Head of Industrialization 100% (f/m)

Job content

• Management and leadership of the Industrialization department with the areas of pro-duct and production engineering, tune and care, prototype assembly, dedicated solution engineering, and technical product
• Definition and implementation of the industrialization strategy at the Biel/Bienne site in cooperation with the management
• Actively participate with your team to R+D projects in order to assure best in class proto-type assembly and industrialization
• Participate to the cost calculation of production during the product development phase
• Develop and follow all customer-adapted solutions. Follow this special machine from the request for quotation to the delivery
• Help with your team of tune and care the assembly in case of any difficulties to assure on time and on quality delivery
• Assure with your team that our serial products are produced in an always more competi-tive way, in an always better quality
• Elaboration and implementation of manufacturing and quality concepts according to modern lean philosophies in close cooperation with various specialist departments from product development, and operations
• Ensuring measures to achieve and maintain process and equipment capability
• Responsibility for budget and key figures
  

• Ideally, you have a technical basic education with a degree in mechanical engineering, pro-duction science, mechatronics, robotics, automation or comparable
• Further education in the direction of business administration is an advantage
• Proven professional in industrialization with several years of experience and track record in a similar role from the manufacturing industry.
• Demonstrably good leadership experience
• Strong affinity for processes and IT
• Very good MS-Office, experience with SAP or CAD is an asset
• Business fluent communication in spoken and written German and English
• Other languages as French, Italian and Chinese are an asset
• You see yourself as a "doer" who get stuck in, actively leads and has great skills in operational implementation.
• You are an authentic and empathic communicator and an inspiring motivator, diplomatic skills, distinct abilities in dealing with change processes, good assertiveness, high solution orientation, quick grasp of complex tasks and contexts, pragmatic, an exemplary leadership style
  

• GF assists its employees to maintain work-life balance, for example, by offering flexible work arrangements.
• Our employees contribute a lot to our success. This is why GF places great importance to career development. Annually, as an employee, you can discuss how to advance your career with your supervisor.
• Our employees’ health and well-being matters to us. At GF we offer sporting activities and fitness studio allowances.
• GF enables its employees to spend quality time with their families after a child is born and grants them two weeks parental leave in addition to the parental leave provided for in the existing collective labour agreement. We also guarantee expectant mothers a full- or part-time job comparable to their previous job if they return to work within one year after the birth of their child.