COOP
Wangen bei Olten
Lead Engineer OT Engineering Buildings & Energy with Prospect of Team Leadership
- 04 November 2026
- 80 – 100%
- Permanent position
- German (Fluent)
About the job
Are you ready to work in an environment where quality and sustainability are not just promises but lived values? At Coop, we take pride in the quality of our products and services. Become part of our production team and help us continue to create products that impress and not only meet but exceed our customers' expectations.
Ideally, you also bring:
Lead Engineer OT Engineering Buildings & Energy with Prospect of Team Leadership
Responsibilities
- You strategically and operationally build up the OT Engineering Buildings and Energy area and significantly shape its technological direction
- You develop architectures, standards, and technical foundations for building, energy, and infrastructure systems
- You are responsible for central systems, platforms, and edge solutions for scalable OT and IoT use cases
- You drive the development of the Coop Virtual Power Plant – including energy data consolidation from around 1300 locations as well as technical prerequisites for balancing energy and energy optimisation
- You define a modern tech stack and ensure that solutions are built to support zero-touch provisioning and over-the-air updates
- You work closely with specialist departments, architecture, operations, and security and prepare the establishment and possible future leadership of the team
Requirements
- With a completed degree in engineering sciences, computer science, or a comparable qualification at bachelor or master level, you have a solid professional foundation
- You bring profound knowledge in computer science, system architecture, networking, and technical solution development
- You have already gained initial practical experience in OT security and understand the requirements of modern and secure system landscapes
- You bring experience in building, standardising, and further developing technical systems or platforms
- You move confidently in the interface between engineering, architecture, operations, and security
- You work in a structured, independent manner with strong implementation skills and convince with leadership potential as well as entrepreneurial thinking
Ideally, you also bring:
- Experience in OT, IoT, building automation, energy, infrastructure, or industrial systems
- Practical experience in developing scalable edge or device-near architectures
- Understanding of central device management, monitoring, and lifecycle management
- Experience in defining technical standards and target architectures
- Benefits: Discount on the travel offer ITS Coop Travel, 5 times the number of Superpoints in the supermarket, up to 20% discount in all formats of the Coop Group, Reka-Card: discount on purchase, staff discount also for partner (living in the same household), discount on GA subscription, discounts on cultural events, discounts for leisure activities
- Employment conditions: Pension fund: 2/3 paid by Coop, attractive employment conditions and certified pay equality, collective labour agreement (CLA), 18 weeks paid maternity leave and 4 weeks paid paternity leave, savings plan with the pension fund
- Working hours: 5 weeks holiday
- Further training: Over 600 internal training courses, talent management with diverse development opportunities
- Sustainability: Commitment to people, animals, and nature with over 400 actions
- Communication: internal app for employees
- Health: Update Fitness: CHF 200 discount on annual subscription, free participation in various company runs
Your contact person
of the Coop Cooperative
Michèle von Däniken
HR Marketing