Mechanical Design Engineer

🚀 We're Hiring: Mechanical Design Engineer

That feeling when you work with machines others can only read about..

📍 Location: Aarhus

🕒 Employment Type: Hybrid, Full-Time

💼 Department: Poultry – Secondary Fresh

JBT Marel is a leading global provider of high‑tech solutions for customers worldwide in the food and beverage industries and continuously innovate to stay at the forefront of technology. We continuously transform the future of food through collaboration and innovation, bringing new innovations to the market, becoming our customers preferred partner in solutions for a sustainable food industry. Our Aarhus site plays a key role within the Poultry division, where engineering expertise meets real‑world food processing challenges.

🔍 About the Role

As our new Mechanical Engineer you will, together with your colleagues, be focusing on our Aarhus portfolio that includes portion cutters, robots and batching equipment. You will be a part of a large business unit that is located in both Denmark, Sweeden, Germany, Iceland, UK, Slovakia, The Netherlands and USA. In your daily work you will be a part of a multidisciplinary team of about 12 members based in Aarhus and Germany. As a Mechanical Engineer you can use all your creativity to create innovative design solutions that will improve our equipment in performance, robustness and cost. If you like to be in a position where you can turn ideas into mechanical designs and industrial solutions, this is the perfect role for you.

If you’re driven by technology, innovation, and making a global impact, we want to hear from you!

🧠 Key Responsibilities

Your daily to-do list will look like this:

• Be responsible for maintaining and sustaining a group of equipment, driving the necessary design updates to continuously improve that equipment.
• Be responsible for the correctness of the technical documentation to enable flawless communication with the rest of the organization.
• Be responsible for making sure our equipment stays up to date with the latest safety requirements and relevant international standards.
• In cooperation with a multidisciplinary project team, efficiently configure, design and develop all mechanical aspects of solutions we deliver to our customers. This includes creating bills of materials, assemblies, components, drawings and documentation as required in our 3D CAD and PDM system according to the Product Development Process (PDP).
• Paying particular attention to the implementation of the functional, hygienic and cleaning aspects, reliability, safety, production technologies and cost price.
• Be responsible for timely delivery of the specifications needed for the delivered solutions

🛠️ What kind of person are you?

We encourage each of our 12,000+ employees to bring their unique self to work and aim to make everyone feel recognized, valued and free to explore their potential. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture and welcoming new colleagues from all walks of life. You will recognize in yourself that you:

• Hold a degree within engineering such as mechanical, mechatronics or other technical fields
• Have some years’ experience in the engineering of technical systems from a similar industry, preferably the food industry
• Are working structured with an eye for the detail
• Are familiar with CAD and PDM/PLM tools
• Have good English skills, both written and verbal
• Are a team player with the ability to communicate within a multidisciplinary team
• Enjoy making sure that your tasks are completed on time

The job requires the ability to travel on an as-needs basis which is estimated to 5-10% of your time.

🏬 Why Join Us?

At JBT Marel, what we do matters. Our people make the difference, and their contribution drives our success. Our purpose is to transform the future of food, guiding our vision to be the leading partner in sustainable food industry solutions. There’s nothing like the feeling you get when you do something worthwhile for a living. That said, coming home from work knowing you made a difference is just one of the great things you can experience at JBT Marel. You can expect:

• Freedom to take initiative and make a real impact in a growing global business
• An environment of trust and respect with space to explore and fail
• A network of specialists who are always willing to help
• A healthy work-life balance and flexible working arrangements
• Endless possibilities to keep learning: access to Linkedin Learning and internal learning portals
• Work in an inclusive, international team culture where collaboration and innovation are key.
• To get a career instead of a job. We have many opportunities for internal growth; and we encourage it!

📩 How to Apply

We’re excited to learn how you can contribute to our mission of smarter, safer food inspection. Apply now and join a team transforming the future of food processing. 

📧 Questions? Contact: Maarten Krepel – maarten.krepel@marel.com 

🌐 Learn more at:  jbtmarel.com

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Connect with Talent Acquisition Specialist: www.linkedin.com/in/maartenkrepel

Marel is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in the workplace. We encourage all qualified individuals to apply.