Senior Mechanical R&D Engineer

Sécheron Hasler Group continues the Swiss tradition of over 140 years in the field of railway technology. We are a leading global supplier of electrical and electronic safety components and solutions and traction power systems for the railway industry and also provide solutions for renewable energy, DC grid, and other industrial systems. The name Sécheron Hasler Group is a worldwide synonym for Swiss Quality and represents a leading reference for state-of-the-art products supplied to the market. With more than 1 300 employees worldwide, we are wherever our customers are around the globe, supplying products approved in our customers’ countries or markets and deliver supply chain and customer services locally. For our office in Geneva, we are currently looking for a Senior R&D Mechanical Engineer. Main tasks: Design for manufacturing, cost-efficient and robust solutions. Convert advanced concepts into practical design. Challenges concepts and drawings produced by others. Be a reference and coach for robust design. Support actual products within a multi-department team. Able to master actual product requiring complex multi-physical understandings. Hands-on with experimental mounting and testing. Master/PhD of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Microtechnics or Mechatronics/similar. Tolerance management, Robust Design, Design-to-Cost, Finite Element Analysis (Solidworks, Comsol, Ansys). Development of complex systems involving different technologies (in particular electrical, mechanical, magnetic). Implementation of robust design into industrial products. Key player in inventing advanced concepts and solving critical issues. Broad knowledge of machining capabilities and material (plastics/thermoset). English (must), French and/or German (wish). Geometrical Product Specifications (ISO Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing), Tolerance Management (with application in SolidWorks). Functional Analysis, FMEA. Electrical engineering fundamentals/Power electronics. We have flat hierarchies and direct communication between departments and levels of management is encouraged. This enables us to make decisions quickly. We give our employees total responsibility for their job tasks. All employees are encouraged to take initiatives and contribute to the company’s operational excellence and have ample opportunities to achieve their personal and career growth objectives.