Team Leader Processing Plant (m/f/d)

About the job

Do you want not only to collaborate but also to take responsibility and lead a production team?

In this versatile role, you will ensure the smooth operation of our processing plant together with your team, coordinate daily workflows, and actively contribute to the development of processes, quality, and safety. If you combine technical understanding with leadership skills, we look forward to your application.

• Professional and disciplinary leadership of the production team as well as deployment and resource planning
• Ensuring a trouble-free, efficient, and safe operation of the processing plant as well as responsibility for achieving production targets and high plant availability
• Monitoring and optimisation of production processes including ensuring and further developing quality standards
• Recording, evaluating, and reporting relevant operational and production data as well as planning and coordinating maintenance and servicing work in cooperation with the workshop
• Operating and monitoring the processing plant as needed
• Responsibility for managing the input and output warehouse
• Promoting safe working practices, compliance with requirements in the areas of quality, safety, and environment, as well as identifying and implementing improvements for continuous optimisation of workflows and processes

• Completed technical or craft training, ideally related to production, process, or processing technology
• Several years of professional experience in an industrial or technical environment as well as initial leadership experience or the motivation to take responsibility for a team
• Good organisational skills and a structured, solution-oriented working style
• Forklift licence mandatory
• Good German language skills in spoken and written form as well as confident use of common PC applications
• High initiative, assertiveness, and sense of responsibility combined with a team-oriented personality and strong communication skills
• Flexibility and willingness to work shifts as required by operational needs

• With your job, you actively contribute to environmental protection and resource conservation
• Lots of freedom, independence, and responsibility in your tasks
• Stability and a secure workplace
• Flat hierarchies and straightforward decision-making processes
• Family-oriented corporate culture: with us, you are not just a number
• At least 25 days holiday / 30 days from the 11th year of service or from the age of 50
• Thommen Academy (internal training and development opportunities for our employees)
• Good social benefits (above-average continued salary payment in case of accident and illness, pension fund without loss risk)

The Thommen Group is one of the leading European recycling companies with roots in Switzerland. With our three strong brands Thommen, Metallum, and Immark, we offer complete recycling solutions for industry, trade, and municipalities. With over 30 locations in five countries, the Thommen Group is globally networked and an important link in the economic cycle. As a producer of high-quality recycled raw materials, we create and conserve resources.

Katja Hurter will answer your questions about the application process.