Production Engineer

📍 Location: JBT Marel - Glinde

🕒 Employment Type: Full-Time, onsite

💼 Department: Prepared Foods – Tipper Tie 

💥 Lead the Future of Work at JBT Marel

The Tipper Tie location in Glinde is a key innovation and production hub dedicated to delivering advanced closure and packaging solutions for the global food processing industry. At its core, the site specializes in high-performance clipping machines, consumables, and integrated automation systems designed to ensure product safety, consistency, and efficiency across applications such as meat, poultry, dairy, and plant-based products.

Driven by continuous innovation, the Glinde team focuses on developing smart, reliable solutions that enhance production throughput while reducing waste and operational costs. By combining precision engineering with customer-centric design, Tipper Tie enables food processors to streamline operations, maintain the highest hygiene standards, and rapidly adapt to evolving market demands.

The added value lies in delivering end-to-end solutions—from equipment and clips to service and digital support—that optimize performance, maximize uptime, and help customers bring high-quality, secure products to market faster and more sustainably.

We are looking for a hands-on Production Engineer / Mechanical Engineer who will:

• Optimize and maintain our existing production equipment and processes
• Design and update machine parts and convert old / hand drawings into proper 3D models
• Drive process improvements, automation and innovation projects
• Act as a technical bridge between production, operations, quality and sales, ensuring our products and capabilities match market and customer needs

The role is almost 100% on-site in Glinde, working very closely with operators and mechanics on the shop floor.

In this role you are the technical backbone of our clip production in Glinde. You turn old machines and hand drawings into modern, efficient, well-documented equipment. You spend your time where the action is – directly in production with operators and mechanics – and use your mechanical know‑how and SolidWorks skills to improve machines, reduce waste, and prepare our site for the next generation of automation and products.

Typical daily to‑do’s

• Be on the shop floor, talk with operators/mechanics, understand issues and ideas
• Analyze downtime, scrap and bottlenecks and define concrete improvement measures
• Use SolidWorks to model and update machine parts and convert old/hand drawings
• Plan and support modifications and upgrades of existing presses and equipment
• Evaluate and implement automation/innovation ideas with internal and external partners
• Align with quality and sales so that machine capabilities match customer and market needs
• Document changes and ensure that drawings and technical data are always up to date

We encourage each of our 12,000+ employees to bring their unique self to work and aim to make everyone feel recognized, valued and free to explore their potential. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture and welcoming new colleagues from all walks of life. You will recognize in yourself that you:

• Have an engineering degree (or equivalent technical background), for example:  Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Automation / Electrical Engineering 
• Located in or near Glinde
• Hands-on experience with industrial machinery / production lines
• Strong experience with 3D CAD specifically SolidWorks (or similar)
• Ability to design and modify machine parts and assemblies
• Experience with production/industrial machinery (maintenance, improvement, or design)
• Able to analyze and improve production processes (productivity, quality, waste reduction, uptime)
• Fluent German (daily communication with operators, mechanics, and internal stakeholders)

Experience with:

• Presses and forming of aluminum or similar metal-forming processes
• Automation / robotics and integration of such systems into production lines
• Project management with external engineering firms, machine suppliers, or automation partners
• Food processing / food packaging industry (understanding of sector-specific requirements)
• Experience in modernizing old machines and drawings (e.g., converting hand drawings to 3D models, upgrading legacy equipment)
• Exposure to continuous improvement methods (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma – even at a basic level)
• Ability to support quality with simple fixtures or devices to speed up measurements and checks

We are the kind of people who find purpose in creating things. Our mission is to transform the future of food by creating a world where quality food is produced sustainably and affordably. Being the world leader in advanced food processing solutions, we’re in the unique position to make it happen–but we need individuals with diverse perspectives and skills to help us get the most out of this opportunity.

There’s nothing like the feeling you get when you do something worthwhile for a living. That said, coming home from work knowing you made a difference is just one of the great things you can experience at JBT Marel. You can expect:

• Freedom to take initiative and make a real impact in a growing global business
• An environment of trust and respect with space to explore and fail
• A collaborative, inclusive team culture with international cooperation
• Continuous learning through our advanced learning platform, with unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning and Busuu language learning
• All the tools you need to succeed: laptop, iPhone, and a fully equipped home office
• An environment built on trust and respect, with room to explore, learn, and even fail
• To get a career instead of a job. We have many opportunities for internal growth; and we encourage it!

We’re excited to learn how you can contribute to our mission of smarter, safer food inspection. Apply now and join a team transforming the future of food processing.

📧 Questions? Contact: Maarten Krepel – [email protected] 

🌐 Learn more at:  jbtmarel.com

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JBT Marel is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in the workplace. We encourage all qualified individuals to apply.

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