Head of Global Test & Metrology - Semiconductor Industry - 100% | Location: Switzerland
CONCAPEOur client is the global market leader in a niche technology for the semiconductor industry. Their components are engineered into the production systems of the world's leading chipmakers and equipment manufacturers - critical, high-reliability parts that make modern chip production possible. Many engineers and technicians have built their careers there over 15, even 20 years.
They are not a machine builder - they are the critical sub-system supplier that OEMs rely on for reliability, performance, and continuous innovation.
The Role
We are looking for a Head of Global Test Lab to lead a global test and validation organization into its next chapter: a lab that is not only operationally excellent today, but digitally native, data-driven, and scalable across multiple international sites.
You will lead a multi-layered organization of several Team Leads and a combined team of roughly 20–25 engineers and technicians, spanning product testing, applications engineering, and industrialization. Your lab safeguards the performance and reliability of every product platform shipped - through pressure control testing, lifecycle and endurance testing, particle and leak detection, thermal testing, and materials analysis, across sites in Europe, Asia, and North America.
This is a hands-on leadership role. You will spend real time in the lab - not only in strategy meetings - while shaping a five-year vision for how testing, data, and automation come together at global scale.
Tasks
What You Will Own
- Digital Test Lab & Data Backbone
Today, test data lives across disconnected systems and site-specific tools. You will lead the transition to a unified, structured data architecture - enabling data reuse, cross-site analytics, and the foundation for smarter, faster testing decisions.
- Automation & Test Throughput
Many lab processes are still manual. You will drive the automation of test execution and data processing, increasing throughput without compromising the rigor our industry demands.
- Global Process Maturity
With sites in Europe and Asia, and further expansion planned, you will establish common standards, comparable methods, and shared governance - so quality and speed don't depend on which site runs the test.
- Team & Capability Development
You will lead technical leaders and their teams, developing capability across a workforce that ranges from senior PhDs to technicians with decades of hands-on production experience. Your ability to connect with both is essential.
- Customer-Centric & Application Testing
While your primary focus is internal test capability, you will maintain a clear line of sight to how components perform in real customer applica
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