Senior Engineer - Automation ( Pharmaceutical Research).

Senior Engineer - Automation (Pharmaceutical Research)

Job ID: REQ-10045608

Date: Apr 15, 2025

Summary

About the Role

Your responsibilities:

• Provide technical support on laboratory automation systems in close alignment with the local operators.
• Analyze processes, software and hardware issues and identify root causes of malfunctions, seek advice from vendors or experienced co-workers when required and conduct repairs in alignment with team or vendors where applicable.
• Set up and manage vendor onsite interventions and preventative maintenance.
• Pursue open issues with vendors until resolved in a timely manner.
• Establish, monitor and maintain a stable and productive automation environment through QC, preventative maintenance and excellent documentation.
• Plan, manage and execute automation projects from new devices, over upgrades to existing systems up to complex installations, in alignment with the local and globally distributed team.
• Assist business with requirements engineering across functional units (Compound Management, IT).
• Assist business owners with business analysis and documentation in the specifying and planning of complex workflows and their automated execution.
• Assist business owners in the selection of adequate automation hardware (liquid handling and peripheral devices).
• Actively seek input and feedback from the Compound Management team members to identify gaps in processes or with existing automation platforms to elaborate and propose improvements.
• Communicate transparently on all aspects of the daily work.

Requirements

• Degree qualified or equivalent in a relevant discipline with +5 years’ experience in automation, ideally lab automation.
• Deep understanding of liquid handling principles and technologies, has multi-year experience with different vendors of liquid handling equipment (e.g., Hamilton, Tecan, CyBio, others).
• Has worked in or has led projects for laboratory automation or equivalent.
• Experience with business analysis and can develop automation solutions.
• IT friendly - profound understanding of software driving automated systems and liquid handling systems (Venus, Evo Ware, Momentum, Cellario, Green Button Go, etc.), databases, script and protocol programming.
• You are not afraid to work with scripting or programming languages.
• Open communication, self-motivated and self-organized, excellent team working skills and a flexible working perception are important.
• Languages: English, German (French is a plus).

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