Innovation Engineer - 80% to 100% — HUG
- Location
- Genève
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- Today
Role overview
Company description
With more than 13,000 employees representing 160 professions, the University Hospitals in Geneva are a reference institution at the national and international level.
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- Company description
- With more than 13,000 employees representing 160 professions, the University Hospitals in Geneva are a reference institution at the national and international level.
- You have a higher education (university, HES or equivalent) in project management, engineering, innovation or in a field deemed relevant, and have experience in a similar function, ideally within an innovation or transformation environment.
- You have a strong interest in innovation, especially in the field of health, and master the main related methods and tools, such as thinking design, solution prototyping, user testing and collective intelligence approaches.
Key requirements
- You have a higher education (university, HES or equivalent) in project management, engineering, innovation or in a field deemed relevant, and have experience in a similar function, ideally within an innovation or transformation environment.
- You have a strong interest in innovation, especially in the field of health, and master the main related methods and tools, such as thinking design, solution prototyping, user testing and collective intelligence approaches.
- You are comfortable with office tools, including Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
- Additional technical expertise, such as CAD modelling, development, data analysis or health technologies, is an asset.
- With or equipped with excellent analytical, synthesis and writing skills, you have a perfect command of French in both oral and written terms.
- You can manage multiple projects simultaneously, define priorities and work independently while working effectively with interlocutors with different profiles.
- Evolved with ease in an ever-changing environment, you show adaptability, discernment and coolness in the face of unforeseen events.
Application process
- Your mission is to create the conditions for the emergence, maturation and implementation of new products, services or process improvements (applications, medical devices, tools, organizational solutions, etc.), using collaborative and user-centred approaches.
- As such, you continuously stimulate the generation of ideas and accompany innovation projects from design to implementation.
- You analyze the issues, needs and uses in order to define clear specifications integrating issues, objectives, scopes and deliverables.
- You contribute to the design of innovative solutions adapted to the needs identified and support their realization through the realization of prototypes, models, digital plans or user stories.
- More specifically, you challenge initial ideas and assumptions with project promoters by assessing their usefulness, desirability, feasibility and sustainability, in order to direct initiatives towards high impact solutions aligned with institutional priorities.
- In a logic of efficiency and sustainability, you promote the pooling of existing resources and projects, both internally and with external partners, by identifying synergies and limiting redundancy.
- You support innovators and innovators in the development of high value-added solutions that meet the needs of users.
- You manage the various phases of the projects, including the idea, formalization of functional and technical specifications, prototyping, validation of feasibility and acceptability, and preparation of implementation.
Contacts
- Paper and e-mail applications will not be processed.
- Enquiries: [email protected]
Company and context
- Your sense of organization, rigor and concern for quality allow you to produce reliable and relevant deliverables.
- Recognized or recognized for your initiative, creativity and orientation solutions, you appreciate teamwork and develop relationships of trust through your listening skills, diplomacy and excellent relationship.
- Curious or curious, proactive or proactive and endowed or endowed with a strong learning capacity, you enjoy exploring new topics and actively contributing to the emergence of innovative ideas and projects.
- Any additional expertise or experience that adds value to the Innovation Centre will be welcome. Further information Start: as soon as possible Number of posts: 1 Activity rate: 80% to 100% Function class: 18 Contract: 1-year CDD, renewable
Additional details
- There are more than 70 innovative projects catalyzed per year. Description of post
- Any additional expertise or experience that adds value to the Innovation Centre will be welcome. Further information Start: as soon as possible Activity rate: 80% to 100% Contract: 1-year CDD, renewable
Notes and original content
- There are more than 70 innovative projects catalyzed per year.
- Description of post
- Qualifications
- Any additional expertise or experience that adds value to the Innovation Centre will be welcome.
- Further information
- Start: as soon as possible
- Number of posts: 1
- Activity rate: 80% to 100%
- Function class: 18
- Contract: 1-year CDD, renewable
Questions about this listing
What salary does HUG offer for this role?
HUG lists CHF 71'000 - 107'500 gross per year for this position in Genève. This is the salary published in the original listing (or, when the employer omits a figure, a realistic estimate for the role and sector) — the calculator on this site converts it to your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does HUG offer?
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