Lead Engineer Electronics Maassluis • Lely

At Lely, innovation is at the core of everything we do. Our mission is to make the lives of dairy farmers easier and more sustainable, and we believe that smart electronics are essential to achieving that. As Lead Engineer Electronics, you’re not only guiding the design and development of electronic systems—you’re helping shape the future of high-tech dairy farming.

You’ll be leading a talented and diverse team of electronic engineers within our Competence Center Electronics & Platforms. From juniors just starting out to seasoned professionals, your team relies on your technical direction and motivational leadership. Together, you’ll cover the entire development cycle—from first concepts to product validation.

In this role, you are the bridge between strategic ambitions and technical execution. You collaborate with departments across Lely, ensuring integration, innovation, and impact in everything you develop.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Leading the development and testing of electronic systems for our agricultural machinery.
• Managing and mentoring a team of 7 to 12 engineers with varying levels of experience.
• Stimulating innovation and applying the latest technologies to enhance our product portfolio.
• Ensuring cross-functional collaboration for seamless integration of electronics in our systems,
• Driving improvements in product performance, reliability, and efficiency, while maintaining the life-cycle of our products.
• Supporting both the technical growth and career development of your team members.
• Steer and interact with our external suppliers and partners, supporting our supply chain departments.

This unique role blends visionary leadership with hands-on engineering. You won’t just manage projects—you’ll help set the direction for future generations of sustainable, farmer-focused technology.

Opportunities for Growth: This position offers significant growth opportunities, with the potential to grow to a head function within 2-3 years. We are committed to supporting your professional development and providing a clear career path to leadership roles.

You bring technical excellence and a natural leadership style. You enjoy guiding a team through complex challenges and share our passion for sustainable innovation. You also bring:

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electronics Engineering or a related field.
• At least 10 years of experience in designing and developing electronic systems, ideally within a machine building or embedded systems environment.
• A minimum of 5 years in a leadership role, such as Team Lead or Senior Engineer with direct reports.
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and coach individual engineers in their professional development.
• Strong problem-solving skills, a structured approach, and excellent communication abilities.
• The ability to collaborate effectively across departments and translate technical developments into impactful products.

To address the food demand and challenge for 2050, it is crucial to handle people, animals, and the environment responsibly. For us, this means being a reliable long-term partner for our customers and passing on the world to the next generation through sustainable product development. You can contribute to realizing this dream.

What can you expect in your role as a Lead Electronics Engineer?

• Working in an international work environment within one of the most innovative organizations in the Netherlands and also the largest robot producer in Europe. 
• Excellent employment conditions, including up to 8 weeks of vacation.
• A full-time salary scale between €6300 and €8000 gross per month. Where we would like to see a growth option within the scale. 
• Opportunities for growth where you are in charge of your own development. 
• Space and freedom to innovate, bring in new ideas, and undertake initiatives. We not only offer this, but we also genuinely expect it. It's up to you to come up with ideas and implement them. 
• A team with enthusiastic, helpful colleagues, collaborating with product development, procurement, and other stakeholders. 
• Our Lely Academy offers various training programs, such as personality training or more job-relevant training. If you want to develop yourself but it's not in the curriculum, you discuss it with your manager. 
• The #FitatLely program with our own Lely Gym. A volleyball court, basketball court, football table, and ping pong table where you can challenge your colleagues or take a break from work. 
• Lease-a-Bike scheme to lease a new bike affordably. 
• Additionally, enjoy the services and wide range of coffee and tea from our personal barista at the Lely Campus, who makes the tastiest cappuccinos from fresh milk, directly from our own farmer from the Lely Orbiter, for example. 
• A healthy work-life balance with a hybrid policy where you are minimum 3 days on Campus. This is flexible and can be arranged in consultation with your manager. Prefer more time on our modern Campus? You are always welcome (between 06:00 a.m. and 08:00 p.m.).
• Moreover, we love to celebrate. Whether it's an anniversary or our Christmas party, at Lely, we know how to celebrate! For a feel of the atmosphere, check out this video: 

If you want to know more about working at Lely or about the vacancy, please contact me or respond via the button.

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We appreciate the interest, but we recruit all our candidates directly. We understand that as intermediaries, you want to present candidates for our great positions and contribute to our ambitions, but this is not how we have set up our recruitment process. This means that all unsolicited profiles offered on Lely vacancies will be treated as direct applications.

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.