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Philips Drachten
Philips Drachten

Philips Drachten has been located in Drachten since 1950 and is one of the largest development and production centers of Philips in Europe. Here more than 1700 enthusiastic colleagues from all over the world work together on Personal Health products that improve people's lives, such as shavers, Philips Avent Mother & Childcare products (pacifiers and bottles), OneBlades, Ladyshaves, beard trimmers and parts for the electric toothbrushes (Sonicare).

Health and sustainability in one

Philips strives to make the world healthier and more sustainable through innovation and has set itself the goal of improving the lives of 2.5 billion people per year by 2030.

Our vacancies

Develop the mechanical interface for Automated tray handling

  • Drachten
  • HBO/WO
  • 6 months
Your challenge  Are you the enthusiastic, talented intern we’re looking for?  @ The Philips Drachten Production Location we Produce Shaving Heads for the Philips shavers worldwide.  To improve our competitiveness there is always a drive to improve our productivity. We see an opportunity to increase the productivity by transferring manual labor to Autonome Mobile Robots…

Minituur digitaal meetsysteem

  • Drachten
  • HBO/WO
  • 6 months
Het doel van de stage opdracht is om een miniatuur digitaal meetsysteem verder te ontwikkeling. Dit meetsysteem past in een enkele scheerkop van een Philips scheerapparaat. Het systeem moet in zijn eigen energie voorzien d.m.v. een zogeheten “energy harvesting” methode. Verder meet het systeem aspecten van het scheerproces zodat dit geoptimaliseerd kan worden. Er is…

Mapping and Optimizing the Product Return Journey with Technological Solutions

  • Drachten
  • HBO/WO
  • 6 months
Title: Improving the RGA and RCA Process by Mapping the Full Return Journey and Exploring Technological Opportunities Introduction: Returned Goods Analysis (RGA) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) are key processes for understanding product returns and driving improvements across business units. This assignment invites students to investigate the complete return journey of a product, starting from…

From data to knowledge

  • Drachten
  • HBO/WO
  • 6 months
Assignment: You will be participating in the Cutting Elements & Metals Industrialization team at Philips Drachten, where you get the opportunity to work on the ‘From data to knowledge’ assignment. For this assignment you will work with the industrialization team, where state-of-the-art high-quality metal forming processes are developed and implemented into the industrial domain of…

Minimizing the environmental impact of coating operations

  • Drachten
  • HBO/WO
  • 6 months
Assignment Assess current coating process steps regarding solvent use, emissions, and waste generation. Investigate and develop recommendations for more sustainable practices. You will be joining the Site Manufacturing Engineering Molding & Decoration department at Philips Drachten. A team of experienced and passionate professionals, that works on a large variety of products. We are looking for:…

Electromagnetic FEM – Ansys modelling

Engineering Mechanics Mechatronics R&D Software

  • Drachten
  • 4+ months
Problem description In the future development of modelling and simulation, the optimisation process will increasingly be carried out by central control algorithms. In a number of optimization steps, the design of a system to be developed is continuously refined until it meets certain system requirements. To realize this approach, it is necessary that the various…

Alternative motor speed control

R&D

  • Drachten
  • HBO/WO
  • 4+ months
Problem description At Philips Health Tech in Drachten, appliances are developed in the personal care (shavers, trimmers, epilators, etc...) and personal health (toothbrushes) domain. In most cases a PI-controller is used in order to have a constant and defined speed for the function (like shaving, epilating, etc...). The design of this controller is based on...

Development of an electric wireless toothbrush system with a fast inductive charging method

R&D

  • Drachten
  • HBO/WO
  • 6 months
Are you the enthusiastic, talented graduate(s) Electronics engineering we’re looking for?  You will be joining the Innovation Team Oral HealthCare R&D department at Philips Drachten. An impactful multi-disciplinary team of experienced and passionate professionals, that works with internal and external teams from all over the globe. You get the opportunity to work on an innovative…

Torque sensor investigation and control

Elektronica / Elektrotechniek Engineering Mechanics Mechatronics R&D

  • Drachten
  • < 6 maanden
At Philips Health Tech in Drachten, appliances are developed in the personal care (shavers, trimmers, epilators, etc…) and personal health (toothbrushes) domain. For that aim, motors are characterized in such a way that they serve as a model for complete drive-train calculations. Until now, only an indirect method is used to check the accuracy of…

Development of an algorithm for automatic battery modeling

R&D

  • Drachten
  • WWI
  • 6 months - 1 year
Are you an enthusiastic, talented graduate(s) Mathematics You will be joining the Mechatronics R&D Innovation department at Philips Drachten. An impactful multi-disciplinary team of experienced and passionate professionals who work with internal and external teams. You get the opportunity to work on an innovative method for automatic battery modelling. Description of assignment Within Philips HealthTech,...

Development of a mechatronic device/system for innovative mouth health detection

R&D

  • Drachten
  • WWI
  • 6 months - 1 year
Are you the enthusiastic, talented graduate(s) Biomedical engineering and/or Mechatronics engineering we’re looking for?  You will be joining the Innovation Team Oral HealthCare R&D department at Philips Drachten. An impactful multi-disciplinary team of experienced and passionate professionals, that works with internal and external teams from all over the globe. You get the opportunity to work…

Research on a consumer system for innovative mouth health detection

R&D Traineeship

  • Drachten
  • WWI
  • De duur van de opleiding of stage
Are you the enthusiastic, talented Biomedical engineering student for an internship we’re looking for?  You will be joining the Innovation Team Oral HealthCare R&D department at Philips Drachten. An impactful multi-disciplinary team of experienced and passionate professionals, that works with internal and external teams from all over the globe. You get the opportunity to work…

Philips Internship/Graduation Assignment - Material Modeling & Validation for the drop test simulation

Innovation R&D mechanical engineering Material Finite element analysis (FEA)

  • Drachten
  • WWI
  • < 6 maanden
Assignment ObjectiveIn this assignment, you will investigate how material models are created and applied in simulations. The focus will be on analyzing different modelling methods and testing them under varying speeds, which correspond to different strain rates. The materials to be studied include ABS, PA, and other plastics commonly used in consumer products. Your simulations…

Internship Venting through porous steel using 3D printing in injection molding

3D Printer Engineering Innovation Mechanics mechanical engineering

  • Drachten
  • WWI
  • < 6 maanden
Your role:You will be participating in the Technology Team – Architecture, Molding and Decoration at Philips Drachten, where you get the opportunity to work on the following graduate assignment – Venting through porous steel using 3D printing in injection molding. When injecting plastic in a mold, we need to get rid of the air during…

BBL work-learning trajectory Philips

BBL

  • Drachten
  • MBO
  • Undetermined time
BBL work-learning trajectory at PhilipsPhilips offers motivated BBL-ers the opportunity to be trained as Operator (level 3) or Mechanic (level 3 and 4). You will then be offered a paid work experience position for 40 hours a week within Philips, where you will also go to school one day a week that you will simply be paid. In this way…

Open student assignment application: Innovation of the future

  • Drachten
  • MBO / HBO / WO
Start date: All year Duration: 6 > months In this role, you have the opportunity to make life better You will get the opportunity to lead and/or participate in various projects related to Innovation and/or Operations at Philips in Drachten. We challenge you to further develop your talents and gain experience in a technical environment….

Contact details

Oil mill street 5
9203 ZN Drachten