Industrialization & Production Engineer — Robotics & NPI

Sunflower Labs GmbH; Sellenbüren; On-site; CHF 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from home flexibility

On-site parking

Comprehensive training on products and

Hands-on drone/robotics tech equipment

Job summary

Sunflower Labs GmbH in Zürich is seeking an experienced Manufacturing Engineer to bridge R&D and Production. You will own released product data, develop stable production processes, and create assembly instructions and SOPs for repeatable manufacturing.

The role requires hands-on experience with electronic/electromechanical products, DFM/DFA know-how, and programming or scripting in production or test environments (Python a plus). Robotics or autonomous systems experience is a plus.

Qualifications

• Several years of hands-on experience in manufacturing engineering, production engineering, industrialization, or a similar role.
• Practical experience manufacturing and troubleshooting electronic or electromechanical products.
• Strong understanding of assembly processes, production tooling, fixtures, testing, and manufacturing documentation.
• Ability to independently review drawings, tolerances, BOMs, specifications, and released engineering data.
• Practical knowledge of DFM/DFA, root-cause analysis, and structured problem solving.
• Programming or scripting skills sufficient to understand, modify, and debug production or test tools; Python or similar is a strong fit.

Responsibilities

• Own the transfer of released products, revisions, BOMs, drawings, specifications, and technical data from R&D into production.
• Perform DFM/DFA reviews and identify issues affecting manufacturability, assembly, testing, quality, cost, or cycle time.
• Provide structured manufacturing feedback to mechanical and electrical teams.
• Define production readiness and ensure engineering changes are correctly implemented on the production floor.
• Support New Product Introduction (NPI) and transition prototypes into repeatable production.
• Create, approve, and continuously maintain assembly instructions, SOPs, test instructions, inspection instructions, and rework procedures.
• Ensure production documentation always matches the latest released product revision.
• Provide day-to-day technical support to technicians and remove process or tooling-related production blockers.
• Troubleshoot assembly, test, fixture, tooling, and configuration issues and drive root-cause resolution.
• Work with R&D when production issues require design, software, test, or documentation changes.

Skills

Manufacturing engineering

NPI

Python

Lean

Problem solving

Tools

Odoo

Aligni

ERP/MRP

Job description

Sunflower Labs GmbH in Zürich is seeking an experienced Manufacturing Engineer to bridge R&D and Production. You will own released product data, develop stable production processes, and create assembly instructions and SOPs for repeatable manufacturing.

The role requires hands-on experience with electronic/electromechanical products, DFM/DFA know-how, and programming or scripting in production or test environments (Python a plus). Robotics or autonomous systems experience is a plus.