Senior Mechanical Engineer
- Employment type
- Contract
- Workload
- 100%
- Location
- Risch · Remote possible
- Languages
- German, German
- First posted
- Life Sciences - Engineering
- Zug
- Contracting
- Part-time, 100%
- 01.11.2026 - 31.12.2027
- Catia, CAD, SolidWorks, ISO 8015
General Information
- Start date: 01.11.2026
- Latest possible start date: 01.03.2027
- Planned duration: Until 31.12.2027
- Extension: Very likely
- Workload: 100 %
- Work location: Rotkreuz
- Home office: By arrangement, maximum one day per week
- Travel activity: Occasional travel within Europe
Your Tasks
- You act as a technical expert for XYZ transfer systems, automated handling technologies, flexible feeding systems, as well as precise pick-and-place mechanisms including customer-specific end effectors and grippers.
- You accompany and support colleagues in mechatronic product development and in innovation projects.
- You establish best practices, design concepts and modular standards across various projects.
- You develop reusable mechatronic modules and standardized architectures.
- You undertake the design of drive and motion components such as actuators, motors and pneumatic components.
- You perform FEA and kinematics simulations to optimize cycle times, load limits and dynamic system behavior.
- You plan, calculate and process technical work packages taking into account effort, budget and deadlines.
- You define technical decision-making processes and identify potential project deviations early on.
- You perform 1D and 3D tolerance analyses as well as root cause analyses.
- You accompany physical prototype tests and present data-based optimization and redesign solutions.
- You create, check and maintain technical documentation taking into account regulatory requirements.
- You work closely with various internal and external interfaces from production, purchasing, quality assurance, regulatory affairs, service and supplier management.
Your Profile
- Completed Bachelor's or Master's degree in mechanical engineering, mechatronics or a comparable technical field
- At least ten years of professional experience in mechanical design, preferably in a regulated environment such as medical technology, diagnostics or GxP
- Sound experience in the mechatronic design of XYZ transfer systems, automation technologies or robotic arm applications
- Very good knowledge of mechanical calculations, especially in the design of drives and motors, the calculation of moments of inertia as well as structural loads
- Practical experience with FEA as well as motion or kinematics simulations, for example with ANSYS, MATLAB/Simulink or native CAD motion modules
- Sound practical experience with CATIA V5 and/or SolidWorks
- Experience with SAP-DVS systems
- Very good knowledge of ISO 8015 as well as geometric product specification and form and position tolerancing
- Sound knowledge in the area of Design for Manufacturing for different manufacturing technologies
- Experience in material selection as well as in the industrialization of products up to series production maturity
- Business fluent German and English skills in spoken and written form
- Distinct analytical and systematic way of working, high adaptability and strong team orientation
What to Expect
- A technically demanding expert function in an innovative development environment
- Responsibility for complex mechanical transfer and automation systems
- Varied tasks from concept development and simulation to commissioning and series production maturity
- Long-term project assignment with a very likely extension option
- Close cooperation with interdisciplinary departments and external partners
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