Driven by the passion to improve quality of people’s lives, WSA continues to grow as a market leader in the hearing aid industry. With our commitment to increase penetration in an underserved hearing care market, we want to accelerate our business transformation in order to reach more people, more effectively.

In this role you will be part of the mechanical design team in the department of Initial and Special Products developing cutting-edge hearing aids and earwear for WSA's brands. The team is involved in most aspects of the product development cycles incl. early-stage forefront projects, concepting, prototyping, detailed design, maturation for production, documentation, testing, verification and investigating field returns. We work closely with other disciplines such as electro-acoustic designers, wireless antenna designers, and hardware designers just to mention a few, and we have state-of-the-art in-house production, testing and prototyping facilities.

You will assist the mechanical design team with a wide variety of tasks to support the ongoing development projects and activities to improve our methods and tools. Depending on your personal interests and competence, there is also an opportunity to join special development / investigation projects.

Examples of what you will do

• Ideation and concepting activities

• Measurements of parts

• Testing of components and developing test methods

• Improving tools, guidelines and best practices

• Updating 2D drawings using PTC CREO

• Designing jigs for 3D printing

• Preparing prototypes

What you bring

Experience

• Minimum 3rd year student (bachelor level) in relevant field of engineering such as mechanical design, design and innovation, materials, manufacturing, etc.

Personal competencies

• Competent skills in CAD modeling, preferably PTC CREO

• Able to work independently, act proactively, being curious and asking questions when needed

• Motivated to work in a multidisciplinary field with many stakeholders and many unknowns

• Structured and analytical mindset
  

Who we are

At WSA, we provide innovative hearing aids and hearing health services.

Together with our 12,000 colleagues in 130 countries, we invite you to help unlock human potential by bringing back hearing for millions of people around the world.

With us, you will become part of a truly global company where we care for one another, welcome diversity and celebrate our successes.

Sounds wonderful? We can't wait to hear from you.

WSA is an equal-opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for all. Regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status we firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic self.