Head of Automation, Digital & Maintenance

About the job

You work 100% in Zug, partly remote

• As a leader, you manage and develop an interdisciplinary team from the areas of automation, digitalisation, industrial testing technology and maintenance. In doing so, you promote appreciative collaboration across departmental boundaries
• You are responsible for the technology and digital portfolio for the Zug site as well as partly for Sulgen and Changzhou. You prioritise investments according to their contribution to safety, quality, availability, functionality and manufacturing costs. This ensures that profitability, benefits and success criteria are guaranteed throughout the entire lifecycle
• Together with your team, you develop modern automation, testing and assistance solutions and accompany plant projects from planning and procurement to handover to series production, always keeping safety, quality, availability and productivity in mind
• You drive the digitalisation of production forward and continuously develop the MES (Manufacturing Execution System) as well as other production-related systems in close cooperation with the specialist departments and IT
• With consistent and reliable data usage, you create the basis for evaluations, digital applications and the economically sensible use of AI
• You develop sustainable operating and support concepts for production plants, testing technology and digital production systems. In doing so, you consider both OT/IT interfaces and requirements for cyber security
• By further developing maintenance – from documented maintenance processes through digital spare parts management to data-based maintenance approaches – you sustainably increase plant availability, reliability and efficiency

• You have a technical education with further training at FH or ETH level or a comparable qualification as well as several years of leadership and project experience in an industrial production environment
• Your sound understanding of automation, control and testing technology as well as maintenance enables you to effectively network the specialists in these disciplines
• You are familiar with modern production systems as well as the integration of OT and IT. You bring experience with PLC systems, ideally Siemens and Beckhoff, as well as with MES, SAP-related processes and corresponding interfaces
• You have accompanied plant or automation projects from planning and procurement through commissioning to successful handover to series production. Knowledge of agile working methods, such as SAFe, is an advantage
• You use data and key figures purposefully as leadership and decision-making tools. You recognise the potential of predictive maintenance as well as digital and AI-supported solutions for production
• You think strategically, act pragmatically and make decisions with regard to profitability, quality, availability and safety
• As a connecting leader, you win people over to change, promote cross-departmental collaboration and communicate appropriately in German and English

Do you want to actively shape the future of our production? In this strategically important key role, you take over the leadership and further development of the areas of automation, digitalisation and maintenance with currently 29 employees. Together with your team as well as internal and external technology partners, you shape the digital transformation of our factory in Zug. In doing so, you combine technology, data and maintenance into innovative, economical and sustainable solutions and make a decisive contribution to the competitiveness of our production site.