Global Head of Engineering (m/w/d)

The Interroll Group is the leading global provider of material-handling solutions. The company was founded in 1959 and has been listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange since 1997.

Interroll provides system integrators and OEMs with a wide range of platform-based products and services in these categories: Rollers (conveyor rollers), Drives (motors and drives for conveyor systems), Conveyors & Sorters as well as Pallet Handling (flow storage systems).

Interroll products and solutions are used in express and postal services, e-commerce, airports, the food & beverage industry, fashion, automotive sectors and many other manufacturing industries. Among the end users are leading brands such as Amazon, Bosch, Coca-Cola, DHL, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, Siemens, Walmart and Zalando.

Headquartered in Switzerland, Interroll has a global network of 36 companies with sales of CHF 527.1 million and around 2,300 employees (average number of employees in 2024).

• Global responsibility for the Engineering division in accordance with the Chief Technology Officer’s (CTO) specifications
• Integrated product development with platform and product management, production and purchasing to ensure market-compliant and production-ready solutions
• Establishment and further development of a high-performance, cross-functional, global engineering organization through the further development of a systematic and key performance indicator-oriented approach
• Establishment and development of global locations to regionalize development expertise and strengthen the APAC and AMERICAS regions
• Promotion of a collaborative culture between locations and the disciplines of mechanics, electrics, embedded systems and software development
• Overall responsibility for the technical implementation of product developments and platform solutions
• Continuation of a model-based systems engineering methodology for virtual validation in conjunction with subsequent physical, data-supported validation to shorten development times while improving quality
• Development of modular product architectures to promote configurability, high commonality of parts and efficient product maintenance throughout the product life cycle

• Master degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, mechatronics, computer science or similar
• Minimum 5 years relevant experience in automation technology and OT/IT networking and/or intralogistics
• Relevant professional experience in an international development environment with cross-functional management responsibility
• Very good knowledge of German and English (at least C1 level)
• Strong leadership and communication skills and high degree of creativity and solution-oriented thinking
• Intercultural competence and willingness to travel
• Strategic thinking with a hands-on mentality
• Strong identification with our corporate values: Long-term thinking, Committed to excellence, Always respectful, Passionate about customers

• Attractive employer benefits: Secure job in a growing, international company
• Open corporate culture: Individual induction, various team events
• Agile working environment: Modern and well-equipped workplace, short decision-making processes thanks to flat hierarchies
• Personal development as well as varied and responsible tasks
• The opportunity to contribute your own ideas and increase innovative strength
• Many additional benefits: job bike, urban Sports, free parking, discounted lunch, etc.
• 30 days vacation
• Flexible organization of mobile office and on-site work