Product / Project Engineer (Mechanical Engineering)
BlueHeart Energy Heemskerk
What is required?
- Master degree Mechanical Engineering
- Experience with mass production techniques of for example heat exchanges and technical calculations
- Creative and good with suppliers on a technical and commercial level
- Dutch and proficient command of the English language preferred
- EU working permit preferred
- Able to work independent and in a team
- Able to think outside of the box
What will you get?
- €3.000 - €5.000 gross p/m
- Phantom-share bonus system
- 40 hour workweek
- 25 vacation days
- Laptop, simcard for EU & US, and hybrid working
What will you do?
- 35% Designing suitable concepts and solutions
- 35% Finding and cooperating with suppliers
- 15% Debating requirements with the team
- 10% Summarizing, explaining and documenting conclusions
- 5% Project management
This vacancy has been created based on interviews with employees to help you get a realistic preview of the job.
Vacancy
As a Product/Project Engineer at Blue Heart Energy, you are responsible for moving product optimisations into production. You work on component level that is used for our heat pumps. You manage aspects including development, calculations, production, theory and research. You work with suppliers and write specifications and documentation to control the development.
You look at new concepts and solutions and research them thoroughly, together with an (external) engineering team. The goal is to find multiple suppliers that can be valuable for the production of the heat pump. Therefore, it is important that you have strong communication skills, so that you are able to explain the added value of Blue Heart Energy and the product to these suppliers. And you discuss with the suppliers whether their technology can be applied to our product and how.
When you have designed and optimized the concept together with the supplier(s), you present that to the project team or steering board so that the actual development can begin. You also take a part in this development stage and testing solutions, but the focus lies on coming up with better solutions together with the project team and the suppliers.
You are part of the Engineering team and work closely together with, the Sales team and the Research team.
If you'd like to contribute to a start up that is currently shifting from development to production phase, and you find it challenging to think beyond the borders and add values from previous experiences, then this is the job for you.
Working week

Arwah Taha
On an enjoyable day, I have enough time to take in what has been said in a meeting and act on it.
A less enjoyable day is one full of meetings. Because of this, I cannot work on anything in-depth.
- 09:00
- 10:00
- 11:00
- 12:00
- 13:00
- 14:00
- 15:00
- 16:00
- 17:00
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- Lunch
- Meeting with supplier
- Team meeting
- Debating requirements
- Reaching out to potential suppliers
- Timing plant and product quality for multiple components
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- Lunch
- Company meeting
- Meeting with supplier
- Project meeting
- Writing and monitoring components and system requirements
- Looking at suppliers' quotations
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- Lunch
- Digital meeting with supplier
- Debating requirements
- Researching suitable concepts and technologies
- Debating requirements
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- Lunch
- Meeting with supplier
- Steering meeting
- Researching suitable concepts and technologies
- Design work in CAD
- Setting FMEA
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- Lunch
- Digital meeting with supplier
- Presenting results
- Preparing presentation
- Researching suitable concepts and technologies
- Working on bill of materials (BOM)
Firsthand experience
Growth
The growth path at Blue Heart Energy is not fixed. The company expects to grow very quickly in the coming years, which wil give opportunities all those who want it. BHE supports training and courses, and sharing knowledge is very important among employees. The main advantage of the start up phase is that you can create your own job. If Blue Heart Energy grows fast, you grow with them.
Working at BlueHeart Energy
BlueHeart Energy was founded in 2016 to apply thermoacoustics as a technology in heat pumps and other applications as a replacement of compression technology. Thermoacoustics is a disruptive approach to generate heat and cold, with potential to revolutionize the whole industry. Over the past seven years, BHE has developed a thermoacoustic engine to power heat pumps and airco systems in residential buildings and other (industrial) applications. This so called 'Blue Heart' of a heat pump is sold to manufacturers. We are continuous improving the 'Blue Heart' with new developed and optimizations. As well we will develop different products over time. Besides this, we will set up our production facility, strengthen the relationships with our customers (OEM's and ODM's) and set up pilot projects in houses and other (industrial) applications and monitor these.
- Headquarters in Heemskerk
- 45 employees
- Active in more than 10 countries
- 20% / 80%
- Average age 38 years
- Casual
- Hybrid working