Technology is our beat.
Technology rocks.

We rock technology. With high-tech industrial solutions. From Schalksmühle to the world. Do you want to join us?

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Building the best machines together.

Successful with high-tech industrial solutions

From Schalksmühle to the world: At SOMA we successfully construct individual high-tech industrial solutions for the productions of our international customers. We independently develop complete system solutions and are always available to our customers as a competent contact partner throughout the entire project. We take mechanical engineering to new levels of precision and set the beat. And this in direct interaction between our three business divisions:

  • Test Technology & Automation
    We are an international system supplier for testing and automation technology in plant engineering.

  • Dosing Technology
    We are a manufacturer of innovative and patented dosing technology for industrial lubricants.

  • Worker Assistance
    We digitise manual production: With our flexAssistant as a smart software solution for workers.

Technology is our beat

It's our heart. We work in teams, using intuition to solve our solutions and our customers' challenges. Sharing ideas and knowledge across business units brings us closer together and helps everyone grow. 

Are you passionate about technology? Then we want to hear from you.



50 years experience

1000+ installed systems in 23 countries

90+ employees in Schalksmühle

Thousands of grilled sausages

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SOMA: Future preprogrammed.

Exciting projects, cool technology

At SOMA, versatile, challenging projects are in the pipeline. We are looking for reinforcements to set the beat with us: Direct cobots and hovering workpiece carriers, create the next generation of vision systems. High voltage: Control high currents, connect high voltages with complex measurement technology. Straight forward: Develop individual software applications with the newest tools. As part of the SOMA team, you bring unique high-end systems to life and show our customers what technology can rock.

Top colleagues, strong know-how

Our decision-making channels are short, and good ideas meet with open ears. We have the necessary space for experimentation and further development. Our cooperation and daily work are characterised by collegiality and curiosity. We provide each other with impulses: interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge across the individual teams and fringes, training and opportunities for further development secure our expert knowledge. We deal honestly, openly and appreciatively with each other and the daily challenges.

Work-Life-Flow

Situated on the edge of the Sauerland region, Schalksmühle offers an attractive living environment with plenty of shopping facilities, a wide range of restaurants, and easily accessible kindergartens and schools. Housing here is affordable and, most importantly, available. If you want to be active in your free time, there are plenty of options: Hiking around the dams, leisurely cycling along the Volme or downhill biking in the Sauerland Bike Arena, climbing on the Lenne or in the Altena indoor climbing centre, swimming, canoeing and much more. Thanks to the many local sports clubs, it is easy to make new friends in Schalksmühle and to enjoy your favourite activities with them.

Design working time

You can organise your time with us individually. We offer flexible arrangements: 35-hour weeks, mobile working opportunities and flexitime models with personal scope.

Unleash your own potential

Your personal development is important to us because we want to work with you for the long term. We offer you individual training, extensive qualification opportunities and career prospects, including internationally.

Earn good money

You give us your power - we appreciate that and pay you in accordance with the Metal and Electrical Industry Collective Agreement, with holiday pay, Christmas pay and additional payments.

Doing it together

Collegiality is very important to us: the cross-team exchange in the project and privately, the chat during the break and the spontaneous pizza together. These are the little things that make up our corporate culture. We're also sporty: whether it's the company run, football tournaments or bowling, a SOMA team is always up for it.

More for you

Last but not least, we offer you goodies to support you: company pension scheme, bicycle leasing, numerous company benefits, attractive training programmes and state-of-the-art technology.

Your new job at SOMA

Professionals

Training / Composite studies

Simply apply for our current vacancies by e-mail. Can’t see the perfect role for you? Let us know what we’re missing and send us your speculative application.

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What colleagues at SOMA say:

The whole package is just right. I particularly like the family atmosphere in the company. You get the feeling that everyone knows everyone else.

Philipp Severin
Electrical designer

I am enthusiastic about the opportunities for personal development: Supervisors are open to suggestions and improvements and are happy to give appreciative feedback.

Bettina Bommer
Purchasing clerk

Cutting-edge technology and almost every system is unique - that's what inspires me! I have a great team, which in turn inspires our customers. The flat hierarchies give us room for creativity and our own ideas.

Wolfgang Thater
Sales Manager

I work on exciting projects using the latest development tools. Even in stressful times I can count on my colleagues. The technology transfer in the team is great and we all benefit from it.

Roman Vetter
Software developer

Feel the SOMA Beat

Experience in VR: All the systems we have already rocked live.

Get your own impression of the systems we have built for our customers and which are now in service all over the world. Our virtual tour offers you an interesting insight into the entire world of SOMA machines - almost to touch.

Start SOMA Tour

Take a look behind the scenes: SOMA @LinkedIn

What are the future colleagues doing right now? Trade fair, business trip, barbecue outside: We are active on LinkedIn – it's worth taking a look behind the scenes and maybe the first link to the SOMA team will come up. So feel free to drop by.

SOMA on LinkedIn

From Schalksmühle into the world ;-)

Date Exhibition / Topics Location Information
25. – 26. February 2025 all about automation
Dosing Technology		 Friedrichshafen, Germany Learn more
24. – 27. June 2025 automatica
Dosing Technology, Worker Assistance		 Munich, Germany Learn more
07. – 09. October 2025 Motek
Dosing Technology, Worker Assistance		 Stuttgart, Germany Learn more
18. – 21. November 2025 productronica
Testing Technology, Automation, Worker Assistance		 Munich, Germany Learn more

Any questions left?

Your contact for all questions about working at SOMA and the application process

Phillip Spannagel
Email: karriere@soma.de
Phone: +49 2351 7894 383

Contact us

SOMA GmbH. A company of the KOSTAL Group. Applications at kostal.com/en-gb/careers

Photo credits - Hiking: Sauerland-Tourismus e.V. / Jonas Dülberg / REACT-EU; Camping: Sauerland-Tourismus e.V. / Paul Masukowitz / REACT-EU; Glörtalsperre: Above at the Volme (or) Sauerland-Tourismus / Klaus-Peter Kappest; Kayak: Südwestfalen Agentur GmbH/ Patrick Bonzel; Climbing: Südwestfalen Agentur GmbH/ Patrick Bonzel; Mountain biking: Sauerland-Tourismus e.V. / Ralf Schanze