Controls and Maintenance Engineer

at  Sartorius

We are looking for a Controls and Maintenance Engineer to join our team in Havant.
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.
Our site in Havant undertakes full project lifecycle activities from quotation, through project management, product design, procurement, assembly, and testing of leading electro – mechanical chromatography equipment (process skids and columns) for the biotech and biopharmaceutical industry.
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%.

• 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