JKS Engineering AG
Nänikon
Design Manager / Technical Project Manager 80-100% (m, f) Thurgau Region
- 15 October 2026
- 80 – 100%
- Permanent position
- German (Native language), English (Intermediate)
Skills
Design ManagerAbout the job
This is what gets you up in the morning:
You are part of interdisciplinary development and project teams in various compositions. As a committed and innovative personality, you develop excellent products with us.
- Development and Design: You have design responsibility for customer-specific projects and develop solution proposals for assemblies and individual parts to be developed. The responsibility for packaging space and interface management also lies with you.
- Project Management: You are responsible for ensuring the defined milestones and costs, compliance with customer guidelines, as well as packaging space, interface, and target cost management, and you lead the project-related assigned designers professionally.
- Collaboration: You work closely with customers and internal departments such as manufacturing, quality assurance, service, and with external suppliers to guarantee successful project implementation.
What we expect from you:
- Education: Technical basic training and successfully completed studies (ETH/FH engineer) in mechanical engineering, systems engineering, mechatronics, or a comparable engineering discipline.
- Experience: At least 4 years of professional experience after graduation in development and design as well as in technical project management, experience in vehicle construction is an advantage, leadership experience is an advantage.
- Expertise: Profound knowledge of 3D CAD systems (Siemens NX is an advantage). Knowledge of PLM and ERP systems (e.g. SAP, Team Center) is an advantage.
- Soft Skills: Passion for product development, strong problem-solving skills, quick comprehension, as well as good teamwork skills.
- Languages: Very good German skills, good English skills in spoken and written form.
- Residence in Switzerland, in the Winterthur/Thurgau region.
Why you are right with us:
- Passion: Engineer with great enthusiasm for mechanical and vehicle construction.
- Commitment: High commitment to the success of our customer projects.
- Responsibility: Great independence and personal responsibility.
- Implementation: Solution- and goal-oriented approach.
- Resilience: Resilient and willing to work on site with the JKS team at our customers.
What you can look forward to:
- Family atmosphere: Flat hierarchy, short decision-making paths, motivated team.
- Variety: Exciting challenges in an agile, constantly changing environment.
- Support: Professional & personal development as well as financial participation in further training.
- And more: Barbecue parties, Christmas party, team events, free parking spaces.
Work location:
On site at the customer in Thurgau (compensation system for longer commute than to Nänikon)
Start of work:
Immediately or by arrangement
Would you like to become part of the JKS team?
Then apply now!
Send us your complete application documents by e-mail to Annemarie Stadelmann
Dossiers from employment agencies will only be considered after prior telephone arrangement