How do you ensure that innovative mechanical solutions are not only technically strong, but are also successfully developed and applied in practice? As Team Lead Mechanical Engineering, you combine your technical expertise with a clear people management responsibility. You lead a team of 10 to 15 mechanical engineers and are responsible for their development, performance and deployment across different product development projects.
You conduct regular 1-on-1 meetings and performance reviews, discuss development and performance, and lead formal appraisal conversations. At the same time, you remain involved in the technical challenges within product development. You work in a project-driven matrix organization, where your engineers contribute to different projects and multidisciplinary teams. Together with project leaders and colleagues from disciplines such as software, electronics, systems engineering and testing, you set clear priorities and work towards concrete deadlines and deliverables.
In this way, you help ensure that high-quality mechanical solutions are developed to perform reliably under the demanding conditions of a dairy farm. From new concepts and prototypes to series production and improving existing products, you combine leadership with technical expertise and a strong understanding of how products are developed and manufactured.
Your main responsibilities include:
You are an experienced mechanical engineer and people manager who enjoys both technical product development and helping people grow. You are comfortable taking responsibility for an engineering team, setting clear expectations and supporting engineers in their performance and development. At the same time, you understand what it takes to work towards deadlines and concrete deliverables within a professional project environment.
You also bring:
Experience with or an affinity for robotics and automation is a plus. Knowledge of or experience with dairy farming can also help you quickly understand the environment in which our products are used every day.
Do you recognize yourself in the core of this role, but do not meet every single requirement? We still encourage you to apply.
Working at Lely means contributing to sustainable progress within one of the most innovative organizations in the Netherlands. You contribute to making the agricultural sector future-proof - and we make sure that you get all the space, resources and support you need to do so.
We are also proud that our efforts and vision have been rewarded by winning the Rotterdam Entrepreneur Award 2025!
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We appreciate the interest, but we are looking for all our candidates directly. We understand that you, as an intermediary, want to present candidates for our great positions and thus contribute to our ambitions, but this is not how we have set up our recruitment. This means that all unsolicited profiles offered on Lely vacancies will be treated as direct applications.
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At Lely, we believe in achieving a sustainable, profitable and agreeable future for dairy farmers by combining robotisation, engineering and farming expertise. It all started with a dream cherished by two brothers in Maassluis 75 years ago, and ever since, we have worked to become innovative market leaders in automated systems for dairy farmers across the globe. With a team of 2,500 professional specialists, we work constantly to bring about revolutionary solutions for the agro industry. We are based at our Maassluis Campus, a building which features the highest sustainability performance possible, not just in the Netherlands, but on a global scale. Our overall objective: making dairy farming interesting, also for the coming generations.