Our company is further expanding by setting up a brand-new manufacturing site located in Nidau. Due to our company’s continued growth and expansion, we are recruiting a

Lead Manufacturing 100% (Final Packaging)

Job Description

• Organize and Allocate Workload: Efficiently assign daily and weekly tasks to operators in alignment with production targets and priorities, ensuring the team meets planned output and quality.

• Ensure EHS/GMP and QMS Compliance: Oversee adherence to Environmental Health & Safety (EHS), Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and Quality Management System (QMS) standards, including proper documentation in controlled manufacturing environment.

• Monitor and Improve Production Performance: Track key production metrics (quantities, yields, cycle times), update Key Performance Indicators, identify improvement opportunities, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and optimize processes.

• Team Leadership and Training: Coordinate a team of 8-15 operators by scheduling (vacations, absences and Saturday work), participating in hiring, delivering feedback and performance evaluations, and ensuring all team members complete required trainings.

• Inventory and Resource Management: Manage inventory both physically and in ERP systems for the area, provide feedback on staffing and resource needs, and organize materials and personnel to ensure smooth daily operations.

Your profile

• You must have several years of professional experience in a similar position with Team Management, preferably in a medical technology environment (Clean Room)
• Very good knowledge of English as well as German and/or French (oral as well as written)
• Very good PC skills, especially MS Office
• Flexible, resilient and team player personality with very good communication skills
• Quality-conscious, organized and reliable way of working

The right decision: working at STAAR Surgical

STAAR Surgical offers you the ideal environment to develop your career and to progress professionally and personally, within a multicultural and international company. We also offer the following benefits:

• 40 working hours a week
• Modern working spaces
• Minimum 25 days of vacations
• Modern cafeteria spaces
• Monthly contribution to health insurance costs
• Training and development plans
• Free parking spaces as well as very good connections to public transportation
• Regular social company events such as summer party/ party

If you want to contribute to the Evolution in visual freedom™ and become part of our passionate team, send us your full application.

For more information, please reach out to our HR Team () or visit us online at