Controls and Maintenance Engineer

We are living in the bio-century. Global medical knowledge is expanding at a rapid pace. But despite huge breakthroughs, many diseases, such as cancer, rheumatism or Alzheimer's, are still not curable. Sartorius is part of the solution. We help to ensure that new scientific discoveries can be translated more quickly into effective patient care. With technologies, platforms and partnerships for a common goal: better health for more people. More than 14,000 employees at over 60 production and sales locations worldwide support our customers with innovative technologies that make the development and manufacture of innovative therapeutics faster and more efficient.

In the United Kingdom, Sartorius currently employs more than 1000 people at six sites in Epsom, Glasgow, Havant, Royston, Stonehouse and Nottingham. As one of the fasted-growing global life science companies, we are looking for people who share our ambition and want to make a contribution in a vibrant environment while growing their careers. Join our global team and grow with us.

Do you have experience servicing and repairing electrical equipment? or Are you recently completed studies or apprenticeship in Electrical Engineering and looking to take the next step in your career as a Controls and Maintenance Engineer?

We are looking for a Controls and Maintenance Engineer for the Technical Support department at Sartorius in Havant. In this role, you will be responsible for technical support for service and internal customers, maintain chromatography systems, diagnose complex technical issues, electrical fault finding with support from the field engineering team.

The team consists of 5 professionals, and we are looking forward to shaping the future with you.

This position is full time and based at our Havant site with hybrid working available. There is a requirement for international travel up to 20%.

Grow with us Your Responsibilities

• On a daily basis you will be responsible for providing repair and maintenance support, diagnose complex technical issues, configure systems, electrical fault finding on systems both in the factory and at customer sites with support from the Field Engineering team
• You will support projects pre FAT, FAT, installation and SAT
• You will assist customers on using systems, troubleshooting directly with the customer either remotely or on site
• You will be liaising with software houses, R&D, engineering, application teams to gain information to help resolve technical problems related to systems
• Training people 1 to 1 on the systems either on customers site or in the factory at the Havant site
• You will provide problem description on hardware and automation including root cause analysis (Siemens industrial software configured by SSB, developed with S7 and WINCC)
• You will implement the software bench test together with the Process Application department
• Installing the industrial software on the target hardware and support the QA department in commissioning and qualification at FAT
• Documentation of hardware and software errors during commissioning
• You will organise software back-ups and updates
• Travelling to customer sites occasionally
• Working closely with internal and external stakeholders

• HNC/HND in Electrical Engineering/Electromechanics or Engineering Apprenticeship complete with supporting qualification or HNC/HND or ONC in Instrumentation and Control Engineering
• Service/Maintenance engineering experience working either in a manufacturing/production environment or servicing, repairing domestic appliances or industrial machinery/systems (electrical bias)
• Keen to step into working in controls engineering in a manufacturing environment
• Experience in electrical fault finding, diagnosing technical issues in relation to software would be useful
• Understanding PLC systems for troubleshooting/diagnostic would be desirable (diagnosing of problems rather than programming systems)
• Experience in delivering service to customers and communicating effectively
• High accuracy when it comes to technical writing
• Being proactive and the ability to work independently as well as part of a team
• Willingness to travel

As a growing global life science company, stock listed on the German DAX and TecDAX, Sartorius offers a wide range of benefits:

• Personal and Professional Development: mentoring, leadership programs, internal seminar offerings
• Work-life Balance: Remote options, flexible work schedules
• Making an impact right from the start: Comprehensive onboarding, including a virtual online platform even before joining
• Welcoming Culture: Mutual support, team-spirit and international collaboration; communities on numerous topics such as coaching, agile working and businesswomen network
• Health & Well-Being: Wide section of health and well-being support such as healthcare plans and health assessment services

• 39 hour working week
• 25 days annual leave plus public holidays
• Annual option to buy, sell or carry over annual leave
• Free parking on site
• Free hot and cold drinks

• Competitive benefits package, including:
  Private Medical Insurance
  Private Dental Insurance
  Group Life Assurance
  Travel Insurance (Employee paid)
  Salary Sacrifice Health Assessment Service
  Salary Sacrifice Cycle to Work Scheme

• Group Personal Pension Plan
• Group Income Protection
• Salary Sacrifice Will Writing Service

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