Production Engineer - Frankfurt/Main (m/w/d)

Company Description

Sirtex Medical is a global healthcare business with offices in Boston, Sydney, Germany, and Singapore, working to improve outcomes in people with cancer. Our current lead product is a targeted radiation therapy for liver cancer called SIR-Spheres® Y-90 resin microspheres. More than 100,000 doses have been supplied to treat patients with liver cancer at more than 1,300 medical centers in over 50 countries. At Sirtex, we’re transforming our industry through our leadership with interventional oncology and being a values-led company. To do this, we empower our people to realize their potential through life-changing work. We offer stimulating careers and development, encourage innovation, and strive for excellence in everything we do. We will always foster a diverse and inclusive workplace, in which our global teams are united by an unwavering commitment to improve the quality and longevity of patients’ lives by providing innovative interventional oncology solutions. Here, you will be a vital contributor to our inspiring and bold mission.

Job Description

The Frankfurt/Main plant is one of the global sites for Sirtex Medical. The position of the Production Engineer ensures consistent, safe and efficient product realization activities at the Frankfurt site. The position requires a detail oriented individual capable of working independently in a clean room facility while meeting the demands of production timelines and commitments. The Production Engineer supports all aspects of maintenance, calibration, tests, and repairing of all electrical and electronical devices, equipment and installations as well as validation of processes used for the manufacturing, labelling, packaging, delivering and quality control of radioactive medical devices at Sirtex Germany Manufacturing GmbH, Frankfurt/Main.

Furthermore, the Production Engineer supports the Production Technicians in their activities and is willing and able to fill in as a Production Technician if needed to produce the radioactive medical device of Sirtex Medical.

This position is responsible for and has authority to:

• Performing qualifications, tests, calibrations, maintenance, and repairs of devices, equipment and installations at the Frankfurt/Main site.
• Performing creation, dispensing, sterilization, packaging and shipping tasks for the company’s products following detailed process steps without deviation in order to assure a uniform output.
• Programming of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) for troubleshooting with interfaces to individual devices as well as with interfaces between different devices.
• Selecting, creating and issuing proper production documentation including batch records, product labels and work orders.
• Safely handling radioactive materials, waste and product per company training procedures and policy.
• Work with business management software or enterprise resource planning software (like SAP).
• Adhere to practices designed to protect both employees and product from contact with radioactivity and potential contamination, including wearing of clean room uniforms.
• Be flexible and work within a small team without strictly defined roles in order to assure complete functional coverage.
• Support the maintenance, troubleshooting and/or rebuilding of fixturing, equipment and devices used throughout the production process or quality control.
• Work with radioactive material and ensure/promote security, with the knowledge that all equipment, processes and systems designed for the facility have been done so to guarantee a safe and productive environment.

All safety or background screenings by governmental authorities must be completed and an examination of the state of health in accordance to German Radiation Safety Ordinance has to be passed during the first six month of employment.

Qualifications

• • Very good command of the German and good command of the English language (oral and written).
  • The minimum educational requirement is a technical vocational school certificate for electronics (up to 400V) or a technical college degree in an engineering or science related field.
  • Previous experience in working in the medical device or pharmaceutical industry or in another highly regulated environment.
  • Experience in working with radioactive material and radiation would be desirable.

Additional Information

Do you want to be part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the globe making a real difference to the quality of people’s lives.  Sirtex recognizes that well-being, financial health, and work-life balance are crucial for our employees to achieve personal success. 

Sirtex offers qualified candidates:

• Diverse and flexible work arrangements to achieve the optimum balance between work and personal responsibil