Vacancy

Surgical Instrument Maker (m/f/d)

The trade Tuttlingen is known for around the world. Here you do not build a sub-assembly for some anonymous end product — you build the instrument that later lies open on an operating table.

Full-time 78532 Tuttlingen Skilled trade Spine · proctology · surgery

What the role is about

Erchinger manufactures surgical instruments to its customers' order. That means what is made here carries other people's brands — but our signature. As a surgical instrument maker you are the point at which an instrument turns from a collection of precise individual parts into a working tool.

You work on instruments for spinal surgery, proctology and general surgery, in small batches and in prototype building. No cycle time, no anonymous hall — you see the finished part, and you know why it looks the way it does.

Your responsibilities

  • Manufacturing and assembling surgical instruments to drawing and specification.
  • Setting, adjusting and testing joints, fits and functions.
  • Fine finishing and rework on individual parts and sub-assemblies.
  • Functional and visual inspection plus documentation to DIN EN ISO 13485.
  • Contributing to prototype and first-article builds — in coordination with our development team.

Your profile

  • A completed apprenticeship as a surgical instrument maker (m/f/d) or a comparable precision engineering qualification.
  • Experience in assembling precision mechanical sub-assemblies, ideally in medical technology.
  • Confident reading of technical drawings.
  • A careful, independent way of working and a strong sense of quality.
  • Good written and spoken German (essential) for coordination and documentation.
A note on language: manufacturing, documentation and day-to-day coordination here run in German, and inspection records have to be written in German. Good German is therefore a genuine requirement for this role — English does not replace it.
Also worth a look

You come from precision engineering, toolmaking or watchmaking and have had nothing to do with medical technology so far? Get in touch anyway. The basic skills are the same — we will teach you the regulatory side.

What we offer

  • 30 days' annual holiday.
  • Flexible working hours.
  • Company pension scheme and capital-forming benefits.
  • Tax-free fuel vouchers.
  • Training and development — technical as well as regulatory.
  • Free mineral water, coffee and fruit.

On pay

Pay depends on qualifications and experience. We are happy to tell you the starting range before your first interview — simply ask.

How to apply

A CV and your certificates are enough. If you are applying while still employed elsewhere, we treat your enquiry confidentially, as a matter of course.

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