🚜 Senior R&D; Expert – Excavator Development | Imola, Italy

📍 Imola, Italy  | Hybrid

✈️ Travel:  Up to 50% across Europe, UK & China

I’m currently looking for a Senior R&D; Expert – Application-Focused Excavators  to join the engineering team of a global leader in construction machinery.

This is a brand-new role  where you will act as the technical link between European customer requirements and global R&D; teams, helping develop and optimize excavators for demanding applications.

⚠️ TWO KEY REQUIREMENTS

1️⃣ Recent excavator development experience

We are specifically looking for someone with recent, hands-on experience in excavator development .

Ideally, you will have 8+ years of experience in R&D;, product development or application engineering within construction machinery , including proven and recent experience developing excavators .

General construction machinery experience without direct excavator development experience may not be sufficient for this particular role.

2️⃣ Italian + English

As this is an international position involving collaboration with teams and partners across different markets, strong professional communication skills in both Italian and English are important for the role.

🔧 Your responsibilities

- Translate customer requirements into engineering solutions
- Define specifications for application-specific excavator variants
- Develop concepts for attachments, hydraulic systems, reinforcements and machine adaptations
- Lead testing,



validation and customer field trials
- Collaborate with global R&D; teams and technical partners
- Provide market and competitor insights to support product strategy

👤 Your profile

- Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics or a related field
- 8+ years of relevant R&D; / product development / application engineering experience
- Recent and proven excavator development experience
- Strong knowledge of excavators, hydraulics, machine integration and specialized attachments
- Experience in at least two areas:
- Demolition
- Material Handling
- Waste & Recycling
- Civil Engineering
- Strong professional communication skills in Italian and English
- Willingness to travel internationally

🌍 What’s on offer?

- 📍 Based in Imola, Italy
- Hybrid working environment
- International role with a global construction machinery leader
- Opportunity to influence future excavator solutions for the European market
- Collaboration with global R&D; teams
- Strong career development opportunities
- Competitive salary – my client is open to the market and willing to make a strong offer

📩 Interested in learning more?

If you have a background in excavator development and are open to an international R&D; opportunity, I’d love to hear from you.

Feel free to send me your CV or message me directly here on LinkedIn.

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