Automation Engineer

Employer: Ferrosan Medical Devices

Introduction 
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.

Your profile
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
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😊.