SCHOTT Pharma Schweiz AG

Product Engineer

📍 St. Gallen

Role and responsibilities

As Product Engineer, you are our innovator and product expert. You develop new products and technologies and secure their intellectual property. You identify risks on the critical functionalities of new packaging. You execute complex roadmap and customer specific projects from idea all the way to market launch. You are responsible to plan technical work packages with senior colleagues and deliver them according to quality, delivery and cost targets, in alignment with your project manager. You support technical feasibility studies and change projects. You are willing to travel up to 20 % internationally.

Team / description

Human health matters. That is why SCHOTT Pharma designs solutions grounded in science to ensure that medications are safe and easy to use for people around the world. Every day, a team of over 4,600 people from over 60 nations works at SCHOTT Pharma to contribute to global healthcare. The company is represented in all main pharmaceutical hubs with 16 manufacturing sites in Europe, North and South America, and Asia. SCHOTT Pharma AG & Co. KGaA is headquartered in Mainz, Germany and listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange as part of the SDAX. It is part of SCHOTT AG, which is owned by the Carl Zeiss Foundation.

Qualifications and Skills

  • University degree in Engineering or Life Science

  • Working experience in product development of medical devices or pharmaceutical packaging (1+ for MSc and PhD, 3+ for Bachelors)

  • Knowledge and experience with glass, rubber or polymer products and related technologies, design control process and GMP

  • Fluency in English and German (written and spoken) with good interpersonal and communication skills with internal and external stakeholders

  • Ability to plan technical activities and work on multiple projects simultaneously, good analytical skills and ability to prioritize

  • Creativity and ability to generate intellectual property