Automation System Engineer

About the job

To strengthen our team we are looking for a:

Automation System Engineer

We are a leading engineering office in the Northwestern Switzerland region. Our daily work is never boring! Why? Thanks to us, the tram operation in the region runs smoothly without disruptions. With our help, over 200,000 households in Basel are supplied with fresh drinking water. We make productions and buildings truly SMART. And our work helps develop cancer drugs that save lives.

We specialise in the automation of production plants and offer related solutions for Industrial IT. The family business based in Liestal today has over 70 employees. Committed and competent system and IT engineers form the foundation of our success.

In over 30 years, we have realised more than 8,000 exciting projects for our customers from the pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical, food, beverage, mechanical engineering, energy & environment, as well as transport & logistics sectors.

Your tasks

• Planning and creating functional specifications for control systems as well as autonomous controls in the industrial environment in the fields of pharmaceuticals, chemicals and biotech
• Creating concepts for control and regulation, batch applications with MES connection, visualisation as well as data management and system evaluation
• Developing software for PLC, SCADA or DCS (S7-TIA, Zenon, PCS7, DeltaV, Beckhoff or similar)
• Analysing and optimising the control of production processes
• Commissioning of plants
• Conducting and reviewing programme tests according to QS guidelines and commissioning
• GMP-compliant documentation of the work performed and summarising any discrepancies encountered

Your profile

• Completed studies at a university of applied sciences, technical college or university (e.g. ETH) in the field of systems engineering (automation) or an equivalent qualification
• Confident handling of MS Office and IT systems
• Very good German skills in spoken and written form as well as good English skills
• Precise, independent and structured working style, as well as a solution-oriented approach
• Coordination skills, resilience and ability to work in a team
• High personal responsibility
• Competent and professional appearance

We offer

• A permanent 100% position starting immediately or by arrangement. Recent graduates without professional experience are also warmly welcome.
• Participation in interesting projects with complex, demanding and varied work in the field of automation from concept to commissioning
• Extensive training and further education opportunities, which we as a future-oriented company always support and promote
• Progressive working conditions with flexible working hours and above-average social benefits
• A pleasant, open and collegial working environment where everyone is encouraged to contribute their personality
• Open communication policy with short decision-making paths and flat hierarchy
• Recognition, appreciation and a family team spirit that is regularly and consciously nurtured with appropriate events

About the company:

ControlTech Engineering AG (CTE) is one of the leading engineering offices in the Northwestern Switzerland region and offers innovative complete solutions for automation and industrial IT (OT). The family business was founded in 1990 and today has over 100 employees. Committed and competent employees form the foundation of our success.