Are you passionate about coaching and guiding young people in becoming successful engineers in the labour market?

Are you also madly enthusiastic about engineering and design? And you enjoy conveying your knowledge to students? Then you're the person we're looking for!

We are looking for a colleague to reinforce our team.

As a teacher, you are part of a team of enthusiastic professionals who are jointly driven to provide our students with top-notch education. You will be working in the logistical heart of the Netherlands where there is always something happening. This means that our students are engaged in current societal issues and that we work very closely with the professional field. That makes your job fascinating, dynamic and relevant.

What will you do?

• You will teach this field in theory and practice in which you will apply various didactic methods to achieve this.
• You will intensively coach project groups and individual students while they study at the school, as well as during their work placement and final projects.
• You develop new educational material and new teaching methods.

What do we expect of you?

As a person:

• You are enthusiastic about conveying your knowledge, skills and experience to young people and to share these with your colleagues;
• You are able put yourself in the shoes of the target group and understand what motivates young people;
• You like working in a team;
• You challenge people to get the best out of themselves;
• You have a passion for engineering;
• You follow trends and developments and can respond to these.

In terms of education and experience:

• You have minimally completed an HBO study programme in mechanical engineering, marine engineering or aeronautical & aerospace engineering;
• You have at least 5 years of company experience in a technical environment with demonstrable experience as a constructor;
• You have demonstrable experience as an educator-instructor or in a similar function;
• You are skilled in using 3D CAD packages;
• You have knowledge about materials and production techniques;
• You have knowledge of the norms and guidelines relevant to the profession.

Information about this vacancy

Contract: temporary with prospect of permanent

Salary scale: scale 11 (min. € 3,658.64 – max. € 5,026.85)

Starting date: as soon as possible

Call deadline: 21 February 2021

What do we offer?

Do you consider personal growth and development just as important as we do? If so, we would like to meet you! We challenge you to develop your talents further and to contribute to our ambitions. In that context we will naturally support you. Therefore, we offer you a wide scope of career and development opportunities and we have extensive possibilities for a healthy and active lifestyle (Fontys Vitaal). Furthermore, we have an end-of-year bonus, a number of collective health insurance schemes, flexible working hours and leave regulations.

The work environment

Fontys University of Applied Sciences (Dutch: FHTenL) offers various bachelor's and master's degrees in technology (electrical engineering, mechatronics, mechanical engineering, industrial product design, and informatics) and logistics (including two study programmes: logistics & technical transport management and logistics & economics). The school currently has around 1250 students and 100 teachers.

More information is available at http://www.fontysvenlo.nl.

Is this a job for you?

If so, apply quickly! For specific questions, you can turn to Hans Sirks (teacher/coach), telephone +31 (0)8850 74912. Send your application to Marc Dessi (education manager). For information about the procedure, please turn to the Recruitment Office (P&O Department), telephone +31 (0)8850 75366.