Junior Mechanical Engineer - Plastics (80-100%)

Founded in Switzerland in 1968, Zühlke is owned by its partners and located across Europe and Asia. We are a global transformation partner, with engineering and innovation in our DNA. We're trusted to help clients envision and build their businesses for the future - to run smarter today while adapting for tomorrow-s markets, customers, and communities. Our multidisciplinary teams specialise in tech strategy and business innovation, digital solutions and applications, and device and systems engineering. We excel in complex, regulated spaces including health and finance, connecting strategy, tech implementation, and operational services to help clients become more effective, resilient businesses.

If you share our values and want to do the best work, for the right reasons, we can offer you the chance to do it on a global scale and play a real role in shaping our exciting journey.

Zühlke - empowering talent. Special tasks are commonplace with us. We combine business and technology expertise into solutions that inspire our customers. For them, we develop economically successful products, services and business models for the digital future - from the idea, through realization to operation. What we need for this: Your talent.

Your Tasks

• You contribute your enthusiasm for product development to diverse customer projects and work together with your team on innovative solutions.
• In our projects, you participate in the development of innovative products. Plastics often play a central role in this. For example, you dimension components, design them and accompany their procurement. During commissioning, you ensure together with the project team that functionality and quality meet the requirements.
• You work together with customers from different industries and develop with them, for example, products for consumer goods, medical technology or industrial applications.

What you bring

• Through your university degree in mechanical engineering (e.g. FH or ETH), ideally with a specialization in plastics technology, you have sound mechanical knowledge.
• You bring initial professional experience in the development of plastic parts and are familiar with the material-specific properties and challenges of plastics.
• Proficient use of modern CAD, PDM and simulation tools (e.g. SolidWorks & Ansys) is a matter of course for you.
• Quality is of high importance to you and you want to satisfy your thirst for knowledge about the latest technologies every day.
• Thanks to your communicative personality, you feel comfortable in interdisciplinary teams and work in a motivated and customer-oriented manner, from the idea to the complete implementation of a solution.
• You enjoy networking with other engineers, actively share experiences and use suitable AI tools responsibly and efficiently.
• Business fluent German and good English skills round off your profile.

What we offer

• Work-Life-Blend: We promote a balanced connection of professional and personal needs through flexible working hours, the possibility of home office as well as a modern, trust-based working environment.
• Profit sharing: In addition to your annual salary, you can benefit from a profit sharing scheme that is based on the company's success from the previous year.
• Global and diverse Zühlke community: Experience a unique, positive and inclusive corporate culture in which colleagues work together, learn from each other and exchange ideas. This takes place, among other things, at our local Team Camps, annual celebrations and other local events.
• Support for your development: The continuous further development of our employees is a central concern for us. Therefore, we invest specifically in your professional and personal development and support you in building the competencies you need to create sustainable value for our customers and your own career today and in the future.

Further information on the local benefits at Zühlke can be found at the following link.

If you feel you don't meet all the requirements, we are still happy to get to know you, learn more about your ambitions and ideas and look forward to receiving your application!

We welcome people from all backgrounds, regardless of their gender, personality, national origin, race, religion, colour, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability or veteran status.