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Senior Lead - Process Engineering, Lightspray

Location: Zurich

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Innovation

In short

Join us at the heart of the revolution. As a hands-on engineer in our LightSpray production sites, you will be the critical link between engineering and live operations. You will manage a growing production system, ensuring this disruptive technology is robust, repeatable, and ready to change the industry forever As the Senior Lead Process Engineer, your mission is to manage processes for novel manufacturing technologies. You will ensure the proper design of experiments, validation, and rollout of these processes, systematically assessing results using a data-driven approach. You will manage a team of engineers and collaborate with key stakeholders to drive successful process implementation.

Your Mission

Lead Data-Driven Process Industrialization: Design, execute, and systematically qualify experimental designs (DoE) and process validation protocols, focusing on ensuring repeatability, robustness, and immediate scalability for high-volume manufacturing.
Serve as Deep Technical Expert & Troubleshooter: Act as the senior point of contact for complex material processing challenges, machine parameters, and product requirements. Perform and direct root cause analysis (RCA) to resolve critical process deviations in production and development.
Drive Technical Team Leadership & Strategy: Lead, mentor, and coordinate a multidisciplinary team of process, materials, and automation experts, setting technical roadmaps and ensuring alignment on project priorities from lab to factory. Contribute to defining technology and long-term handover strategies for innovation developments.
Oversee Continuous Improvement & Global Deployment: Partner closely with global production sites to lead machine readiness, industrialize new production workstreams, and translate factory process feedback into engineering improvements and product optimization initiatives.
Bridging Innovation to Production: Lead process-related responsibility in multidisciplinary innovation projects, enabling new concepts and bridging innovation on material and process level to production.

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Your story

Educational Background: Engineering or Material Science background
6+ Years of Industry Experience: Proven track record in implementing novel processes and deep expertise in thermoplastic polymer processing, injection molding, or extrusion.
Industrial and Global Expertise: Deep, hands-on experience in executing experiments, validating processes, and critically, a proven track record of on-site troubleshooting and SOP development at Tier 1 production sites.
Technical Leadership & Entrepreneurial Mindset: Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary teams of engineers, defining technology handovers, setting technical roadmaps from research to scalable, production-ready systems, and coordinating international collaboration efforts.

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About the Team

As a member of the Innovation Technology Engineering team, you will join a multidisciplinary collective of experts redefining the future of sports goods manufacturing. We bridge the gap between digital theory and physical industrialization by building bespoke machinery, processing novel materials, and leveraging advanced modeling and simulation. Our mission is to unlock the potential of next-generation manufacturing, developing the custom software and engineering workflows needed to scale high-performance products.

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Dina

Footwear Testing Lead

We touch every product that's being made because we bring the connection to the human being. So while everyone's excited about products, materials and colors, we go and say, “okay, so what does this actually do for the human?”

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What we offer

On is a place that is centered around growth and progress. We offer an environment designed to give people the tools to develop holistically – to stay active, to learn, explore and innovate. Our distinctive approach combines a supportive, team-oriented atmosphere, with access to personal self-care for both physical and mental well-being, so each person is led by purpose.

On is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that is fair and inclusive, where all decisions related to recruitment, advancement, and retention are free of discrimination.

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What to expect

We want to set everyone up for success, so here’s the lowdown on how we hire. Our process is a two-way street – bringing you into our culture, while helping us learn how you think.

Our full process can last about eight weeks from application to offer, because we care about getting it right. These steps explain how we usually do things.

Before you get started, feel free to consider if you want to work with us. Strange question? Well, we give people a lot of space to navigate their day-to-day and that style isn't for everyone. We want you to be passionate about what you do and be sure this is the right fit. Because when skills and passion combine – it creates that 'Wow' moment.