Optical Engineer ref. Y/02/12

Company profile:
Working as a high tech professional within Yacht means you will work on interesting and challenging long term projects for our clients in the Dutch “Brainport” Eindhoven region. This region is considered to be the smartest region in the world! Our scope of clients are high tech companies that work on the cutting edge of their expertise. To give you an example of our portfolio: ASML, Philips Healthcare, Philips Lighting, Philips Research, TNO, FEI company, Anteryon and many others.
Yacht is a renowned supplier of highly educated (bachelor or higher) professionals who’ll work on site and innovate together with our customers for smart solutions. Being a daughter of the world wide Randstad group we have an extensive network of clients and professionals.
Are you willing to work in the smartest region of the world on the cutting edge of science? In that case Yacht is the right match for you!

The position:
Great job opportunities in The Netherlands for optical engineers for important players in the high tech sector. We offer challenging assignments for research and development of a diverse range of products such as human care products, bio-medical instrumentation, molecular diagnostics, space applications, displays, LED’s and lasers. Every calibration specialist, optical designer, optical engineer or optical system engineer with experience and interest in one of these fields is welcome to apply.

The requirements and competencies:

We are looking for engineers that:
• Have a bachelor, master or PhD in (Applied) Physics.
• Are experienced in radiometry, interferometry, lasers, sequential optics, photonic devices, fiber optics or in building advanced optical setups - knowledge with alignment plan and adjusting.
• Have design experience with tools such as Lighttools, Zemax, Code5, etc.
• Have knowledge of statistics.
• Are strong experimentalists.
• Are accurate in their work and result oriented.
• Have a pro-active approach and critical attitude.
• Are self reliant and can function well in a team.
• Are strong communicators, customer oriented and show entrepreneurship.
• Are eager to learn.

Our offer: Continuance, a strong professional network and personal development
We will challenge you to grow on both personal and technical level. We’ll support you to achieve this by offering a personal coach and the possibility to follow diverse courses and trainings via our highly recommended Yacht Academy. We’ll offer interesting benefits and a market conform salary. The strength of Yacht Technology is that you’ll become a team member of a specific unit that fits your education, career path and competencies, so you interact to colleagues from Yacht in your own technology language! This keeps your knowledge up-to-date and challenges you on a regular base!