Pre Commissioning Product Expert

Job Description

The Product Expert – Pre-Commissioning is the key player in creating, maintaining, and supporting a correct process flow for preparing project specific hardware and software as much as possible in-house before they are shipped to the customer, ensuring a 'plug-and-play' experience on-site. This process is referred to as Pre-Commissioning.

Acting as part of the Product Expert team — the bridge between R&D and the field — the role guides the resources executing pre-commissioning, owns the optimization of the pre-commissioning process, and builds the tooling required to scale it efficiently.

• Responsible for motivating/ensuring everyone works safely and according to the stow-Movu's QSHE standards to ensure that all work is done in a safe, efficient, and qualitative way.
• Complies with the attitude of Lean and continuous improvements in the organization.
• Responsible for ensuring that all executed activities and processes are in compliance with stow-Movu's QSHE standards, policies, instructions, and local legislation.

Pre-Commissioning Process Ownership

• Proactively collects project information for every new project, ensuring the best possible project preparation.
• Builds a thorough understanding of project-specific parameters, enabling resources to prepare the correct configuration files or hardware/software setup for each project.
• Acts with a “timely delivery on-site” and a “project-specific plug-and-play” approach.
• Guides the resources executing pre-commissioning and provides all necessary information and tools to prepare project specific hardware and software correctly.
• Organizes and maintains the pre-commissioning zone efficiently.

Process Optimization & Standardization

• Owns the optimization and maintenance of the process flows required for pre-commissioning.
• Leads the day-to-day execution of pre-commissioning, delegating available resources and enforcing techniques consistent with those used in the field, with support from fellow Product Experts.
• Identifies and implements process improvements, given the relative maturity of the pre-commissioning function.

Quality & Documentation

• Maintains a minimum and constant pre-commissioning quality across all projects.
• Maintains a disciplined registration of all project-specific information.

Asset Management

• Sets up and maintains an asset management protocol according to the ISO 27001 standard.
• Ensures the installed base per customer is tracked and readily available from pre-commissioning onward.

Tooling & Automation

• Automates parts of the pre-commissioning process where possible, to support higher project volume within the same time frame.
• Designs tools that are simple and reliable enough for any available resource to use without extensive training.
• Ensures all tooling is documented and remains maintainable over time.
• Shares tooling ideas, including their benefits and ROI, with R&D to further optimize the way of working.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Acts as part of the bridge between R&D and the field, contributing expert-level knowledge to support correct delivery of technical on-site requirements.
• Coordinates with Warehouse/Operations to ensure timely delivery of the products needed for pre-commissioning.
• Collaborates with fellow Product Experts to align pre-commissioning techniques with field practices.
• Maintains a dashboard to keep the Team Leads, Commissioning Manager, and Director Project Execution informed of relevant pre-commissioning information on a periodic basis.
• Organizes, together with Operations, which retrofit kits can be proactively installed by Operations personnel.
• Checks which cross-departmental optimizations or preparations are possible during the pre-commissioning phase.
• Proactively assesses short, mid, and long-term pre-commissioning requirements (e.g. number of shuttles/devices to be commissioned), together with Operations.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a technical field (e.g. Electromechanical, Electronics, IT), or equivalent through experience.
• Understands the importance of correct flows and processes, and how to design them.
• Good knowledge of Dutch and English; French required.
• Computer skills: MS Office and Teams, with Python knowledge (for tooling), TwinCAT, and networking.
• Strong communication skills.
• Analytical mind with a critical mindset.
• Teamplayer.
• Sociable, eager to learn, driven, and positive attitude.
• Proactive mentality, able to take ownership and drive initiatives independently.

Additional Information

What do we offer you?

• You will work closely together with other rack stars in an open and enthusiastic environment.
• The necessary freedom and possibility to take initiative.
• An intensive training by experienced people.
• An attractive salary in an international environment with many benefits:
  • Company car with fuel card/charging pass
  • Group & health insurance
  • Meal vouchers (8€)
  • Eco vouchers (250€)
  • Net allowances
  • CAO90 Bonus
  • Laptop
  • iPhone + subscription
  • 20 days of vacation plus 12 extra days for working a full year on 40h-workweek instead of 38h (32 leave days in total)
• Satellite office in Berchem ( Antwerp )

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