Grenchen
Specialist for Cutting Tools 80–100% | Application Technology
- 19 October 2026
- 80 – 100%
- Permanent position
- German (Fluent), French (Intermediate)
About the job
You combine your expertise in machining with a passion for customer contact. As the technical interface between customers, field service, and production, you independently drive smaller projects forward – from technical clarification to the implementation of the tool solution.
Your main tasks include:
- Design, construction, and definition of special tools for production
- Conducting feasibility analyses for customer-specific special solutions
- Independent management of smaller customer projects: clarifying requirements, coordinating technical solutions, and tracking deadlines until implementation
- Technical advice to customers and support of the field service with application-related questions
- Planning and conducting technical customer meetings
- Tool design with ESCO, KISSsoft, and DINO
- Creation of 2D and 3D drawings with CAD, especially AutoCAD and Inventor
- Optimisation and further development of existing tools
- Assessment of tools in the area of re-sharpening and creation of corresponding orders
Your profile
You know the practical requirements of machining, approach people openly, and gladly take responsibility for technical solutions. You can capture customer needs and communicate them clearly with internal and external contacts.
You bring the following:
- Completed basic training as a polymechanic EFZ, designer EFZ, or a comparable technical education
- Advantageous: higher technical education HF, such as technician HF mechanical engineering, production technology, or comparable
- Several years of practical experience in machining, especially in turning or milling
- Experience in the design and application of cutting tools
- User knowledge in ESCO and KISSsoft
- Good CAD skills, preferably with AutoCAD and Inventor
- Confident handling of common IT applications and enthusiasm for digital working tools
- Very good German language skills in spoken and written form
- Good French skills (level B2) are a great advantage
- Independent, precise, and solution-oriented working style as well as initiative in implementing smaller projects
- Outgoing personality with enjoyment of customer contact and teamwork
Would you like to apply your manufacturing knowledge more in technical consulting, tool design, and project work? Then we look forward to getting to know you.
What we offer you
With us, you can expect an exciting and varied range of tasks in an internationally active SME with short communication paths, technical scope for creativity, and a collegial team.
You benefit from:
- 5 weeks of holiday
- 40-hour week
- Flexible working hours
- Possibility for home office
- Attractive employment conditions
- Free parking and close to public transport
- Above-average social benefits and profit sharing
- A respectful, collegial working atmosphere
- Room for personal responsibility and own ideas
- Practical induction in a specialised technical environment
- Long-term prospects in a healthy, future-oriented company
Interested?
Would you like to contribute your technical know-how and develop innovative tool solutions together with us?
Then we look forward to receiving your complete application. Direct applications are preferred.