AUTOMATION ENGINEER – TECHNICAL SUPPORT

Do you want to be a part of Technical Support in a company with a unique impact on global healthcare? Grab this opportunity to join a rapidly growing company, ready to invest in you. Here you will not only get to impact the production and development of our products; you will also have every opportunity to develop and grow your own skills. Every 2nd second, Ferrosan Medical Devices’ products help surgeons and nurses control bleedings and avoid complications in surgical procedures. We make seconds count in surgical care! And we need you on our team!

Manufacturing at Ferrosan Medical Devices

Manufacturing in Ferrosan Medical Devices consists of approximately 190 people spread across key departments – two production departments, Process Support, EHS and Technical Support, Utility & Facility. These departments work cohesively to ensure the seamless production and delivery of our cutting-edge medical devices, demonstrating a commitment to precision, efficiency, and continuous improvement adhering to Lean methodologies. This position is organized in the “Technical Support, Utility & Facility team” which consists of 24 engineers and technical staff with different technical backgrounds and is led by a Senior Manager and a Manager. You will mainly work together with two other facility colleagues.

Position Overview

Ferrosan Medical Devices is currently investing many resources in their headquarter site in Søborg. So far this has resulted in building a state-of-the-art new factory and updating the utilities, so that daily operations continue to be both energy-efficient and compliant with regulations. Furthermore, the ambition for the Automation area is to become even more robust and thereby more process-oriented through updated system descriptions and renewed processes.

As a result of the investments and renewed ambitions, Ferrosan Medical Devices is now looking to strengthen their department for Technical Support & Utilities by hiring an Automation Engineer, who can help take responsibility for the automated systems used in the manufacturing operations. Your new team consists of 24 highly skilled colleagues who enjoy helping each other and sharing their knowledge.

Your role

As Automation Engineer you will be supporting the Technical Support team with your automation knowledge, and you get to participate in various optimizing projects of production and utility systems to ensure continuous optimization of the technical equipment and machines including setting requirements, testing and documentation. Further you be participating in troubleshooting together with utilities technicians in our production facilities and utilities installations including ensuring the right electrical drawings and machine/system documentation.

During operationally critical situations you provide support to onsite technicians and process owners.

Further tasks could include:

Updating electrical documentation

Back-up of parameters in VLT/frequency converters, PLCs

Troubleshooting and service tasks on existing systems

Development tasks in collaboration with colleagues and vendors.

Participating in Testing and (re)commissioning of production machines and utility systems.

Handling compliance documentation and deviations.

About you

First and foremost, it is vital that you are a true team player and a great colleague. You have relevant technical skills, preferably supplemented with experience in automation and GMP production.

You have experience with PLC - preferably Siemens software S5, S7, TIA

You can read Siemens PLC code

Troubleshoot system PLC controller by using PLC code documents.

Have a good knowledge of frequency inverters e.g. Danfoss

Have good knowledge of machines safety, with various levels of protection

Have a good knowledge of automations div. instruments, signals, measuring principles etc.

Can read electrical wiring diagrams and use them for troubleshooting

Have good knowledge of working within GMP area and compliance.

We offer a truly purpose driven workplace where you can have real impact

We offer a truly purpose driven workplace with strong roots in values. What exactly this means is quickly visible to our new colleagues. We are driven by improving patient outcomes and we take our values to work every day – we care about each other, our environment and our customers and we win for patients with innovative high-quality solutions.

We offer an inclusive workplace with the opportunity to have real impact and a development curve, that you can steepen in the pace, that is suitable to you. You will meet a DK rooted company growing in number of international colleagues and a way of working, where hybrid, digital, learning and innovation are key words. And we take pride in having fun 😊

Some of the facts and a little piece of history

Ferrosan Medical Devices develops and produces a portfolio of medical devices used in surgical care. Our portfolio consists of various hemostatic products to minimize bleeding challenges in surgery and electromechanical medical devices to perform breast biopsies. We are an international company with products registered in more than 100 countries. Our products are marketed in collaboration with global medtech partners. New ideas are developed and matured from the first thought to finished implementation in production. And we manage the business with an uncompromising focus on quality based on current GMP requirements.

Want to join our team? 

Send your application along with your CV latest on October 20, 2024. We will process the applications as we receive them. The deadline for the job ad will be renewed upon expiry, until the right candidate has been found.

Questions? Please do not hesitate to contact us:

Carsten Johannsen

Senior Manager, Technical Support

+45 52 13 28 74

We look forward to hearing from you

Your role

As Automation Engineer you will be supporting the Technical Support team with your automation knowledge, and you get to participate in various optimizing projects of production and utility systems to ensure continuous optimization of the technical equipment and machines including setting requirements, testing and documentation. Further you be participating in troubleshooting together with utilities technicians in our production facilities and utilities installations including ensuring the right electrical drawings and machine/system documentation.

During operationally critical situations you provide support to onsite technicians and process owners.

Further tasks could include:

Updating electrical documentation

Back-up of parameters in VLT/frequency converters, PLCs

Troubleshooting and service tasks on existing systems

Development tasks in collaboration with colleagues and vendors.

Participating in Testing and (re)commissioning of production machines and utility systems.

Handling compliance documentation and deviations.

We offer a truly purpose driven workplace where you can have real impact

We offer a truly purpose driven workplace with strong roots in values. What exactly this means is quickly visible to our new colleagues. We are driven by improving patient outcomes and we take our values to work every day – we care about each other, our environment and our customers and we win for patients with innovative high-quality solutions.

We offer an inclusive workplace with the opportunity to have real impact and a development curve, that you can steepen in the pace, that is suitable to you. You will meet a DK rooted company growing in number of international colleagues and a way of working, where hybrid, digital, learning and innovation are key words. And we take pride in having fun 😊 

Want to join our team? 

Send your application along with your CV latest on October 20, 2024. We will process the applications as we receive them. The deadline for the job ad will be renewed upon expiry, until the right candidate has been found.

Questions? Please do not hesitate to contact us:

Carsten Johannsen

Senior Manager, Technical Support

+45 52 13 28 74

We look forward to hearing from you.   

Read more about us https://www.ferrosanmedicaldevices.com/