Team Leader Thin Film & Wet Etch

Axetris AG Team Leader Thin Film & Wet EtchAxetris AG, based in Central Switzerland, is a leading company for high-quality micro-optical components and MEMS-based gas detectors. Their expertise enables customised customer solutions from prototype to series production. Axetris AG is part of the global Leister Group, which is represented worldwide with around 900 employees and 130 sales partners. The Leister Group is committed to improving quality of life with innovative products. www.axetris.com Do you want to develop an engineering team both professionally and personally while driving robust processes in Thin Film & Wet Etch? In this leadership role, you combine process development, technical expertise, and support for our wafer production. Your Responsibilities • You lead and develop the Thin Film & Wet Etch engineering team, promote personal responsibility and collaboration, strengthen the professional development of your employees, and set clear priorities and goals • Together with your team, you ensure stable and high-performance thin film and wet chemical processes • You develop new processes, equipment capabilities, and manufacturing solutions from feasibility to production maturity and are responsible for their qualification, change management, and successful ramp-up • Together with internal and external partners, you define requirements for production equipment and accompany their evaluation, qualification, and further development • You ensure stable processes and equipment, efficient engineering lots, and sustainably reduce recurring technical interventions • In your resource planning, you find the right balance between production support, process improvement, and development projects • You create transparency about progress, resources, and risks and always keep quality, safety, documentation, and environmental requirements in view • You consistently implement necessary corrective and improvement measures and check their sustainable effectiveness Your Profile You are a committed and empathetic leader who enjoys taking responsibility, developing people, and advancing a team together. With your open and appreciative manner, you build trust, promote collaboration, and keep an overview even in demanding situations. You communicate clearly, approach topics in a structured and solution-oriented way, and convince through initiative and decisiveness. You hold a master’s degree in chemistry, materials science, chemical engineering, microtechnology, physics, or a comparable technical discipline and bring several years of industrial experience from the semiconductor industry, MEMS, microtechnology, or a similar high-tech production environment. Sound knowledge of thin film and/or wet chemical processes as well as the associated production equipment is part of your profile, as is experience in process development, qualification, ramp-up, and continuous improvement. Structured problem solving, process capability, risk management, and statistical methods are natural parts of your daily work. Further training in leadership, project, or quality management is an additional plus. What Awaits You With Us • Close to creation: In the brand-new cleanroom, you experience how ideas become products • Real freedom to shape things in a small team where your work has a direct impact • An interdisciplinary environment where new customer solutions arise from different perspectives • Targeted training that helps you grow, as well as attractive benefits from the international Leister Group • A modern workplace with mountain views in Central Switzerland