Lausanne
Field Application Engineer 100% – Lamination Processes & Equipment
- 11 August 2026
- 100%
- Permanent position
About the job
Being technically skilled is not enough for you?
🌍 Use your expertise worldwide – directly with our customers!
As a Field Application Engineer, you secure processes & machines and ensure everything runs smoothly. 🚀
Packaging makes an important contribution to our society. It protects products during transport, enables their storage, extends shelf life, and provides valuable information about the contents.
Bobst is one of the world’s leading suppliers of quality equipment and services for packaging and label manufacturers. We support our customers in more than 50 countries, have 14 production sites, and employ over 5,600 people worldwide.
At the Grenchen site (Switzerland), we develop and produce equipment for the manufacture of laminated corrugated board – and ensure that these run reliably at our customers worldwide.
YOUR MISSION
- Contact person for customers and internal teams worldwide on technical issues
- Ensure smooth and efficient machine and process operation
- Continuously optimise processes and improve quality
- Conduct training and technical support – on-site and remotely
- Accompany machine acceptance internally and externally
- Manage projects from sales closure to successful installation
- International travel approx. 80%
YOUR PROFILE
- Completed technical training (e.g. mechanic, automation technician)
- Further education as an engineer FH/B.Sc. (mechanical engineering, systems engineering, mechatronics or similar)
- Several years of professional experience in plant or mechanical engineering
- Initial experience in project management as well as basic business understanding
- Very good understanding of technical processes and machine operations
- Fluent German and English skills (C1), additional languages advantageous
- Independent, quality- and solution-oriented working style, analytical and networked thinking
WE OFFER
- ⏰ Flexible working hours model – 40h/week with core hours that give you freedom in organisation
- 🌟 Diverse and varied tasks – exciting projects & challenges with room for creativity and development
- 🤝 Flat hierarchies & direct communication – benefit from short decision-making paths and open exchange at all levels
- 🛡️ Attractive social benefits – comprehensive coverage for your professional and private future (e.g. health care, pension provision)
- 🏡 Flexible home office options – work from home as needed and secure a balanced work-life balance
- 🎉 Swibeco discounts & Reka-Card – enjoy discounts, vouchers and attractive leisure offers
Join us – and grow with us.
BOBST is an engineering company, pioneering intelligent solutions that shape the future of the packaging world. At BOBST, you make an impact on a global scale – through innovation and advanced technology. You grow by mastering challenges – in a team that strives for excellence. And you enjoy a culture of a family-run enterprise, where values are truly lived. With the combined forces of more than 6400 people and business activities in more than 50 countries, we are positioned as the innovation leader in our industry.