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Your career at Datwyler

At Datwyler we have strong roots and high standards. If we are to meet these challenges, both now and in the future, we need talented and qualified employees who want to start or continue their careers in a globally active company. Because we are convinced: It’s the people who make the difference.

At the right place

Find out from some of our employees why they like working at Datwyler
Impressive level of operational excellence

Head of Business Unit Connectors
Matt Ledford

Developing products that make the world go round

Global Head of Advanced Technologies Development and Innovation / PhD Mechanical Engineering, ETH Zurich
Samira Jafari

Successful company with clear roots

Head of Wearable Sensor Development / PhD Chemical Sciences, University of Genoa
Mattia Lucchini

Being part of the family

Global Head of Sales, Healthcare
Roelant Storms

High motivation from all employees to provide the best solutions and ideas

Site Director Sao Leopoldo, Brazil
Sergio Patzlaff

Interesting development opportunities in a global environment

Head of Datwyler Production System
Amit Renuse

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IHZ Zentralinfo, Volume 2022 Issue 04

Agile planning for a dynamic world

Datwyler CEO Dirk Lambrecht talks about the urgency and benefits of agile planning in a volatile and unpredictable environment.

Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Central Switzerland IHZ, 2022/04
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About us

Shaping the future together. With Datwyler as your employer.

From the midst of the Swiss Alps to a global success story. At Datwyler, we build on our roots and bank on constant improvement. This combination makes us strong – yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Over 100 years ago, our founder Adolf Datwyler established the guiding principles that shape our identity and that we have enshrined in our corporate values.

Our daily work has always been characterized by the highest standards of quality, an innovative spirit and respectful interaction both in the team and with our partners and customers. We remain true to these values to this day. This way we ensure that our conduct will continue to be a key success factor in the future.

We develop individual solutions for customers in various industries. In that, the values that put our family-owned business on the road to success in 1915 form the basis of our entrepreneurial thinking and action: Entrepreneurship, customer focus, peak performance and respect Yet, our more than 7,000 employees are at the heart of our success at Datwyler. Because they deliver peak performance each and every day.

We respect others
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We respect others.

Datwyler offers a mutual respect atmosphere for employees to show their skills and knowledge regardless of their background. Everyone with a chance to make their voice heard, feels comfortable sharing ideas and working with their peers to accomplish their goals.

Portrait image of Jixun YuanJixun Yuan, Site Director, Wuxi (CN)
Plan for solar panels at the Indian plant 2021
Sustainability

Plan for solar panels at the Indian plant (2021).

Use of solar panels to generate electricity will help reduce intake from the public power grid. Supply of more than 2’100 MWh of electricity per year. Reduction of CO2 emission by some 1’800 tons per year. Second phase with solar panels on roof of new building (2022) will add another 2’500 MWh of electricitiy and reduce CO2-emissions by another 2’200 tons.

Plan for solar panels at Datwyler plant in Kesurdi, India

Fostering a quality mind-set
Quality

Fostering a quality mind-set.

We aim to be a pro-active organisation and use agile and innovative processes while being compliant with relevant regulations and standards. We embed quality principles in our complete value chain. We encourage cross-functional collaboration and engage everyone to achieve sustainable solutions for our customers.

Proactive chemical compliance management
Sustainability

Proactive chemical compliance management.

Datwyler goes beyond legal requirements worldwide. Increase of occupational safety of our employees. Reduction of environmental impact of our products. Natural rubber accounts for less than 1% of rubber raw materials. Customers benefit from particularly safe elastomer compounds.

Fostering an agile self-learning organization
Sustainability

Fostering an agile self-learning organization.

For our customers we want to be easy to do business with. We solve problems collaboratively and across organizational boundaries. We foster a culture of feedback and openness and empower teams and people.

Shopfloor meeting at Datwyler plant in Kesurdi, India

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Empowering our employees

The Datwyler Group operates a systematically decentralised management system within a clear framework. By taking decisions at the lowest possible level close to the market and customers, the Group fosters an entrepreneurial culture with a high level of identification and fast response times.
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Benefitting our stakeholders

More than 100 years of innovation for the benefit of our customers, employees, shareholders and the community – that is the hallmark of the Datwyler Group. We strive to deliver sustainable profitable growth for the benefit of our stakeholders as the foundation for adding long-term value and preserving the corporate independence of the Datwyler Group.
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Complying to sustainable standards

Datwyler is a participant of the UN Global Compact. This is an initiative launched by the United Nations which espouses ten principles in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and combating corruption. Find out more about our sustainability approach.
Keys to success

We rely on personal initiative...

We are constantly working to have our products set us apart from our competitors. We rely on state-of-the-art work methods and leadership strategies that sustainably promote business success. And are designed to meet the demands of modern, creative and digitally shaped work.

Our leaders see themselves as coaches and promoters. That is how we create an environment in which our employees can contribute their creativity and all their talents and expertise. Our striving for quality and our desire for continuous improvement are what drives our 8305 motivated employees worldwide (end of 2018) every single day. Do you agree? Then become a part of it and take a look at our current job opportunities!

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...and our employees as the keys to our success.

Our employees are at the heart of our corporate culture. We all work in concert – day after day to achieve the best outcomes and with a shared self-image of our actions.

Every employee is part of our success story. Every employee contributes to success with their decisions on a daily basis and makes the difference between good and excellent.

And this is exactly what our globally operating customers appreciate. Because our system-critical sealing components are used worldwide in every second car and in billions of syringes and medicine bottles. The ideas and commitment of every Datwyler employee contribute to the safety of drivers and patients around the world.

Be yourself at Datwyler.

At Datwyler, we firmly believe that our company can only thrive if every single one of our employees is able to realise their potential to the full and is deployed where their personal strengths are called upon. If everyone can be themselves and feel fully invested in what we do, together we will achieve lasting success.

Our employees are at the very heart of Datwyler – we interact with respect, trust and loyalty. Mutual consideration and appreciation are key.

As a steadily growing, globally operating company, our goals are ambitious. Our path is strewn with daily challenges, which we readily take on as one team. We are looking for determined and dedicated individuals who strive to realise their full potential: together, we will achieve great things.

Why Datwyler

We foster an open working climate

We offer ambitious individuals who approach their task with dedication and enthusiasm the right environment to excel and grow. This gives every employee the opportunity to influence the way we work.

We offer a diverse working environment

As a globally operating company, Datwyler offers a broad spectrum of occupational profiles and career oppor­tunities. We therefore enable our employees to bring their talent to a global context and grow their competencies.

We support your development

We know that our company’s success depends directly on the talents and abilities of our employees. We therefore invest heavily in the systematic and sustained development of competencies, building on individual life journeys and ambitions.

We care about our employees

Our employees are at the very heart of Datwyler – we interact with respect, trust and loyalty. Mutual consideration and appreciation are key. Additionally, we rely on our values and act accordingly. This is just one of the reasons why our employees enjoy working for Datwyler.

We enable you to organise yourself

We want our employees to enjoy their work, no matter where they are located. Our flexible working time model provides the right environment to do so. Datwyler employees can mostly organise their tasks themselves. We enable them to make the most of their working life without neglecting their private life.

We grant fair employment conditions

The companies within the Datwyler Group are keen to promote equal opportunities, equality of treatment, and fair conditions of employment, as well as paying fair wages and offering social security benefits in line with relevant country and sector benchmark.

We make great demands on ourselves and are therefore always on the lookout for talented employees, tinkerers, thinkers and drivers of innovation, who want to contribute their individual strength and help advance Datwyler as a whole.

Apply with us and become part of our success story!

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Datwyler is an equal opportunity employer and strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination based upon an individual’s race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin/ancestry, age, mental/physical disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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