Junior Mechanical Engineer 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 everyday occurrences for us. We combine business and technology expertise into solutions that inspire our customers. For them, we develop economically successful products, services and business models of the digital future - from the idea through to realisation and operation. What we need for this: your talent.

Your tasks 

• You bring your enthusiasm for product development into diverse customer projects and work together with your team on innovative solutions. 

• In our projects, you take on various tasks from concept to realisation of innovative new products. Depending on the project, you will, for example, create CAD designs, develop concepts in workshops, carry out FEM simulations or assemble and test a prototype in the laboratory. You are interested in smart technical solutions, but it is also important to you that our customers can bring a successful product to market. 

• You work with our customers from different industries and develop products with them, for example for consumer goods, medical technology or industry. 

Your talent

• With your university degree in mechanical engineering (FH, ETH), you have sound knowledge of mechanics. Ideally, you have previously completed a technical apprenticeship, e.g. in design or polymechanics. 

• You bring 1-2 years of professional experience or have gained industry-related practical experience during your studies. 

• Ideally, you have gained initial practical experience in product development and/or the industrialisation of products. 

• Proficient use of modern CAD, PDM and simulation tools (e.g. SolidWorks & Ansys) is second nature to you. 

• Thanks to your proactive, communicative personality, you feel comfortable in interdisciplinary teams and work motivated and customer-oriented, from the idea to the complete implementation of a solution. 

• You enjoy networking with other engineers, actively share experiences and use appropriate AI tools responsibly and efficiently. 

• Quality is very important to you and you want to quench your thirst for knowledge about the latest technologies and methods every day.

• You have a do-it-yourself mentality and are a passionate tinkerer. Building prototypes and applying new technologies is your passion. "Design for manufacturing" is always important to you. 

• Fluent German and good English skills complete 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 and a modern, trust-based working environment.
• Profit sharing: In addition to your annual salary, you can benefit from a profit-sharing scheme based on the company’s success in the previous year.
• Global and diverse Zühlke community: Experience a unique, positive and inclusive corporate culture where colleagues collaborate, learn from each other and exchange ideas. This happens, among other things, at our local team camps, year-end celebrations and other local events.
• Support for your development: The continuous 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 skills you need to create sustainable value for our customers and your own career today and in the future.

Further information on 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.