Team Lead Heat Pump Development (m/f/x) 80 - 100%

Das sollten Sie über uns wissen

Everllence enables its customers to achieve sustainable value creation in the transition towards a carbon-neutral future. Addressing tomorrow’s challenges within the marine, energy and industrial sectors, we improve efficiency and performance at a systemic level.

Leading the way in advanced engineering for more than 250 years, we provide a unique portfolio of technologies. Headquartered in Germany, Everllence employs some 15,000 people at over 120 sites globally. Our after-sales brand, PrimeServ, offers a vast network of service centres to our customers all over the world.

Folgende Aufgaben können wir Ihnen anbieten

• People Leadership: Lead and develop a team of highly skilled development engineers with strong technical expertise and professional autonomy, fostering collaboration, accountability, and continuous growth.


• Technical Leadership: Act as a technical sparring partner for the team, providing guidance and decision support in the development of advanced electrical machines, particularly high-speed motor solutions.


• Product Development Responsibility: Take overall responsibility for the technical development and industrialization of Everllence’s large-scale heat pump portfolio. Drive product modularization, platform and industrialization strategies, supply chain readiness, and the development of engineering methods, design tools, and standards to ensure competitive, scalable, and cost-efficient solutions for industrial heat production.


• Strategic Planning & Execution: Define, maintain and drive the execution of the R&D roadmap for large-scale heat pump solutions in district heating applications, ensuring alignment of technology development, product portfolio evolution, market requirements, product management priorities, and overall business strategy. Translate strategic objectives into actionable development programs, balancing innovation, competitiveness, technical maturity, and time-to-market.


• Cross-Organizational Collaboration: Drive cross-site and cross-product development projects, ensuring effective interfaces to product management, manufacturing, procurement, and other business units


• Management & Stakeholder Alignment: Plan, budget, and steer development projects and initiatives across the large-scale heat pump portfolio. Lead the R&D roadmap and orchestrate interfaces across departments and external partners, proactively managing priorities, resources, dependencies, risks, and decision-making to ensure successful project delivery and business impact.


• Academic Partnerships and Representation: Establish and maintain relationships with universities and research institutions and represent the company in relevant conferences.

Mit diesen Qualifikationen helfen Sie uns weiter

• Education: Master’s degree in Engineering or equivalent technical education, preferably in plant engineering, system engineering, or mechanical engineering. Additional experience in electrical or control systems engineering is beneficial.


• Professional Experience: At least 10 years of relevant experience in development organizations, preferably in heat pumps and plant engineering.


• Leadership Capability: Demonstrated ability to lead, motivate, and develop highly skilled experts, balancing responsibility and alignment in a team of strong professionals.


• Technical Leadership: In-depth knowledge in the development, modularization, and standardization of large industrial heat pumps and strong background in the layout and process calculation of industrial heat pumps working with various refrigerants.


• Industry Background: Relevant network in the heat pump industry.


• Strategic and Organizational Skills: Strong capability to structure complex topics, set priorities, and translate strategy into executable development roadmaps.


• External Collaboration: Experience working with academic institutions, research partners, suppliers, or industry networks is a strong advantage.


• Communication: Clear and confident communication style, collaborative leadership approach, and a pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset.


• Language Skills: Fluency in German and English, both written and spoken.

Unsere Benefits für Sie

• Prime location in Zurich: Our office is located in Zurich-West, offering excellent accessibility and a vibrant working environment.


• Flexible working arrangements: We offer flexible working hours, enabling you to organize your workday in a way that supports both productivity and work-life balance.


• Family-friendly benefits: We support employees with family responsibilities through attractive and practical family-oriented benefits.


• Comprehensive social benefits & wellbeing: Our benefits package includes modern social security coverage and professional occupational health services, supporting your long-term wellbeing.


• International opportunities: We offer flexible international assignments and the opportunity to gain experience across different business areas.


• Professional development: Continuous learning, job rotation and participation in cross-functional projects are integral parts of our development culture.

Gut zu wissen

Bei Fragen können Sie sich gerne per E-Mail an Ihren Recruiter,  Karin John, wenden. E-Mail: [email protected]

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