SWISSto12 is one of the world’s fastest-growing aerospace companies, evolving from its pioneering use of 3D printing technologies for high-performance Radio Frequency (RF) products and applications to recently announcing the manufacture of entire geostationary telecom satellites, called HummingSat, that defines a new category in space.

SWISSto12 is a leading provider of Radio-Frequency (RF) products and sub-systems for aerospace applications. The company’s patented 3D printing technologies and associated product designs are unique to deliver lightweight, compact, highly performing, and competitive RF products.

SWISSto12 is also providing the HummingSat as the world’s first commercial telecom GEO SmallSat developed in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA). Its uniquely compactsize combined with highly capable telecom payloads allows telecommunications operators to deploy a cost-efficient, compact and agile asset without sacrificing performance or security. HummingSat has recently been selected by Inmarsat to build three I-8 satellites and in 2022 by Intelsat to build the I-45 satellite.

If you are looking for position where you can play an active role in contributing to innovative and growing company, this role is for you.

In this role, you will be responsible for the following:

• Responsibility for all the production operations, industrialization, process developments & improvements, and facilities of our site in Renens. This includes activities servicing our RF product lines and the HummingSat payload AIT facilities onsite as well as all test activities (RF, environmental, mechanical).
• Manage the teams in the areas under your responsibility, including team-leaders specifically addressing production of RF products, facilities, EHS, logistics and industrialization.
• Supervise the day-to-day use, and champion improvements to relevant business tools and processes in the ERP, collaboration tools, documentation or others.
• Supervise the coordination of industrialization projects, developments in materials & processes, continuous improvements. This involves leveraging existing staff resources currently allocated to the design office and production teams to create and grow a dedicated industrialization and process development team that will facilitate transitions from designs to optimized productions, drive materials & process developments, drive technology developments relevant to production and tests.
• Supervise the organization of the different areas or operations (workstations, machines, warehouses), and the selection of equipment and their maintenance (preventive and curative).
• Plan and execute the company’s growth plans in production & facilities. This includes scaling workstations, machines, capacity, facilities, footprint, lead set of new production areas and transformation projects. This includes scaling up new facilities, from selection of facilities to planning and executing construction activities and commissioning work areas.
• Hold overall responsibility of EHS aspects and continuous improvements.
• Write technical documentation, procedures, production tracking documents.
• Support projects managed by colleagues.
• Occasionally, you will be asked to participate in overall tasks and services inherent to a dynamic fast-growing company.

Required experience and competencies:

• Proven strong experience as an operations manager, preferably in the aerospace or defense industries, involving the assembly of complex subsystems, for a minimum of 10 years.
• Proven experience scaling production and test operations.
• In-depth knowledge of production and logistics management.
• Good understanding of quality standards and health & safety regulations.
• Demonstrated strong leadership skills including the ability to drive organizational development and talent acquisition and retention, team building, coaching and performance management.
• Excellent communication skills including excellent relationship building skills and ability to work in a team with different professional and cultural backgrounds.
• Attention to detail and very good organizational skills.
• Strong decision-making skills and a pragmatic results-driven approach.
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office products and usual software tools (ERP).
• Engineering degree HES, EPF or equivalent.
• Fluent in English and French.

Interested applicants are requested to apply through LinkedIn

More about SWISSto12:

SWISSto12 has successfully established contracts with Inmarsat/ViaSat, Intelsat and ESA for HummingSat as well as contracts for their RF product line in Europe and the US with prominent partners and customers such as Thales, Lockheed Martin and the ESA. SWISSto12 is a spin off from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), is privately owned and backed by prominent Swiss and European Investors. SWISSto12 is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, and operates a US-subsidiary in Foster City California and another team in New Hampshire. The company is well funded for its near and mid-term developments and backed by a solid customer revenue stream