Systems and Control Engineer, High Tech Utilities

Systems & Control Engineer, High‑Tech Utilities - where critical infrastructure, data, and industrial networks converge - and you make the impact.

At NXP Nijmegen, our high‑tech semiconductor fabs run 24/7, powered by some of the most advanced utility installations in the industry. From HVAC and UPW to thermal systems, chemicals, and specialty gases — everything relies on a massive and tightly controlled monitoring ecosystem.

Across our site, more than 50,000 sensors are connected via a landscape of industrial networks, data acquisition systems, and secure IT interfaces. These signals ensure safe, stable, and ultra‑reliable utility performance needed for world‑class semiconductor manufacturing.

To strengthen our Utilities Engineering team, we’re looking for a Systems & Control Engineer Utilities who thrives at the intersection of engineering, data, networks, and mission‑critical IT.

Your Mission

You will take end‑to‑end ownership of our process‑monitoring ecosystem with a special focus on the networks and data flows that connect all utility equipment to our monitoring platforms. From sensor reliability and network architecture to dashboarding, alarm philosophy, and advanced analytics — you ensure that our utility systems are continuously visible, secure, and performing flawlessly.

You will help shape monitoring strategy, strengthen our OT/IT boundary, and drive secure and robust data integration across platforms. You’ll work closely with operations, automation, cybersecurity, and our 24/7 control room to take monitoring to the next level.

What You’ll Work On

• Optimizing and expanding the monitoring of essential utility systems (HVAC, UPW, thermal, chemical, and gas installations).
• Managing a landscape of 50,000+ sensors across multiple industrial networks.
• Strengthening the OT/IT integration, including data routing, network segmentation, and secure interfaces with central monitoring systems.
• Improving alarm logic, event analysis, signal behavior, and predictive insights.
• Ensuring cyber‑secure monitoring, aligned with NXP’s high standards.
• Supporting the 24/7 control room with accurate, high‑value data for fast detection and smart decision‑making.
• Contributing to digital initiatives such as anomaly detection, smart monitoring, and reliability engineering.

What Excites You

You’ll thrive in this role if you are energized by:

• Working where engineering meets IT, with an emphasis on industrial networks, secure data transport, and system architecture.
• Managing and optimizing large-scale sensor networks that drive real-time visibility and operational excellence.
• Diving into complex utilities that power semiconductor production with extreme reliability requirements.
• Improving a monitoring landscape with thousands of signals, making data flows smarter and more meaningful.
• Building structured, future-proof monitoring strategies that truly influence operations.

Your profile

• A degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Automation, Mechatronics, or a related field.
• Experience with process monitoring, industrial networks, data acquisition, or critical utility systems.
• Understanding of OT/IT interfaces, cybersecurity in industrial environments, and networked sensor systems.
• Affinity with dashboards, alarm behavior, system reliability, and data-driven decision-making.
• A proactive mindset focused on quality, robustness, and continuous improvement.
• Fluent Dutch language skills

Why NXP?

You will join a high-tech environment where your engineering decisions have direct impact on uptime, safety, and the performance of one NXP’s semiconductor fabs. You’ll work with deeply skilled colleagues, critical infrastructure, and a monitoring environment that keeps our advanced utilities running flawlessly — 24/7.

Creating Secure Connections and Infrastructure for a Smarter World

NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) makes products and environments safer, more sustainable, and more secure with innovative connectivity and edge processing solutions for a smarter world.

We are in the business of better. Not just better technologies, but better innovations to improve society. As the world leader in secure connectivity and processing solutions for embedded applications, NXP is solving the world’s most complex technology challenges to accelerate business innovation, enhance how we work, and advance how we live.

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What can you expect?

Contract: This is a full-time position with a permanent contract. However, we are open to discuss a part-time opportunity (between 32 and 38 hours) as well.

Benefits: Besides a competitive salary, we offer great benefits as part of our CLA. A bonus plan, possibility to purchase extra holidays, an excellent pension plan, a work from home policy, and the possibility to buy company shares with a 15% discount are some examples. When applicable we also provide a relocation package and support for your move to the Netherlands.

Development opportunities: We believe that a key component to growing our business is to develop our people. To enable you to grow your career at NXP, we provide you with a mix of learning through on-the-job experiences, learning from industries bests, and learning through education to help you develop your core and professional skills.

Our offices: The Netherlands is home to our global headquarters (Eindhoven) along with two additional sites (Nijmegen and Delft ) and includes a diverse team of over 2000 employees with 51 different nationalities focused on R&D, manufacturing, product development, business operations, legal and sales.

Hiring process: Applying only takes a minute! Fill in the online application and share your CV with us. After a positive screening based on your CV you will have an initial video conversation with our Talent Acquisition Consultant followed by several business interviews. Here are some useful tips to help you prepare.

And more: Life at NXP is more than work alone. Join one of the many social activities that are organized by and for employees in the Netherlands, such as our Christmas parties and International Walking Day. We have a YOUNG community that organizes a mix of social and professional events for our young professionals and an active Women in Technology network. We also take time to give back to our communities by engaging young girls to learn about Technology during Girls Day or participating in several volunteering activities.

What’s next?

If you are excited about this opportunity, we kindly invite you to apply!

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