Design Engineer

Innovation, Efficiency and Ambition: this is what VAT has stood for over 50 years. With this passion, VAT has grown to become the leading international developer, manufacturer and supplier of high-performance high-end vacuum valves and vacuum sealing technology, employing over 2000 people worldwide. The headquarters are located in Haag (Switzerland), with production centers in Switzerland, Malaysia, Romania, and Taiwan.

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Good product knowledge including design, machining, assembly, and surrounding processes.
2. Manage the product technical portfolio and keep it up to date with support from Customization Design Engineer.
3. Lead the technical aspects of relocation projects and customization projects by turning customer-specific requests into deliveries.
4. Act as technical lead for Product & Quality team, providing technical advice, root cause analysis, and implementing short and long-term measures.
5. Establish design guidelines and a checker to ensure good design quality.
6. Support Change Request and Change Management, liaising with the engineering change department for ECR/ECN implementation at the production floor, keeping the product up to date.
7. Involved in customer audits and provide technical support for Customer Complaints.
8. Support laboratory activities.
9. Drive product industrialization through design improvement, optimization, and cost-down projects.
10. Industrialize new standard and customer-specific products in close cooperation with industrialization project managers, HQ-design engineers, and product engineers.
11. Drive product optimization via collaboration with manufacturing departments, supplier development engineers, and project buyers.
12. Render technical support to NPI products until handoff to operations.
13. Support customers together with product management and application engineers.
14. Perform design reviews and Design for Manufacturing & Assembly (DFMA) at a cross-departmental level.
15. Work with Product Manager in conducting product training.
16. Participate in PFMEA, DFMEA, and design walkthroughs.
17. 70% engineering coordination tasks with 30% design-related tasks.

Minimum Requirements:

1. Degree or Master in mechanical engineering.
2. Sense of responsibility.
3. Able to work independently with minimum supervision.
4. Team player, able to collaborate professionally in a fast-paced environment.
5. Good communication skills, with proficiency in English.
6. Strong analytical skills.
7. Skill in 3D-CAD.
8. Good understanding of GD&T and its application.
9. Proactive, agile, creative, self-motivated.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Experience with CAD software – SIEMENS NX.
2. Experience in change management.
3. Experience in project management (structured working method).
4. Knowledge of vacuum industry technology.
5. Experience in design and application of mechatronic components (motor, sensor, heaters, etc.).
6. Experience in production of cast parts, sheet metal parts, and injection-moulding parts.