Industrial Design Engineer

Full Time position

Are you the driven and experienced Industrial Design Engineer/Product Development Engineer that will help our team become stronger?

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Our Purpose

Your mission in life is to find your calling, purpose or Ikigai, now or later. The purpose of Logiqs is “Accelerate access to honest food”. What does that mean? We believe food scarcity globally can be eliminated, among others using Indoor or Vertical Farming.

Honest food means regenerative, scalable, consistent, healthy and affordable food. Enabled by technology but with human intentions and values, being fair to people and planet.

Our Culture

As part of our culture, we want to align ourselves as much as possible with the gaming mindset and values and infuse them into our workplace.

Work values like collaboration, tribe loyalty, self organization, short feedback loops, ambition, purpose, transparency and fast decisions. At Logiqs we’re not afraid of failing while trying to achieve meaningful goals. We’re just afraid of failing slowly.

Heroic Failure Awards

We are launching a heroic failure award which supports making unique and smart mistakes and even promoting it across the whole company, in order to learn as a tribe.

Failing is just one step closer to bigger success. We don’t blame and shame, we share, forgive, learn and love.

Institutional Yes

In most organizations it is easy for a manager to say no to a new idea. In our company, the team leader/decision factor has to explain by e-mail why he or she says no. In this way we ensure more ideas flourish from the bottom to the top. Our default is thus an institutional yes.

Our Ambitions

Even though our company has been around for more than 45 years, our ambitions are more comparable to ones of a start-up. We want to disrupt our industry and we fully understand that we can only achieve our goals though sustainable exponential growth. For us this also means an even bigger focus on sustainability, on quality and on collaboration. Our company fully embraces the need for a circular economy and we understand that we need to develop our solutions and services in a way that is regenerative, restorative, or reusable.

Our core values

Honest

What you see is what you get. At Logiqs we do business in an open and honest way. Completely transparent. Just as importantly, we do what we promise.

Of course, when making our products, we choose to use only high-quality, honest materials.

But honesty goes beyond that: with our products, we want to give every entrepreneur who wants to produce honest food the opportunity to actually do so.

Because we believe that everyone, anywhere in the world, is entitled to an honest livelihood.

Kind

At Logiqs, we think being kind to one another is really important.

We care for each other, as we care for our customers (who we actually mainly see as partners) and are respectful to the world around us.

We think collaboratively, we are solution-oriented and try to deal with each other and our environment in the most pleasant way possible.

Curious

We feel that curiosity is the fuel of every pioneer and that creativity arises when curiosity thrives.

We’re curious about the world around us, about our customers and what they want. We’re also curious about technology and about how we can best use technology to better understand plants and how to help people grow them better.

It is that drive that allows us to be constantly moving forward and figure out how we make something even better, even more efficient, even more accessible.

Proud

Last year we celebrated our 45th anniversary.

Our quality is something that’s been widely experienced by growers worldwide and it’s definitely something we’re proud of.

Time and time again, our team manages to come up with great innovations and then bring them to reality. So yeah, we are proud of that!

Proud of the beautiful products we make, proud of the company, of our amazing customers and partners and we’re especially proud of each other.

Responsible

With only one earth with many people and a limited amount of raw materials, each has its own responsibility for the future.

At Logiqs we all try to deal with this in the best possible way we can.

With attention and respect for the earth, for the customer and for each other.

At Logiqs, everyone needs to be able to feel good, thrive and grow. In addition, we feel responsible for what we do as a company: our customers need to know that they can count on us and that we do everything we can to serve them as well as possible.

How we are doing so far:

By being positive and friendly with one another, it’s so much easier for us to do difficult work, solve challenging issues and move forward towards our common goals.

In 2013 I had my first contact with Logiqs, when I got an internship during my engineering’s bachelor. One year later I started working full time at Logiqs as a design engineer and I haven’t looked back since. Now, after 7 years, I am the lead design engineer within the Mechanical Design and Engineering team.

In all this time that I’ve been working here, my work has never been boring and I feel I’ve not stopped growing personally or professionally.

I keep learning new things, new workflows and new skills and I get to design equipment that actually contributes to a sustainable future. Who wouldn’t love that?

Jasper van der Sluijs

Lead Design and layout engineer

I first started at Logiqs almost 9 years ago. It was my first job in the Netherlands and I can really say it was a really exciting and demanding experience from day one.

Looking back on it, in those times I was always out of my comfort zone, making mistakes and learning new thing each day.

Initially I was helping the software team test and deploy the Dat-A-Control software, but in time I switched over to the marketing side of the business, trying to help showcase the amazing project Logiqs was making better and help the company come in touch with more growers worldwide.

After a good few years of handling the marketing operations, 3D visualizations and website development, I was given a chance by management to develop proprietary online 3D design and sales tools for our company, becoming a Digital Product Owner.

I cannot begin to explain how grateful I am for all the chances I’ve been given at Logiqs, for the amazing colleagues I’ve had the chance to work with and for the awesome technology we get to design and build together.

And since we’ve started developing Vertical Farms, this has been taken to the next level. Having such a transformative purpose really changed my outlook on life and work and I can’t wait to see what we’ll achieve together in the next 10 years!

Adrian Tamplaru

Product Owner - Online 3D Design tools

Job profile:

Do you want to play a key role in the introduction of new products and systems that can have a large scale positive impact on the future of sustainable food production? Then you’re in the right place!

As an Industrial Design Engineer at Logiqs, you’ll be able to design, develop and industrialize the most innovative automated Vertical Farming solution in the world.

Who are you:

You’re the innovator we need if you:

connect with our purpose;
our values align with yours;
have hand-on experience in mechanical design and product industrialization, from design to manufacturing and have undergone at least one full production cycle (even if it was not in the lead role);
have a broad knowledge of mechanical principles and the ability to translate them into creative concepts and solutions;
have foundational knowledge about production processes, their limitations and possibilities;
are proficient in 3D design tools;
are comfortable with prototyping new designs;
have ambitions to build a strong interdisciplinary team that is capable of bringing new products to market;
possess a degree in the fields of Industrial Design/ Design Engineering field;
you are detail oriented, but you never lose sight of the big picture and can help organize your team in order to deliver maximum value to our customers;
have a design/development-process portfolio that helps us understand the processes, prototypes and creative thinking that led to these solutions;
have experience within the agricultural sector, although it is not a must. Affinity however is!
if you like working most of the time at the office surrounded by your colleagues.

Your responsibilities will be:

take into account the complete ‘product life cycle’ so as to understand the context, issues and opportunities;
maintain an overview of stakeholder interests and project status so that both you and management can make strategic decisions that have high impact;
evaluate issues and propose actionable resolutions to design problems
guide and coordinate design and execution efforts between internal teams and outside vendors including equipment specifications, flow of goods and process design;
create and apply concepts for optimizing component production relative to both quality and cost constraints;
design new systems and optimize existing ones with a focus on durability, maintainability;
help us make steps towards circular manufacturing practices.
design and oversee the implementation of automation solutions for our design, production and testing processes;

At Logiqs you have a lot of freedom in your workflow within the planning and safety regulations. There is always room for good ideas and ways of doing things better and we hope you’ll be actively trying to improve the way of working.

If you think you can contribute to our purpose to “Accelerate access to honest food” by helping us industrialize and scale up our designs, then we really want to meet you!

Mentoring and coaching from day 1 and a really friendly welcome from your team and everyone else.

Your first day at Logiqs

Your career at Logiqs

Be master of your own destiny and your own career. Personalized training budgets. Proactively monitor stress and well being (work-life balance included).
Build honest/quick feedback loops with the team and with end-users.

Mentoring and coaching from day 1 and a really friendly welcome from your team and everyone else.

Your first day at Logiqs

Your career at Logiqs

Be master of your own destiny and your own career. Personalized training budgets. Proactively monitor stress and well being (work-life balance included). Build honest/quick feedback loops with the team and with end-users

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Perks of the Job

Competitive Salary

Even though we’re a small company we do our best to have market conform salaries for our employees.

Good retirement plan

We have a good retirement plan with a high employer contribution.

Personalized training budget

We need every team member to become the best version of themselves if we are to succeed. So we put our money where our mouth is!

As many Vacation days as you need

From us you get 25 paid vacation days, but you always have the possibility to buy back some more vacation days if you’re planning a really long trip.

Monthly party/Beer on fridays

When it’s possible, we really like to spend time with eachother. We have lunch together and our cafeteria/bar is a great place to hang out.

Company Trips

From time to time we organize either activities like paintball or horse riding. If you’ve got cool ideas for activities, we’re looking forward to hearing them.