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tesa Europe

Jobbeschreibung

As a multinational company, tesa develops innovative adhesive tapes and self-adhesive product solutions for various industries, commercial customers and end consumers. There are already more than 7,000 tesa adhesive solutions that help improve the work, products, or lives of our customers. Today the focus is on sustainability and energy-saving processes. tesa invests in the development of environmentally friendly products and solvent-free manufacture processes as well as in the use of renewable energy sources at its locations. tesa is active in 100 countries and operates plants in Germany, Italy, China, the USA, and soon also in Vietnam. Around three quarters of the tesa Group's sales (2022: EUR 1.7 billion euro) are generated by applications for industries. Together with its international clients, tesa develops innovations that are customized at product and process level. Already more than 130 tesa tapes may be installed in an electric car and over 70 in a smartphone. In the printing and construction industries, too, tesa is constantly penetrating new segments and countries with its special adhesive tapes. The company generates almost one quarter of its sales with products for end consumers and professional craftsmen. 300 applications, such as the legendary tesafilm®, make life easier or, when it comes to insect protection, even make it a bit more pleasant. tesa counts among the world's leading manufacturers of adhesive solutions. Since 2001, tesa SE is an independent 100% affiliate of Beiersdorf AG (i.e., NIVEA, Eucerin, la prairie) with approx. 5.000 employees today.


  • You will be part of a dynamic team which is driven by an entrepreneur spirit
  • You will be responsible for the development and implementation of application-systems for automated adhesive tape applications at tesa
  • You support our sales team and customers with technical concept development, prototype development and respective solutions of application devices (manual/fully automated) to meet customer demands
  • You will be the project manager/coordinator between tesa, industrial customers and mechanical engineering partners in critical phases leading to the realization of tape automation
  • With your flair for trends, you're always up to date and become the expert in automated tape application
  • You will visit customer's design center to identify requests for new tool developments
  • With your hands-on mentality, you verify technical concepts from first drafting up to full prototype development application devices
  • You will create the requirement profile and implementation for a new process-oriented supporting solution such as tools (manual, semi-automatic or fully automatic) or process sequence improvements
  • You are responsible for benchmarking technology and competition in the defined focus field and provide input to Product -, Technology Development and the Marketing team
  • You will support our customers with the implementation of their Industry 4.0 strategy
  • Part of your job will be creating and implementing internal and external training courses on adhesive tape application systems and technical trainings
  • Up to 50% travel activities is within your comfort zone

  • Technical engineering background with a master's or bachelor's degree, preferably mechanical engineering with at least 3 years of professional experience in product development or process engineering
  • Experience in Business development, sales-related experience, and/or technical sales experience are desired
  • You are familiar in dealing with customers and handle customer projects professionally
  • You are able to take the customer's perspective and manage to align it with tesa's expectations
  • You are able to combine analytical and conceptional competence with creative thinking approaches
  • You've gained at least 3 years of experience in technical project work with external partners, preferably also in an international environment
  • Business fluent in German and English, and if possible another foreign language
  • Knowledge of robot control, sensor technology and in the area of electronic components (e.g. switch cabinet construction, construction of parts and mechanical components)
  • You are familiar with CAS software; experiences in 3D design and sound knowledge is a plus
  • High flexibility, resilience (traveling) and open-minded for new things
  • Teamoriented and communicative
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