Team Lead Development & Production of High-End Wood Surfaces (m/f/d)

Your tasks

Development of high-end wood surfaces

• Developing and testing high-quality and exceptional wood surfaces
• Developing new shades, textures, haptics and surface effects
• Developing and optimising individual formulations with oils, lacquers, stains, lyes, pigments and other surface systems
• Carrying out and evaluating test series and sampling
• Testing new materials, formulations and processes in terms of appearance, haptics, durability and workability
• Continuous further development of existing surfaces
• Monitoring new materials, technologies and trends in high-end wood surfaces
• Collaborating with suppliers and development partners
• Taking new surfaces from the idea and sample development to series production

Leadership & production

• Professional and organisational leadership of a team of 6 employees
• Supporting and developing your team members
• Planning and coordinating staff, orders and production processes
• Ensuring consistently high surface and product quality
• Setting up, retooling and optimising the production equipment
• Analysing quality deviations and developing suitable solutions
• Documenting formulations, tests, quality standards and production parameters
• Material management including orders, material postings and stock control
• Continuous optimisation of production and surface processes
• Ensuring compliance with occupational safety and environmental regulations

What you bring

• Training or further education in a technical or craft field, e.g. as a painter and varnisher, carpenter, coatings technician or in surface finishing
• A very good understanding of the interplay of wood, colour, texture and surface materials
• Experience with oils, lacquers, stains, pigments or comparable surface systems
• Enjoyment of experimenting, developing and solving demanding tasks
• Technical understanding of production equipment and processes
• Leadership experience or the motivation to take responsibility for a team
• High quality awareness and an eye for detail
• Independent, structured and responsible way of working

What awaits you

• A key position with a direct influence on the quality and further development of our products
• Plenty of creative freedom in the development of new high-end wood surfaces
• The opportunity to implement your own ideas from the first sample to the finished product
• Modern production equipment and high-quality materials
• Company pension scheme
• JobRad bike leasing
• Secure job with long-term prospects
• Flat hierarchies and short decision-making paths

Your ideas. Your surfaces. Your team.

With us, you do not simply manage existing processes. You get the opportunity to develop new high-end wood surfaces, set standards and, together with your team, turn ideas into reproducible products.