- Employment
- Full-Time
- Seniority
- Manager
- Industry
- Fine Watches & Horology
- Posted
- Oct 14, 2026
About ETA
ETA is a benchmark of Swiss horological expertise, renowned for designing and producing precision movements that power many of the world’s most respected watches. As part of the Swatch Group, the manufacture combines industrial excellence, technical innovation, and a deep respect for traditional watchmaking savoir-faire. As an employer, ETA offers a highly specialized environment where engineers, micromechanics, technicians, and operational talents contribute to products defined by reliability, accuracy, and refinement. The company values discipline, craftsmanship, continuous improvement, and collaborative expertise, providing careers at the heart of Switzerland’s watchmaking ecosystem and the future of mechanical and quartz movement technology.
ETA seeks a Quality Assurance Manager to lead its quality assurance team and oversee quality management for development, projects, production, and customers at its Grenchen site, supporting the Swatch and Flik Flak business unit. The role includes audits, non-conformity management, reporting, metrology, employee training, and supplier quality assessment; the position’s contract terms are not stated.
Role & Responsibilities
- Lead, motivate, and develop the quality assurance team.
- Take overall responsibility for quality management across development, projects, production, and customer quality.
- Define, implement, and monitor inspection and approval processes.
- Analyse quality metrics and initiate corrective and preventive actions.
- Contribute actively to product and process optimisation in close collaboration with production, development, and project management.
- Conduct and/or oversee site internal audits covering 5S, processes, workstations, and products, and monitor completion of the required actions.
- Manage the handling of site non-conformities.
- Prepare site quality reports, including CNQ reports, and track deviations from targets.
- Lead the on-site metrology department, including calibration and authorisation.
- Train and raise employee awareness of quality-related topics.
- Participate in supplier evaluations by assessing the quality of deliveries.
Qualifications
- Technical vocational education with further training as a qualified higher education technician (HF) or university of applied sciences engineer (FH).
- Experience in plastics engineering, particularly injection moulding, is an advantage.
- Sound knowledge of quality management.
- Excellent knowledge of quality tools.
- Several years of management experience.
- Communicative and customer-oriented.
- Reliable, highly collaborative, and able to assert themselves to achieve tasks and objectives successfully.
- Very good German and/or French, with good command of the other language; English is a significant advantage.
Skills
Experience
Several years of management experience; experience in plastics engineering, particularly injection moulding, is an advantage.
Education
Technical vocational education with further training as a qualified higher education technician (HF) or university of applied sciences engineer (FH).
Workplace
The successful candidate will be located in Grenchen, Solothurn, Switzerland.
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Benefits
Further training opportunities; internal mobility and career prospects; five or six weeks of annual leave depending on age and/or function; a 40-hour work week under the collective agreement; attractive compensation policy and social benefits; three weeks of parental leave for fathers and up to 19 weeks for mothers; company restaurant; discounts on Swatch Group and partner-company products; sports activities and company events; contribution towards health insurance.
Culture
ETA offers a workplace culture rooted in Swiss precision, technical mastery, and continuous innovation within the watchmaking industry. As an employer, it fosters collaboration between engineers, artisans, and production specialists, valuing reliability, quality, and the transmission of specialized expertise across generations.
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