On - Senior Specialist – Innovation Mechanical Engineer - Zürich

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Innovation

In short

Take the leap and redefine the future of sports good production with us. Invent, build, optimize, automate and develop machines, to shape the future of manufacturing. Beside concept development and prototyping of new manufacturing technologies on a lab scale, you will work on the technology engineering , development scale up towards commercial production.

Your mission

Your mission is to develop disruptive processes to enable unprecedented novel product performance and/or enable more efficient, sustainable and agile manufacturing in a group of innovation engineers. Next to team members that explore process and product ideas, you are an expert in translating and developing these ideas into scalable manufacturing technologies and machine constructions. By using your interdisciplinary mechanical and process engineering know-how, you construct new manufacturing solutions, (e.g. inspired by other industries) to break boundaries regarding the ease, speed, agility and sustainability of sports good manufacturing. With an entrepreneurial mindset and your hands on mentality, you’ll work independently and flexibly, tackling challenging projects from concept to practical implementation and scale up. Through continuous innovation, you’ll push the boundaries of materials, technology, and processes, while keeping the big picture in mind.

Your story

– Passion for process and product development and robotics
– Proven track record of completing projects building machines with your own hands, automating processes or anything else that will impress us
– Advanced knowledge in applied mechanical engineering (incl. CAD), automation (PLC programming), another related field
– Understanding of polymers and their processing techniques, extrusion is a plus
– Experience with industrial multi axis robots
– You have an innovative mindset with a strong drive to pushing the boundaries of product and process engineering
– +3 years experience as engineer in the tech industry
– You have experience in managing external development stakeholders to develop and scale up new manufacturing technologies (flexibility and willingness to travel when required.)
– You are able to work independently under a deadline on several projects simultaneously requiring both innovative ideas and engineering problem-solving
– You have excellent communication skills and comfort adapting communication style between engineers, designers, product experts and cross-functional non-product creation partners

Meet the team

The Innovation team is responsible for On’s future products, out-of-the-box thinking and athlete-informed technology that differentiates On’s products in the market to become the most premium global sportswear brand, built on performance, design and impact.