You enjoy creating and innovating. You never stop striving for better. You take responsibility and you get results. You love being part of a team. Above all, you want your work to matter: Welcome to our world! At Sonova we create sense by bringing sound to life. Our innovative hearing care solutions help millions of people enjoy life’s unforgettable moments.
We offer exceptional career opportunities through market-leading brands from consumer to medical, products and services that keep pushing hearing care forward, and a culture where you can quickly belong and perform at your best.
If you want the freedom to explore, opportunities to grow, and make positive change on people lives through your work, this is the place for you.
Join Sonova. Create sense.
Practical Trainee
Research & Development delivers hearing solutions and services for people with hearing loss, hearing care professionals, and further related people, in the form of hearing devices, accessories, web services, mobile applications, and PC software.
As an intern in the R&D “Biological Safety and Materials” team you will support the materials engineers in the characterization and performance evaluation of protective coatings for hearing instruments. You will prepare, run, analyze and report a variety of materials characterizations and coating performance tests, as well as improve existing test routines.
This program is limited for 6 months.
Responsibilities:
* Perform material characterization tests (e.g. contact angle, FTIR etc.)
* Execute and evaluate environmental resistance and reliability tests to assess the performance of different protective coating technologies on hearing aid devices
* Develop and/or improve test methods to assess ingress protection and optimize performance
* Support the evaluation of manufacturability and processability of different coating technologies
* Analysis, documentation and presentation of the results
Your profile:
* BSc or MSc student in the field of materials science, mechanical engineering or similar field
* Interest in the field of coating technologies
* Flair for laboratory hands-on work
* Open minded and self-motivated, communicative
* Good communication skills in English
We can offer you a new challenge, with interesting tasks and much more – including an open corporate culture, flat hierarchies, support for further training and development, opportunities to take on responsibility, an excellent range of foods, sports and cultural facilities, attractive employment conditions, and flexible working time models in various roles.
Agnieszka Baka, Talent Acquisition Manager, is looking forward to receiving your complete application via our online job application platform.
For this vacancy only direct applications will be considered.
Sonova is an equal opportunity employer.
We team up. We grow talent. We collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds to win with the best team in the market place. We guarantee every person equal treatment in regard to employment and opportunity for employment, regardless of a candidate’s ethnic or national origin, religion, sexual orientation or marital status, gender, genetic identity, age, disability or any other legally protected status.
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