Manufacturing Engineer

Manufacturing Engineer Position

As a Manufacturing Engineer, you will focus on the processes within the Operations department at our new high-end production location in Almelo, including safety/working conditions, quality, capacity, and costs. With your track record of delivering high-quality production systems, you will play a key part in development projects from an early stage, setting up requirements and developing procedures. You will ensure the correct physical and administrative processes are followed to meet the organization’s goals. You will be the ‘go-to’ person for any issues experienced by the production staff and with your knowledge and experience, will establish the best resolutions. Finally, with your project-based approach, you will continuously strive to develop and improve existing processes.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Responsible for the development of new assembly processes.
• Problem solving when needed on the shop floor.
• Prepare investment proposals and tender for new equipment.
• Setup work instructions for the employees to build a bike.
• Setup the routing of the product through the factory.
• Continuously improve current process with lean, six sigma and other principles.
• Support assembly team with ad hoc problem solving.
• Support assembly team to perform.

What You Bring to the Table

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Technical Business Administration, or a similar field. Familiar with setting up a production line and contributing to further professionalizing our production department. Very proactive and used to working independently as well. Good verbal and written Dutch and English skills. Good analytical skills. Flexible and results-driven.

Join Cannondale

For more than 50 years, Cannondale has been a leading innovator in the cycling world. As more riders of all ages and abilities get on the roads, trails, and streets than ever before, we're here to do the best work of our lives to push the greatest human-powered machine into the future each and every day. We're committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce where every teammate can succeed as we inspire riders everywhere. Fueled by a free-thinking, always-game, "got-your-back" mentality, we ditched the rulebook and set forward on a path to make iconic bikes that simply work better. We look forward to the ride with you.

What We Offer

Some of our Great Benefits:

• Hybrid work environment
• Generous Paid Time Off
• Great discounts on company products
• Employee Wellness Program Pon Fit
• A mix of casual yet professional culture
• Discount additional health insurance package
• Onsite gym (Almelo and Woudenberg)
• Travel reimbursement
• Collective Labour Agreement Metalektro
• Pension plan

About the Organization

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Cannondale we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

We are a Cycle Friendly Employer. The cycle-friendly employer certification scheme was developed to establish a European standard for cycle-friendly companies. The certification is intended to help European companies to improve the situation for employees that cycle to work. As an acknowledgment for our effort we received the certificate “cycle-friendly employer.”

Additional Information

As a proud member of the Pon Holdings family, Cannondale benefits from the strong foundation and extensive network of one of the Netherlands' largest family-owned businesses, as well as the largest bike portfolio in the world: Pon.Bike, including brands like Gazelle, Santa Cruz, Cervélo, Kalkhoff, Focus, Urban Arrow, Veloretti, and Swapfiets. Being a part of Cannondale means being part of a dynamic and forward-thinking organization backed by the strength and stability of Pon Holdings.