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Service Engineer

1. PERSONALIA

  • Age: 28
  • Education: Electromechanical Engineering (no degree though)
  • Work experience : 2,5 years
  • Civil status: Single
  • Dependent people/children: Zero

2. EMPLOYER PROFILE

  • Sector/Industry: Telecom
  • Amount of employees: 35
  • Multinational? No

3. CONTRACT & CONDITIONS

  • Current job title: Service engineer
  • Seniority: 0,5 years in current position (2,5 years with the company)
  • Official hours/week : 40
  • Average real hours/week incl. overtime: +- 40 to 55 depending on installations and on-call (overtime is compensated)
  • Shiftwork or 9 to 5 (flexible?): 9 to 5, flexible
  • On-call duty: 1 week every 6 weeks (fixed fee to be available + bonus if need to go on-site + overtime compensated on top of fixed fee and bonus)
  • Vacation days/year: 22 + 10 ‘ADV’

4. SALARY

  • Gross salary/month: €3250 base (excluding on-call fees etc)
  • Average net salary/month (incl. net fees): between €2100 and €2800, highly dependant on on-call schedule, interventions during on-call and overtime
  • Netto compensation: €200
  • 13th month (full? partial?): Full
  • Meal vouchers: €7 per work day
  • Ecocheques: €250 annually
  • Salary car/bike and/or fuel card: car (VW Passat Variant GTE) + fuel card valid in Belgium
  • Group insurance (% employer): yes (% not sure)
  • Other insurances: hospitalisation
  • Other benefits (bonuses, stocks options, ... ): Cellphone (new one every 3 years) + cell phone subscription, Laptop, Yearly bonus if company goals reached (last year €1.800 net)

5. MOBILITY

  • City/region of work: Flanders
  • Distance home-work (km's/time): 32km in approx. 30 minutes to the office, but installations all over Belgium
  • How do you commute? car
  • How is the travel home-work compensated: fuel card + car
  • Telework days/week: Technically 3, but often on the road for work anyway

6. OTHER

  • How easy can you plan a day off: very easy if requested 1+ month in advance. Otherwise still pretty easy depending on period.
  • Is your job stressful? Sometimes, especially during on-call
  • Education possibilities: Training on different (relevant) technologies pretty much as I want (within reason)
  • Responsible for personnel (reports): no
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