Head of Global Test & Metrology - Semiconductor Industry - 100% | Location: Switzerland

Our client is the global market leader in a niche technology for the semiconductor industry. Their components are engineered into the production systems of the world's leading chipmakers and equipment manufacturers - critical, high-reliability parts that make modern chip production possible. Many engineers and technicians have built their careers there over 15, even 20 years. They are not a machine builder - they are the critical sub-system supplier that OEMs rely on for reliability, performance, and continuous innovation. The Role We are looking for a Head of Global Test Lab to lead a global test and validation organization into its next chapter: a lab that is not only operationally excellent today, but digitally native, data-driven, and scalable across multiple international sites. You will lead a multi-layered organization of several Team Leads and a combined team of roughly 20–25 engineers and technicians, spanning product testing, applications engineering, and industrialization. Your lab safeguards the performance and reliability of every product platform shipped - through pressure control testing, lifecycle and endurance testing, particle and leak detection, thermal testing, and materials analysis, across sites in Europe, Asia, and North America. This is a hands-on leadership role. You will spend real time in the lab - not only in strategy meetings - while shaping a five-year vision for how testing, data, and automation come together at global scale. Tasks What You Will Own • Digital Test Lab & Data Backbone Today, test data lives across disconnected systems and site-specific tools. You will lead the transition to a unified, structured data architecture - enabling data reuse, cross-site analytics, and the foundation for smarter, faster testing decisions. • Automation & Test Throughput Many lab processes are still manual. You will drive the automation of test execution and data processing, increasing throughput without compromising the rigor