Workshop - Lab Technician

We’re on a mission to accelerate the energy transition with sustainable home energy for all and it’s our goal to help 3 million households transition by 2030. That is why we're seeking a highly motivated and ambitious person that’s not afraid to make their hands dirty and make a real dent in the climate change challenge that we are already facing. Are you ready to rise to the challenge?

As a Workshop - Lab Technician, you'll oversee workshop/lab operations, including setup, maintenance, and inventory management. You'll lead the assembly of prototypes and support testing activities, ensuring product quality and innovation. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you'll play a pivotal role in driving our mission towards sustainable energy solutions.

What you will do:

• Setting up and organizing our workshop and lab from scratch, ensuring a conducive environment for innovation and experimentation.

• Carefully selecting, ordering, and maintaining tooling, equipment, and parts, ensuring we have the necessary resources to drive our projects forward.

• Taking ownership of prototype builds, test rigs, and complete assemblies, integrating mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic components with precision.

• Providing crucial support for mechanical prototyping processes, which may involve tasks such as machining, welding, painting, full assembly, support with 3D printing among others.

• Ensuring comprehensive documentation for prototypes, including meticulous traceability of components and various setups.

• Assisting with testing activities and ensuring our products meet rigorous performance standards.

• Supporting investigation of quality issues and refurbishing equipment when needed.

• Managing inventory, ordering supplies, and overseeing proper warehousing, with a keen eye on budget control, expense tracking, and maintaining a well-organized inventory.

• Collaborating closely with a cross-functional team, including engineers, designers, and product managers, to bring concepts to reality.

• Maintaining the highest standards of organization and cleanliness, following 5S principles to optimize workflow and efficiency.

• Ensuring health and safety in the workplace.

• Self-Starter Mentality: Demonstrated ability to work independently and take initiative, with the drive and resourcefulness to set up a workshop/lab from scratch

• Hands-on Experience: Previous experience in workshop or lab environments, with a strong understanding of workshop operations, tooling, and equipment maintenance.

• Technical Skills: Proficiency in mechanical prototyping techniques such as machining, welding, painting, and 3D printing, along with the ability to troubleshoot and repair equipment.

• Organizational Skills: Excellent organizational abilities to manage inventory, order supplies, and maintain a well-organized workspace, with a keen eye for detail.

• Collaborative Nature: Strong teamwork and communication skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, contributing to the development and refinement of products.

• Adaptability: Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, with a proactive approach to problem-solving and a willingness to take ownership of tasks.

Why Quatt:

• An opportunity to be a part of a fast-growing, ambitious scaleup on the mission to fight climate change.

• Personal development, freedom, and career growth opportunities.

• An open organizational culture, where you can hang out and discuss ideas with everyone, from installer to founder.

• Flexibility to work at the office and from home (after the initial training) and possibility to work abroad one month per year, based on good performance.

• Everything you need to get your job done like a laptop, workstation, and tools.

• 25 days of holidays.

• Travel allowance.

About Quatt

Quatt is an ambitious scaleup that was founded in 2021 by two entrepreneurs and brothers from the Netherlands. Our goal is to accelerate the transition to sustainable heating in the Netherlands and abroad. Our first product is a smart, hybrid heat pump for the Dutch market.

The Dutch government is strongly incentivizing 8 million homeowners to get rid of natural gas and start heating sustainably within the next few decades. Unfortunately, the current pace of heat pump installations is far too low. Therefore, Quatt is improving the overall customer experience, adding smart control software, simplifying the installation job and, last but not least, greatly enhancing the aesthetics. By doing so, we want to increase adoption by an order of magnitude.

We are developing a highly advanced control system based on several AI technologies, like Machine learning and Deep learning. This system enables us to operate our heat pumps, in conjunction with already installed natural gas heaters, in the most cost- or energy-efficient way, at any given day. We estimate this can reduce heating costs by about 20%. By combining this with D2C sales & installation, Quatt is aiming to reach a payback time of 3-4 years; and thus a very quick uplift in sales.

For recruitment agencies:

Thank you for expressing your interest. Please know that we do not collaborate with recruitment agencies. Our internal recruitment team is solely responsible for identifying and selecting candidates for our roles. While we appreciate your enthusiasm to contribute as an intermediary, our current recruitment process does not involve external agencies, and we do not engage with them.