Process Engineer

'1. PERSONALIA

• Age: 31
• Education: PhD Engineering Science
• Work experience : 2 years in Industry, before 2 years postdoc
• Civil status: Single
• Dependent people/children: 0

'2. EMPLOYER PROFILE

• Sector/Industry: Chemistry
• Amount of employees: 400 on this site
• Multinational? Yes

'3. CONTRACT & CONDITIONS

• Current job title: Process Engineer/Research scientist
• Seniority: 2y
• Official hours/week : 40 hours/week
• Average real hours/week incl. overtime: about 40-45 hours
• Shiftwork or 9 to 5 (flexible?): "flexible" but expected to be there between 9-16
• On-call duty: /
• Vacation days/year: 21+18 ADV

'4. SALARY

• Gross salary/month: 4750
• Average net salary/month (incl. net fees): 2865
• Netto compensation: /
• 13th month (full? partial?): Full
• Meal vouchers: 8 euro
• Ecocheques: Yes, 250EUR/y
• Salary car/bike and/or fuel card: No
• Group insurance (% employer): Yes (no clue)
• Other insurances: Yes, hospitalisation
• Other benefits (bonuses, stocks options, ... ): Bonus 6% yearly gross depending on performance, Pension fund

'5. MOBILITY

• City/region of work: Gent
• Distance home-work (km's/time): 10 mins car/bike
• How do you commute? Car/bike
• How is the travel home-work compensated: Bike recompensation, car recompensation
• Telework days/week: depending on projects, 0 to 2/week

'6. OTHER

• How easy can you plan a day off: Depends on production schedule
• Is your job stressful? Medium
• Education possibilities: Some internal (outdated) training
• Responsible for personnel (reports): no

I have the feeling that the PhD and postdoc years have not been fully transferred to seniority, although I have a relevant background in chemical engineering and production engineering. Also Gent area seems to be paying less.

I have received competitive job offers for similar roles, but kind of working on/developing to/waiting on growing to a role with more responsibilities. Trying to convince HR to offer mobility budget as well…