our customers, but frequently you will produce testing elements for recently developed systems. In this position, you'll be encouraged to consider alternative solutions and improvements to achieve a better or simpler final product. You will work in the Test & training Department, where various machines and tools are available to process aluminium profiles.
You will be part of a small team within the Test & Training division & warehouse where we process orders, R&D/Fabrication employees, and a team leader being your supervisor. You'll work closely together, share knowledge, and help each other where necessary.
If you enjoy working with your hands and creating testing elements and samples based on a product drawing, and you find it challenging to tackle both repetitive and varied tasks, this is the right job for you
Working week
It's a nice working day when a good result is achieved for the testing element you created.
It's a less pleasant working day when you create 20 identical samples, but you'll feel contented afterward, which makes the process worth the effort.
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- Lunch break
- Coffee moment
- Creating samples
- Creating samples
- Working on test element
- Preparatory work for making samples
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- Lunch break
- Coffee moment
- Meeting with colleague
- Preparatory work for making samples
- Creating samples
- Working on product optimization
- Creating samples
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- Lunch break
- Coffee moment
- Creating samples
- Working on test element
- Preparatory work for making samples
- Meeting with colleague
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- Lunch break
- Coffee moment
- Preparatory work for making samples
- Creating samples
- Creating samples
- Working on product optimization
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- Coffee moment
- Free afternoon
- Creating samples
- Creating samples
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
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