Optical R&D Engineer
IMS Almelo
What is required?
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in optical engineering and/or mechatronics
- At least 2 years relevant work experience
- Able to develop optical systems
- Excellent command of English. Command of Dutch is an advantage
- Independent, practical and enterprising
What will you get?
- €3.000 - €5.000 gross p/m, depending on knowledge and experience
- 32 to 40 hours working week
- 27 holiday days + 7 atv days
- Personal training budget
What will you do?
- 5% Supervising students
- 5% Consultation R&D team
- 10% Project consultation
- 10% Debugging optical measuring systems
- 10% Answering questions from colleagues
- 60% Modelling, testing and analysing optical measuring systems
This vacancy has been created based on interviews with employees to help you get a realistic preview of the job.
Vacancy
As an Optical R&D Engineer at IMS, you are responsible for the development of automated Vision systems for production lines and machines. This mainly concerns new machines: think of a combination of cameras, lenses, mirrors and lighting ensuring that a product or part is checked or measured. You take care of the optical components assembling this combination. These combinations are, for example, used in telephones and headlights. You model the measurement components, after which you test, analyse and improve them in practice.
You will work a lot with the software programme Zemax OpticStudio and with Vision software, such as Halcon or OpenCV. You use Zemax OpticStudio for theoretical purposes: modelling the optical components. Then you will use Vision software for the practical side: you will model the algorithm and test it extensively, before it is built into a machine. Your goal is to design a robust measurement system. You will therefore also interpret the test results and use them to improve, debug and validate.
Half of your time is spent on modelling, while the rest is spent on building and testing in practice. The office and workshop are adjacent, so you can quickly and easily see the results of what you have modelled.
You work in the R&D team, which consists of nine colleagues from different disciplines. However, most colleagues have a background in mechanics and/or mechanical engineering. You work on both internal and external projects: sometimes IMS wants to completely build a machine itself, before involving a customer. Finally, you sometimes supervise one or more students who are working or doing an internship at IMS.
Acquisition in response to this vacancy is not appreciated. We do not derive rights or obligations from profiles and cv's that are sent unsolicited. Therefore, we regard them as not being sent.
If you like to design visual measurement systems and then test this in practice, and you find it challenging to do very analytical work, then this is a job for you.
Working week
Richard Lubbers
On an enjoyable working day, I help in debugging the Vision algorithm of an optical alignment system. This allowed everyone to move on with the project again.
During a less enjoyable day, I am busy answering questions from colleagues. It's nice that colleagues ask me for advice, but it prevents me from doing my own work.
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- Setting up test environment
- Meeting project team
- Meeting R&D colleague
- Answering questions from colleagues
- Lunch
- Working on a machine
- Managing a student
- Testing optical measuring system
- Answering questions from colleagues
- Administration
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- Debugging optical measuring system
- Modelling
- Lunch
- Meeting R&D department
- Modelling
- Meeting project team
- Modelling
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- Administration
- Managing a student
- Analyzing measurements
- Answering questions from colleagues
- Lunch
- Analyzing measurements
- Meeting R&D colleague
- Debugging optical measuring system
- Modellign
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- Analyzing measurements
- Modelling
- Meeting project team
- Lunch
- Setting up test environment
- Learning Cycle Event (internal project)
- Testing optical measuring system
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- Testing optical measuring system
- Meeting R&D colleague
- Debugging optical measuring system
- Managing a student
- Lunch
- Debugging optical measuring system
- Modelling
- Administration
Firsthand experience
Growth
The growth path within IMS is not fixed. You will be given the opportunity and room for personal and professional growth, for example by following training courses. IMS draws up a budget and sets time available for this. In addition, initiative and entrepreneurship are highly valued within IMS.
Working at IMS
IMS (Integrated Mechanization Solutions) develops and supplies highly accurate production systems. IMS has been doing this for twenty years, with Almelo as its place of business. IMS specialises in building (automated) assembly lines and in process automation for small, complex products and assemblies. IMS always strives for accuracy and high volumes in the assembly lines.
The customers IMS supports are mainly OEMs and TIER 1 suppliers in the field of automotive, photonics, smart devices and the medical world.
*Acquisition in response to vacancies is not appreciated. We do not derive rights or obligations from profiles and cv's that are sent unsolicited. Therefore, we regard them as not being sent.
- Headquarters in Almelo
- Installations based in more than 20 countries
- 120 employees in the Netherlands
- 20 % / 80%
- Average age 40 years
- Possibility to work from home 20% of your time