The Product Manager is responsible for planning and executing the product all throughout the product lifecycle, including: collecting and prioritising product and customer requirements, defining the vision of the product and the close collaboration with engineering, sales, marketing and after-sales to ensure that the revenue and customer satisfaction targets are met. The Product Manager also ensures that the product supports the company’s strategy and its general objectives. In some way, they are the Product CEO.
Your purpose:
- To define the product strategy and roadmap
- To provide MRDs (Market Requirement Documents) and PRDs (Product Requirement Documents) with priority functionalities and the corresponding justifications
- To work with external third parties to evaluate possible licence partnerships and opportunities
- To develop the positioning of the product and to analyse the competition in close collaboration with the Marketing Manager
- To perform product demonstrations to Key Accounts
- To set the prices to achieve profitability and revenue targets
- To provide a monthly revenue forecast
- To develop sale tools and supports
- To propose an overall budget to ensure success
- To brief and train the sales force during quarterly commercial meetings
- To brief the media and analysts and to perform press tours in close collaboration with the Communication Manager
- To act as a leader within the company
Your profile:
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Product Manager or Product Marketing Manager
- Demonstrated success in defining and launching excellent products
- 10 years’ experience in a role on the machine tools market
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in French and English. German will be a plus
- Baccalaureate (preferably MBA)
- Technical training, with machine tools experience
- Excellent teamwork skills
- Proven capacity to influence inter-operational teams without formal authority
- Must be capable of travelling 20% of the time
OPTEC SA is an innovative company established for 25 years in the field of new technologies. The company, an SME with 20 employees, designs and manufactures laser micromachining machines or devices. Its applications cover the fields of medical devices (Minimal Invasive Surgery), and microtechnology in general. It exports worldwide through a network of local partners.
As part of its expansion, the company is actively seeking a software engineer.
The software engineer’s goal is to analyze, develop, configure, test, validate, document, and maintain the software and hardware included in all laser micromachining machines produced by Optec.
Your responsibilities
- Analysis of the customer’s technical needs (alone or in consultation with your supervisor and/or other teams if necessary)
- Analysis of electrical/electronic drawings in relation to a project
- Management of computer parts required for a project
- Hardware assembly, software installation and configuration of PCs mounted in the machines
- Time estimates for IT developments related to a project (alone or in consultation with his/her superior)
- The realization of computer developments related to a project, in accordance with the specifications
- The quality and documentation of the IT developments carried out
- Testing and validation of IT developments related to a project (in collaboration with other teams)
- The installation of the machines (remotely or at the customer’s site)
- The follow-up of the computer part of the machines
- The computer maintenance of the machines already installed, in collaboration with the after-sales service manager
- Contact with the customer when necessary
- Identify and remove problems and risks in ongoing projects
Your profile
- You have a Master’s degree or Industrial Engineer level
- Excellent English language skills (B2 level or higher)
- Knowledge of .NET, automation, electronics and pneumatics is a plus
- A good analytical mind
- An interest in technical challenges
- Creative
- Curious
- Pragmatic
- Autonomous
- Flexible
- Organized
- Thirsty to learn in advanced technical fields
OPTEC offers you the opportunity to grow in a highly specialized technological field, with opportunities for career development.
Please send your resume and cover letter to jobs@lasea.com. Subject: Software Engineer – OPTEC
More information about OPTEC here.
To reinforce its team, LASEA Belgium is actively looking for a vision oriented automatician.
Job description
- You are an ace in vision programming, you can easily juggle with Siemens programs? You are the automation specialist we are looking for.
- You develop your programs according to the best practice rules defined by the Technology Leader and possibly propose new ones.
- You participate in the elaboration of the functional analysis of a machine according to the specifications and in the elaboration of the test protocol
- You develop, according to the functional analysis, the vision and automation programs
- You are able to modify and create scripts in VBScript.
- You perform the calibration of the smart camera
- You install and test the programs
- You participate in the installation of the machine at the customer’s site (potentially abroad)
Your profile
- You have a bachelor’s degree in automation or industrial computer science
- You have more than 3 years experience in PLC programming
- You master the programming of Siemens PLCs (Tia Portal)
- You know VBScript
- Knowledge of machine vision and/or Eplan (P8) are real assets
- You have a good level of technical English
- You are serious and organized
- You are resistant to stress
- You are proactive
- You are curious
- You have good communication skills
- You accept short missions abroad
LASEA offers you
- A young team resolutely focused on technological innovation
- An opportunity for personal development in the short and long term
- A growing company in a pleasant working environment
- A salary package in line with your experience and skills
Interested in this career opportunity? Send us your application by email to jobs@lasea.com with the reference “Automaticien-BE”.
OPTEC SA is an innovative company established for 25 years in the field of new technologies. The company, an SME with 20 employees, designs and manufactures laser micromachining machines or devices. Its applications cover the fields of medical devices (Minimal Invasive Surgery), and microtechnology in general. It exports worldwide through a network of local partners.
In the framework of its expansion, the company is actively looking for a CAD-Designer.
Your responsibilities
As a CAD-designer you will work on various customer projects, in a team or individually, with responsibilities including:
- Design of our systems on Solidworks
- The realization of workshop and assembly drawings
- Contact with suppliers
- Follow-up of the project and the assembly of the machines in a multidisciplinary team
- Contact with the customer during factory acceptance and installation
Your profile
- You have a Master’s degree or Industrial Engineer level (minimum 3 years of professional experience)
- You have an excellent knowledge in electromechanics with professional experience
- You master the CAD software Solidworks
- Knowledge of automation / PLC’s is a plus
- You have an analytical and creative mind
- You have a strong practical sense
- You are eager to learn in advanced technical fields
- You have an excellent knowledge of English
- You are enterprising, curious and autonomous
- You are flexible
- You are organized
- You are willing to travel for work
We offer you the opportunity to work in a very competitive field with the possibility of career development and an attractive salary.
Please send your CV and cover letter to the following address: jobs@lasea.com. Subject: CAD-Designer – OPTEC
More information about OPTEC here.
To reinforce its team, LASEA Belgium is actively looking for an internal technical sales representative.
Your responsibilities
Under the responsibility of the sales manager :
- You are the partner of the field salesman:
- Validation and negotiation of NDAs
- Organization of customer visits (at LASEA) and FAT
- Internal administrative management of customer requests (CRM, Sharepoint, ERP, specific documents, …)
- Answering incoming customer calls
- Follow-up of a part of the distribution network (support and animation)
- You are the link between the sales department and the internal technical departments:
Applications” department:
- Organization of feasibility tests
- Transformation of “internal” reports into “external” reports
Solutions” department:
- Reading, validation and translation of customer specifications
- Internal coordination to transform customer requests into technical proposals
- Calculation of cost prices
- Drafting of technical offers
Your profile
- You have a technical training of bachelor or engineer
- You have a good commercial sense
- You have excellent communication skills
- You are capable of coordinating technical teams
- You master office tools (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, CRM, Sharepoint, …)
- You have the ability to work in a team
- You are versatile and have the ability to prioritize and manage time efficiently
- You are interested in continually learning and trying new ideas and concepts
- You are looking for a varied job in a high-tech environment with challenges
Languages :
- French : fluent spoken and written
- English : fluent spoken and written
- German: Is a plus
- You have at least two years experience in a similar position and activities
LASEA offers you
- A young team with a strong focus on technological innovation
- An opportunity for personal development in the short and long term
- A growing company in a pleasant working environment
- A salary in line with your experience and skills
Interested in this career opportunity? Send us your application by email to jobs@lasea.com with the reference “Internal sales representative-BE”.
LASEA is a Liege-based company specialized in laser applications for the industrial sector and particularly for micro-machining, surface treatment, plastic welding and marking of parts for their traceability. Located in Sart-Tilman, created in 1999, LASEA has continuously developed its know-how and its installations to develop reliable and totally innovative solutions. Within the framework of its expansion, it is now looking for an R&D engineer
Your responsibilities:
- You participate in R&D projects
- You will propose and implement innovative ideas in connection with various high-tech components (laser, sensors, motion control, etc.)
- You develop innovative femtosecond machining processes in the context of R&D projects
- You are in charge of communicating different innovative components of the R&D machines
- You write regular reports, in French or in English
- You will travel for R&D project meetings and for the installation of R&D machines
- You are in technical contact with project partners, suppliers, subcontractors and LASEA subsidiaries
Your profile:
- You are a civil or industrial engineer, junior (knowledge in physics, optics, lasers, etc.)
- You know how to be critical in the interpretation of results
- You have knowledge in AI / ML (Machine Learning)
- You have knowledge of Python programming
- You are pragmatic, creative and passionate
- You have a strong desire to learn and develop the potential of innovative and high-tech instruments
- You have a good command of French and English, German is a plus
- You are rigorous, meticulous and neat
- You are looking for a varied job, teamwork in a high-tech environment and you like challenges
LASEA offers you :
- A full-time job
- A young team focused on technological innovation
- An opportunity for personal development in the short and long term
- A growing company in a pleasant working environment
- A salary package in line with your experience and skills
Interested in this career opportunity? Send us your application by email to jobs@lasea.com with the reference “R&D Engineer – BE”.
More information about LASEA on : www.lasea.com
In order to develop its laser micromachining systems, LASEA Belgium is looking for an opto-mechanical engineer or designer.
Your responsibilities:
- You participate in projects related to laser micromachining of materials.
- You participate more particularly in the opto-mechanical development phases of subsystems included in LASEA’s machining machines and in the assembly of prototypes
- You will provide the technical assembly documents for the production
- As an opto-mechanical specialist, you will provide support to the development and assembly teams of the machines and to the after-sales service
- You will assist the teams with machine installation, customer training, trade shows, and customer demonstrations
- You will be in regular contact with the development team in Belgium, subcontractors, partners, and LASEA customers
Your profile:
- You are specialized in mechanics (engineer or draftsman), with knowledge in optics
- You have strong skills in industrial drawing and simulation (Solidworks)
- You have knowledge in PDM
- You are familiar with geometric tolerances and functional dimensioning
- You are fluent in French and English
- You are meticulous and neat
- You know how to take initiative
- You are looking for a varied job, teamwork in a high-tech environment and challenges
LASEA offers you :
- A young team resolutely focused on technological innovation
- An opportunity for personal development in the short and long term
- A growing company in a pleasant working environment
Please send your CV and cover letter to the following address: jobs@lasea.com. Subject: opto-mechanical engineer – BE
LASEA has been manufacturing laser micro-machining machines for more than 20 years. In order to support our continued growth and bolster our organisation in our new premises in Bienne, we are looking for an Applications/Services technician to start immediately or at a mutually agreed date.
Responsibilities:
- Developing laser processes on our machines.
- Commissioning our laser micro-machining machines.
- Performing acceptance tests on the machines in the factory and at our customers’ premises.
- Creating machining programs (using the in-house KYLA software).
- Educating and training operators on the use of our machines and their software programs.
- Performing demonstrations on how to use our machines.
- Providing customer support via phone and/or email from our offices and at our customers’ premises.
Profile:
- Basic technical training. Experience with laser micro-machining, as well as practical experience in servicing, repairing and programming machining machines, is a plus.
- A dynamic, adaptable and independent personality.
- Natural customer service skills.
- A structured and organised approach to work and strong communication skills.
- In light of our international focus, a strong to very strong
grasp of oral German and English is essential (additional languages are a plus).
LASEA is offering:
- A job with varied activities and responsibilities.
- An appealing working environment.
- The benefits of an international company.
Are you intrigued by this opportunity for personal and professional development?
Please send your full application to avogel@lasea.com
LASEA (Laser Engineering Applications SA) is a Belgian company specialized in laser applications for industry, and particularly for micro-machining, surface treatment, welding of plastic and marking parts for traceability.
Installed in Liege, and established in 1999, LASEA has continuously developed its expertise and facilities to get reliable and totally innovative solutions. LASEA offers its expertise in integrated solutions, process development and prototyping.
In order to grow its business, the company is constantly looking for new talents: skilled electrical engineers, electronic or optical control engineers, etc.
If you want to join the team, send your CV with a covering letter to info@lasea.eu.