Company Description
A sustainable, profitable, and enjoyable future for dairy farmers by combining robotics, engineering, and farming expertise. That's what we believe in.
It all began 75 years ago with a dream of two brothers in Maassluis. Since then, we have been an innovative leader in automated systems for dairy farmers worldwide. With 2,500 specialized professionals, we constantly strive towards new agricultural revolutions. We operate not only from our Campus in Maassluis (the building with the highest sustainability performance in the Netherlands) but also from other international locations. Together, our aim is to make dairy farming interesting for the next generation.

Job Description
Lely has very innovative solutions for dairy farmers, such as the Astronaut milking robot. The Technical Service Support (TSS) department provides worldwide technical support to the 11 Lely Clusters (country organizations) and approximately 200 Lely Centers (sales & service points). As a (Junior) Solutions Engineer for the TSS Milking team, you will mainly be working with the Astronaut and other products within the Milking portfolio.
As part of the Long Term Impact team, you will focus on projects that have a duration of more than 6 months. This includes, among other things, the validation of new machines and (validation of) improvements to existing machines, as well as strategic long-term projects such as improving the way technicians perform preventive and corrective maintenance on the milking robots. You will collect relevant data, analyze it, and possibly develop new ways to convert this data into advice and actions for colleagues in the field.
You will work closely with various disciplines within Lely headquarters, Clusters, and Lely Centers, such as colleagues from the software team, data, product development, and proposition management to implement structural adjustments and test ideas and outcomes in practice. Good project management and stakeholder management skills are important here.
So, do you find it challenging to think about and work on the future of the Astronaut milking robot? And thereby have a real impact on dairy farmers and technician experience? And do you love a dynamic environment where no day needs to be the same? Then this is the job for you!

Qualifications
You have an affinity with the agricultural sector and an interest in technology. You possess strong analytical skills, are persistent, and can maintain a good overview in a dynamic and innovative environment.
Furthermore, you have:

• Higher professional/university level of working and thinking
• Relevant experience in analyzing and advising based on data, preferably in a technical environment
• Experience with project-based work
• You are currently living in the Netherlands and have excellent English language skills (spoken and written). Knowledge of the Dutch language is a plus.

Additional Information
An amazing job at an international company that is at the forefront of the agricultural sector to make the dairy farmer’s life easier, more sustainable and more enjoyable. This is your chance to share and once again enrich your specialized knowledge.

• Working in an international environment at one of the most innovative organizations in the Netherlands;
• Working at the hypermodern Lely Campus in Maassluis;
• Excellent working conditions, including 27 vacation days & 13 scheduled days off;
• A salary range between € 3500,- and € 5200,- gross per month, in relation to your knowledge and experience;
• An open working environment including flexible working hours and opportunities to work remotely;
• Freedom in organizing your own work;
• Good environment for personal development & growth;
• Our Lely Academy with a range of different training courses;
• #Fitat Lely program with our own Lely Gym where you can exercise for free, (online) sports lessons, masterclasses about working from home and other activities in the field of Body, Mind or Food.

...and its own barista on the Lely Campus who makes the best cappuccinos from fresh milk, straight from the farmer.
Recruitment & selection agency, consultancy and/or secondment agency?
We appreciate the interest, but we are seeking all our candidates directly. We understand that you, as an intermediary, want to present the candidates with our great positions and thus contribute to our ambitions, but this is not how we have organized our recruitment. This means that all unsolicited profiles offered on Lely vacancies will be treated as direct applications.