Allround Technician

What’s Cooking? is a European fresh Savoury food group headquartered in Belgium which commercialises in Europe and beyond a wide range of high-quality and innovative Savoury cold cuts, snacking and ready meal food products (also known from Come a casa®), and related services.
“Day by day, we make sustainable food second nature by increasing the world’s appetite for tasty, convenient meals, crafted with care both for the people and the planet”.

Our customers and consumers are always on our hungry minds when preparing our food products, as is the well-being of our approximately 2,500 employees from our headquarter, 12 industrial sites in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Poland, and the UK, and 7 sales offices.

What’s Cooking Group (previously named Ter Beke) exists for 75 years, is listed as family company on Euronext Brussels since 1986 (EBR: WHATS) and realised a turnover of EUR 832 million in 2023.

For our sites in Wijchen and Ridderkerk, we are looking for Allround Technicians to join our teams.

As an Allround Technician, you and your colleagues will be responsible for the flawless operation of our machinery and energy facilities. After a thorough induction period, you will make a crucial contribution to achieving our company's productivity and quality targets.

Your main tasks include:

• Fast and independent troubleshooting: You will repair interferences in the machinery and energy facilities and ensure that these solutions are preventively secured for the future.
• Contributing to new technical projects: You participate in the installation of new machines, often in collaboration with external contractors.
• Preventive and curative maintenance: As an expert, you take care of both preventive and curative maintenance of our installations.
• Keeping correct records: You record problems and their solutions, and make clear instructions.
• Execute maintenance plan: You are responsible for maintaining and implementing the maintenance plan.
• Collaborating with other departments: You work closely with colleagues in Production and report to the Maintenance Manager.

• Technical training and experience: You have a technical education (e.g. Electromechanics, Mechanical Engineering or Mechanical Techniques level 3/4 or equivalent courses) and have initial experience in a similar role.
• Working independently: With your technical background and experience, you can work independently and autonomously. Experience with packaging machines in the food sector is a plus.
• Knowledge of PLC and automation: Any knowledge of this is a plus.
• Sense of responsibility: You have a great sense of responsibility and constantly keep safety, quality, order and cleanliness in mind.
• Willingness to work in a cool environment: You have no problem working in a cool working environment (between 2 and 7 degrees Celsius).
• Flexibility in working hours: You are willing to work in 2 shifts (working hours from 06.00h-15.00h or from 15.00h-00.00h) and occasionally on Saturdays.
• Cooperation in shifts: Within the technical department, you will work in shifts, where you are never alone. You will always run in a group of three mechanics, allowing you to be learned quickly and never be alone.
• Language skills: You have a good knowledge of Dutch or English.

• Exciting work environment: You will join a stable, innovative Belgian food group with an international outlook.
• Warm welcome: Your colleagues are ready to welcome you with open arms and share their experience with you. A warm atmosphere and personal approach ensure that you are quickly on track.
• Opportunities for growth: you get the chance to learn and develop yourself. You will be guided and supported by our colleagues, with opportunities for growth based on your interests and abilities, so that you become an expert in your field. We want to invest heavily in you, think training and courses in and outside the Netherlands.
• Market-compliant salary package: You can count on an attractive salary package supplemented by 14% shift allowance, 24 holidays and a year-end allowance of 3.25%.
• Feeling at home: We value an open and informal corporate culture. At What's Cooking? we make sure you feel at home, are proud of what you do, and that we share our successes together.