Teamlead Software Engineering – Pharma/Chemicals (m/f/d) 80–100%

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Teamlead Software Engineering – Pharma/Chemicals (m/f/d) 80–100%

Possible work locations

Muttenz

Basel

Scope

Full-time

You are passionate about automation in the pharmaceutical and chemical industry and want not only to help shape it but also to take responsibility?

Then this role is made for you: As Teamlead Software Engineering PCS 7, you take on the technical and organizational leadership of our software portfolio – from baseload to projects to on-call duty and engineering standards. You are the central interface between our Swiss location and the Corporate Department in Austria, aligning regulatory requirements, customer needs, and technical excellence.

Then this role is made for you: As Teamlead Software Engineering PCS 7, you take on the technical and organizational leadership of our software portfolio – from baseload to projects to on-call duty and engineering standards. You are the central interface between our Swiss location and the Corporate Department in Austria, aligning regulatory requirements, customer needs, and technical excellence.

Your tasks:

• Portfolio & line responsibility: You are responsible for our PCS-7 software portfolio (baseload & projects), prioritize, plan capacities, deploy lead engineers/PLs, and ensure delivery capability.
• Team building & leadership: You expand the software engineering team (hiring, coaching, skill management) and further develop people and methods.
• Interface Corporate Department (AT): Our templates & libraries are provided by the Corporate Department in Austria. You orchestrate adoption, versioning, rollout in CH, and coordinate AT resources in Swiss mandates. Customer coordination in Switzerland is your responsibility.
• CSV partnership: In close collaboration with CSV, you deliver holistic solutions. From regulated chemical applications to GxP projects in pharma (GAMP 5, Annex 11/21 CFR Part 11).
• Baseload & on-call duty: You lead the on-call service technically/organizationally (duty planning, escalations, KPIs) and act as 3rd-level sparring for critical disruptions.
• Standards & quality: Governance for engineering standards (CFC/SFC/SCL, WinCC, naming), reviews, test strategy; documentation (URS/FS/FDS) as well as FAT/SAT; support with IQ/OQ.

Your profile:

• Completed studies in automation technology, electrical engineering, computer science, or a comparable technical field.
• Many years of experience with Siemens PCS 7 (engineering & commissioning), confident in CFC/SFC, SCL, WinCC, S7-410, Batch/S88.
• Understanding of the PLC architecture (HW/SW layers, networks, redundancies, virtualization/backups, OT basics).
• You bring experience in the technical and organizational leadership of engineering teams. You motivate, develop, and coach employees, communicate clearly, and take responsibility in complex project situations.
• You demonstrate customer orientation and resilience.
• You understand how production processes work and can logically translate them into automation solutions.
• Very good German and English skills.
• Advantageous:
• MES knowledge and interface understanding (e.g., Historian, LIMS, EBR).
• Experience in regulated environments (GAMP 5, Annex 11/21 CFR Part 11).
• OT security (IEC 62443), Profibus/Profinet, migration/modernization projects.
• FDS experience: You have not only implemented FDS but also written them yourself.

Our offer:

• Secure workplace with varied and challenging tasks
• Freedom for initiative and the opportunity to contribute individual strengths
• Appreciative working atmosphere with flat hierarchies and lived "DU culture"
• Flexible working hours (no core time) and home office option
• VTU Academy with internal and external training opportunities
• Individual career and development opportunities (e.g., organizational as well as specialist/expert career)
• Pension benefits and health measures
• Lunch and REKA checks

ContactValeria Navarretta

Office Muttenz

Tramstrasse 99

CH - 4132 Muttenz

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