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The Position
The Hardware Automation and Legacy Team in Rotkreuz develops mechatronic System Components for Lab Automation Solutions and ensures product delivery for our legacy products. The Department is part of the Corelab Network, a critical contributor and enabler of our divisional aspiration to realize Integrated Solutions, and to provide integrated diagnostics information anywhere, anytime.
THE OPPORTUNITY
As Team Leader, you are leading engineers in the disciplines Mechanics, Electronics and Realtime Software. The team comprises of internal FTEs and external contractors.
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Line management: Act as a servant leader, providing continuous coaching and performance feedback to the team, evaluating overall team and individual performance, delivering performance reviews in collaboration with project management, communicating and ensuring understanding of goals, and engaging with other line managers and Team Leaders in the Automation Area.
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Project Management: Supporting the Team as a Technical Project Leader Role within the Automation Projects or/and Custom Biotechnology
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Capability Management: Actively managing team members' capabilities in collaboration with the capability lead, project management, and other line managers within the same group, creating knowledge and standards, and providing coaching and training to ensure quality standards for all processes and tools.
The advertised position offers a fantastic opportunity for
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Working in an agile engineering environment, in the area of lab automation
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Opportunity to lead an interdisciplinary engineering team, according to servant leadership principles
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Responsibility for driving capabilities within your area and shape the organization in a sustainable manner, across sites
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Opportunity for personal growth and development
WHO YOU ARE
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You have a University degree in electrical or mechanical Engineering and a proven Track Record in Automation Engineering, preferably in the field of Lab Automation / Invitro-Diagnostics (IVD)
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Highly motivated People Leader with an ability to lead by influence, proven effectiveness, drive decisions and account for results; ability to resolve conflicts and adapt to change, effective to get results
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Good analytical thinking, a structured, reliable working manner, ability to prioritize, plan and manage multiple tasks and to instil a sense of urgency in teams
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Motivated and proactive team player with good networking skills; Strong team and customer orientation in a multicultural environment
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Excellent verbal and written communication skills in German and English
Who we are
At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.
Roche Diagnostics International in Rotkreuz is a leading provider of diagnostic systems solutions, and the largest manufacturer of fully automated in vitro diagnostic systems in Switzerland. We are more than 2’700 passionate colleagues from over 65 nationalities. Find out more about our site in Central Switzerland, here.
Besides extensive development and training opportunities, we offer flexible working options, 18 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks of gender independent partnership leave. Our employees benefit from multiple services on site such as child-care facilities, medical services, restaurants and cafeterias, as well as various employee events.
We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion, and strive to identify and create opportunities that enable all people to bring their unique selves to Roche.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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What We Do
Roche is a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics focused on advancing science to improve people’s lives. The combined strengths of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics under one roof have made Roche the leader in personalised healthcare – a strategy that aims to fit the right treatment to each patient in the best way possible.
Roche is the world’s largest biotech company, with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and diseases of the central nervous system. Roche is also the world leader in in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a frontrunner in diabetes management.
Founded in 1896, Roche continues to search for better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases and make a sustainable contribution to society. The company also aims to improve patient access to medical innovations by working with all relevant stakeholders. Thirty medicines developed by Roche are included in the World Health Organization Model Lists of Essential Medicines, among them life-saving antibiotics, antimalarials and cancer medicines. Roche has been recognised as the Group Leader in sustainability within the Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences Industry ten years in a row by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI).
