Watchmaker

2 weeks ago

Richmond, Australia Swatch Group Full time

**About Swatch Group**
The Swatch Group is an international group active in the design, manufacture and sale of finished watches, jewellery, watch movements and components. Swatch Group supplies components required by its 17 watch brands which include OMEGA, Longines, Tissot, Swatch and Flik Flak. Swatch Group employs more than 32,000 people in over 50 countries.

The watchmakers at our company are highly skilled in performing technical assessments and troubleshooting for mechanical timepieces. They have expertise in evaluating the resistance of these watches to magnetic fields, ensuring the precision of the rate, and testing their water resistance. Our watchmakers are also capable of completely overhauling the movements of mechanical timepieces for accuracy and precision. They possess the necessary expertise to servicing sophisticated timepieces with a very high degree of precision.
**The Role**
This full-time role is based in our Richmond workshop and is responsible for the servicing of mechanical watches in line with technical instructions and specifications. The Watchmaker must have the skills and experience necessary to service all types of watches from quartz and mechanical movements as well as chronographs. The base salary range for this position is $100,000 - $108,000 excluding super.
**Responsibilities**
- Disassemble and fault find mechanical movements
- Perform balance wheel poising and adjusting, hairspring and gear train adjustments and regulation of mechanical movements
- Achieve chronometer precision by regulating the movement by tweaking the escapement, whereby the oscillating balance wheel metes
- Place mechanism in demagnetizing machine to ensure all magnetic properties are removed
- Check and regulate timing of mechanical movement to ensure accurate rate, amplitude, beat error and power reserve
- Maintain tooling provided
- Maintain workshop equipment and inform management of any maintenance requirements in a timely manner

**Skills and Experience**
- Qualified with satisfactory completion of a watchmaking apprenticeship / WOSTEP 3000hr course (or) equivalent
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience with servicing precision mechanical timepieces (standard and chronograph)
- Ability to service timepieces to the precision criteria established by Swiss Federal Institute of Metrology (METAS) and/or COSC (Official Swiss Chronometer Testing Institute - ISO 3159)
- Excellent organisational skills and methodology
- Basic computer skills (for parts identification and technical documentation)
- Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving ability
- Ability to work towards targets and KPI’s

**How to Apply**

Job Reference: SGAU00499

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