Teamlead Planning MRO
- 15 October 2026
- 80 – 100%
- Permanent position
- German (Fluent), English (Intermediate)
- Thun
About the job
Around 3000 employees from RUAG and RUAG Real Estate make a significant contribution to Switzerland's security every day. They ensure that the Swiss Army as well as other operational and security organisations can fully perform their tasks at any time.Teamlead Planning MRO
80 - 100
Thun
What you can achieve
- You lead and coordinate the AVOR/PPS team and are responsible for production planning and control in the MRO environment.
- You plan capacities and resources, create and monitor manufacturing and maintenance orders, and ensure timely material availability.
- You coordinate collaboration with purchasing, production, logistics, and sales, keeping an eye on delivery dates, inventories, and throughput times.
- You ensure the quality of master data, bills of materials, and work plans and continuously optimise planning and production processes.
- You identify improvement potentials and drive lean management, digitalisation, and automation as well as the further development of ERP/PPS systems.
- You analyse relevant key figures, prepare reports, and derive appropriate measures from them.
What you bring with you
- You have a technical or commercial basic education with appropriate further training, for example as a process specialist or certified technician HF.
- You bring several years of experience in AVOR, PPS, or production planning, ideally in the MRO environment, and are familiar with capacity planning, scheduling, and maintenance processes.
- You have experience with ERP/PPS systems, preferably SAP (PM, PP, MM), as well as good knowledge of materials management, master data, bills of materials, and work plans.
- You have leadership experience and ideally knowledge in lean management, continuous improvement process (CIP), and the optimisation or automation of planning processes.
- You communicate clearly and solution-oriented, set priorities confidently, and convince through assertiveness, organisational talent, and decisiveness.
- You enjoy working across departments, take responsibility, and keep an overview even in demanding situations.
- You have very good German skills; English skills are an advantage.
Do you not meet all the requirements one hundred percent? Apply anyway. We are always looking for talented and motivated people who want to enrich our team. We place great value on diversity and equal opportunities, and our goal is to build a diverse team where everyone can fully develop their personal strengths. We especially encourage all people, regardless of gender, who may have concerns about taking a position in a military-related environment, to apply.
About the department
We keep Switzerland operationally ready.
Behind every successful maintenance are people who think ahead, coordinate, and find solutions together. In the MRO environment, we combine production planning, material availability, and efficient processes into a functioning whole. Our goal is clear: to use resources optimally, meet deadlines, and ensure the operational readiness of our systems. As a team, we thus make an important contribution to Switzerland's security.
Your benefits
Salary and benefits
We offer you a performance-oriented and market-appropriate salary, 13 monthly salaries, as well as generous bonuses and allowances. Together with other benefits, this results in an attractive overall package.
We place great importance on our employees finding a healthy balance between work and private life. Therefore, we offer, among other things, flexible working hours and home office options.
Flexible working
Discounts
At RUAG, you benefit from discounts in the areas of mobility and catering. In addition, you benefit from attractive offers on our benefit portal and have fleet discounts with various renowned car brands.
Advancement and training opportunities
It is important to us to promote and develop the potential of our employees. Through training, courses, and further education, we support them in continuously expanding their skills to achieve their professional goals.
Leisure offers
Our employees are close to our hearts. That is why we give them a day off on their birthday, offer a diverse sports programme, and the possibility to take additional days off with salary deduction in addition to the annual holiday entitlement.
Your contact person
Lars Thomann
Talent Acquisition Specialist
lars.thomann@ruag.ch