Head HVAC Engineering

Are you the driving force who will support us in realising greenhouses in challenging climates?

  • Van der Hoeven
  • 39 hours
  • HBO

The role: Head HVAC Engineering

As Discipline Head of HVAC/Climate Engineering, you will lead the Climate Engineering team. Together with your team, you are responsible for delivering all our climate projects on time, correctly, and with the right specifications. These include small-scale local projects, but mainly large-scale international turn-key projects. 

This involves the overall climate-technical design of the greenhouse, including detailed and production drawings that integrate all expert disciplines, resulting in material lists for procurement. You are also capable of contributing to the detailed design of climate-technical installations within the greenhouse.

You will coordinate and stimulate the development of your engineers and support the structuring of their work and associated processes. Based on your expertise, you will provide technical guidance to your colleagues, set priorities, and monitor project schedules. Collaboration is key—you will work closely with the team leads of other engineering disciplines as well as the Projects, Design, Procurement, and Realization departments.

Your primary tasks will include:

  • Lead group of HVAC/Climate engineers and work preparators
  • Enable professional and personal development of your team
  • Providing strategic suggestions to the Manager Engineering
  • Optimising work methods and processes

Nice to meet you

Van der Hoeven Horticultural Projects. The future of horticulture technology.

The world is realizing that we need to preserve our planet and that it requires a much more sustainable approach on agriculture. Also, the world deserves access to healthy food. Therefore, we design, build and operate tailor made horticultural solutions for our customers, with a reduced footprint in natural resources, water, CO2 and pesticides. We continuously invest in R&D to strengthen our propositions towards our customers. This vision allows us to operate our business successfully for a better future.

Your profile

  • Technical Master’s or Bachelor’s degree
  • Proficiency in Dutch and English
  • Leadership experience / managing a team
  • Independent and responsible
  • Solution-oriented
  • Flexible
  • Experience as an Engineer in an (international) project environment
  • Experience with AutoCAD and SolidWorks
  • Strong social skills

What to expect?

At Van der Hoeven & Enthoven-Patron, we believe that teamwork is crucial to our success. We prioritize helping and supporting each other, sharing our knowledge and experiences to achieve our goals together.

We are committed to investing in our employees' future, which is why we have developed the VDH Academies, an internal platform for knowledge-sharing and there are plenty of career opportunities. Additionally, we provide free work fruit to promote a healthy work-life balance and wellbeing.

We also value having fun together as a team. Our staff association organizes various activities throughout the year, such as office drinks, barbecues, and events for children during the holiday season. Our office space also has areas dedicated to socializing and games, including a pool table.

Got your interest?

Let’s start our future together!

Are you interested in this position and do you recognize yourself in the profile we’re looking for? Then send your cover letter and CV to our HR department at: hr@vanderhoeven.nl. If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Nice to meet you

Marleen
van Goch

HR Advisor

Heleen
van der Vaart

HR Advisor