Automation Engineer for 3D metal printing

You will have an important impact on the excellence of our research and contribute to the growth of the AMRL team (https://avrg.vub.be/research/core-themes/additive-manufacturing/ ) of the Mechanical Engineering department of the VUB. In collaboration with our Post Doc. team and the professors, you will support the PhD students in developing measurement systems for advanced monitoring and control solutions.

Our research environment is situated in the capital of Europe, Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering Campus, Pleinlaan 2, Brussels (http://www.vub.ac.be/english/infoabout/campuses/index.html ).

You will receive also the opportunity to extend the required skills and capabilities to support the different researchers. You will also be involved with further required investements to pursue the ambitions of the additive manufacting research lab and its partners.

A selection of your tasks:

• Implementation, maintenance and development of state-of-the-art hybrid manufacturing research infrastructure.
• Implementation and development of new sensor and data acquisition solutions for monitoring and eventually control of hybrid manufacturing process.
• Configuring and programming of PLC and CNC controllers from Bosch and Siemens.
• Propose, design and implement hardware modifications for the hybrid additive-subtractive research platform to enhance part quality and consistency.
• Improve safety aspects to further profesionalise our research infrastructure.
• Support researchers to implement new monitoring solutions or practical experiments in an efficient manner.

For this function, our Etterbeek Campus in Brussels will serve as your home base.