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Façade Expert

We are looking for a facade expert to reinforce our Facade Engineering team.

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Location(s)

Merelbeke, Brussels

Posted on

28/04/2023

Reference

FAC-EXP

Key responsibilities

  • Responsible for façade-technical design and optimization of facade concepts.
  • Collaborating within a multidisciplinary team and working together with architects, clients and building professionals.
  • Participate to design workshops to optimize cladding solutions for the project.
  • Sketch details to develop façade concepts.
  • Value engineering.
  • Good knowledge of façade materials, technical performances and innovations in the façade industry.
  • Elaborating principal façade drawings, technical specifications and reports for tender documentation.
  • Evaluating façade contractor proposals.
  • Witnessing testing and preparing technical reports.
  • Carrying out factory visits, site inspections.

Profile

  • Experience in Façade Industry or relevant facade engineering experience.
  • Specialist in one or more disciplines within the broad field of façade engineering: Façade Design; Building Physics, Structural Engineering, Value Engineering, Cost estimations, Maintenance strategies, Buildability, …
  • Able to act as exponents of today´s Façade Technology.
  • You have a Master of Science in Civil Engineering, Master of Science in Civil and Architectural Engineering, master of architecture, possibly with a relevant postgraduate degree (Master Façade Engineering) - or equivalent experience.
  • This vacancy is open to experienced engineers, who take the challenge to further expand our recently established Façade Engineering cell with their expertise in façade-technical design.
  • Sketching skills are a plus.
  • Experienced knowledge in design software, building physics software tools and/or structural analysis tools for façade design are a plus.
  • Hands-on, independent attitude.
  • Creative thinking.
  • Motivated, enthusiastic and social.
  • Living in Belgium or interested in moving to Belgium.

What can VK do for you?

You’ll be welcomed to a rapidly expanding international company. Entrepreneurship and autonomy are part of our company culture and we constantly make strategic choices to take responsibility for the planet and the people on it. That means our employees too!

What we have to offer:

Work-life balance under control thanks to hybrid working and flexible working hours

Inspiring atmosphere in an international setting

Multidisciplinary teams with in-house expertise

Chances to educate yourself on the job and share knowledge

Attractive salary

Numerous benefits like meal vouchers, group insurance, hospitalisation insurance

Extensive holiday arrangement with extra ADV holidays

MyBenefits@VK allows you to exchange a part of your wages to an option of your choice: lease a bicycle, extra holidays, purchase of multimedia devices or additional insurance

Do you want to transform tomorrow with ingenuity, eye for detailed aesthetics, and a sense of responsibility?

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