Ever wondered how your skills and unique background could impact the world of tomorrow? Join our R&D team and bring your passion and talent to work.
Plastics Engineer
Männedorf, Switzerland
Your contribution
You will play a key role in the design and development of plastic parts and consumables for laboratory automation systems. You will support the R&D team in developing and modifying laboratory instruments, ensuring high-quality solutions that meet technical and regulatory requirements. Your expertise will help drive innovation, improve product functionality, and ensure the seamless integration of plastic components within complex systems. You will collaborate closely with project teams, suppliers, and other stakeholders to deliver robust and reliable products.
Responsibilities
- Lead the mechanical design and development of plastic parts and consumables, including feasibility studies and variant evaluations.
- Advise project teams on injection molding and plastics manufacturing, including fill simulations and supplier collaboration.
- Draft specifications, test instructions, and technical documentation; plan, execute, and evaluate tests to ensure compliance with requirements.
- Support engineering testing, root cause analysis, and design reviews, focusing on early detection of design flaws.
- Ensure development documentation and PLM data handling according to established processes.
- Clarify technical requests from production, customer support, and product management, and contribute to continuous improvement of engineering best practices.
- Ensure compliance with processes, SOPs, guidelines, and quality standards, while meeting project objectives, deadlines, and budgets.
Your background
We’re not just looking for hard skills: We’re looking for people who bring their passion and talent to work.
- Technical degree, preferably in mechanical engineering or a related field; further education in technical sciences is an asset.
- Experience in instrument or module development, ideally in the medical device industry and series production.
- Strong knowledge of mechanical design engineering for plastic parts, including manufacturing techniques, design-to-cost, and integration into complex systems.
- Experience with supplier evaluation, quality standards, and technical documentation.
- Fluent in English and German, with strong oral and written communication and presentation skills.
- Team-oriented, independent, and proactive, with a flexible and target-oriented mindset.
- Committed to continuous professional development and upholding Tecan’s values.
What makes working at Tecan unique
The chance to make it count and to have an impact on the world of tomorrow
- Working in an international and diverse environment
- The chance to grow your career within the company
- Feel empowered by our strong and unique company culture
- Comprehensive compensation and benefits package
Join Tecan, a great place to work! Read about our recent certification from Great Place to Work.
We’re looking forward to receiving your application online. Please submit your CV or resume (w/o picture and w/o cover letter, reference letters and diplomas are optional).
Our purpose.
At Tecan we are driven to improve people’s lives and health. We do this by empowering our customers to scale healthcare innovation globally from life science to the clinic. We collaborate with our customers from early-stage innovation through project implementation and beyond. We deliver the products, services and solutions that make lab processes and medical procedures precise, reproducible and compliant.
Stay unique and make it count.
Our values - trust, highest standards and ambition - are the cornerstones of our business and provide the framework for Tecan's culture. We foster a positive and empowering environment where our rarest assets, our unique employees, can grow and bring their passion and talent to work.