Production Team Coordinator

About the job

About VAT

At VAT, we change the world with vacuum solutions. As the world’s leading provider of high-performance vacuum valves, we have been driving innovation for over 60 years. With more than 3,200 employees worldwide, we operate from our headquarters in Haag (Switzerland) and run production sites in Switzerland, Malaysia, and Romania, as well as sales and service centres around the globe.

Our passion for integrity, teamwork, customer focus, and innovation guides us – always together as #oneVAT.

When you join us, you become part of a dedicated, international team where your voice counts, your ideas make a difference, and your professional development is supported.

Your new area of responsibility

VAT is committed to carrying out maintenance and documenting it.

• Ensuring and improving the technical availability of equipment
• Maintaining maintenance documentation
• Eliminating safety deficiencies in production equipment
• Contact person for modifications and retrofits on production equipment
• Participating in the procurement process of new equipment
• Supervising external service providers

• Resolving operational disruptions, downtimes, and safety deficiencies of production equipment
• Conducting inspections and maintenance, as well as control and maintenance rounds
• Assisting and planning modifications and improvements of production equipment
• Planning and implementing modifications, improvements, and retrofits on production equipment
• Maintaining and updating technical documentation
• Providing and organising spare parts
• Active participation in projects
• Role model in occupational safety and health protection
• Supporting the team leader in daily operational business
• Assisting with the administrative onboarding of new employees

Your experience, skills and talents

• Experience in maintenance, ideally with CNC machines, cleaning systems, and hydraulic presses
• Experience handling operational disruptions on production equipment
• Experience with technical documentation
• Completed training as a polymechanic with a federal certificate of competence (EFZ) or in a related mechanical profession
• Forklift and pallet truck licence
• Knowledge of pneumatics, hydraulics, and vacuum systems
• Analytical thinking and structured approach to fault analysis and troubleshooting
• Independent and reliable working style as well as teamwork skills
• Good MS Office knowledge
• Respectful, appreciative, and open communication

About us

• Dynamic company with a demanding and varied field of activity where you can develop
• Good induction and a motivated team to ensure your success and enjoyment
• Flat hierarchies and short decision-making paths
• Opportunity to contribute your own ideas to company development
• More information about our company at www.vatvalve.com