Field Engineer

At a glance

In this role as a Field Engineer at SKAN, you will become part of a great team with a strong team spirit, responsible for the maintenance, qualification, and calibration of our equipment in the field. The range of equipment spans from older models to state-of-the-art filling lines. Both the training through our SKAN Academy and your several years of professional experience as a Field Engineer will help you quickly find your way in our environment.
With a high proportion of travel within Europe, exciting challenges, new cultures, and the opportunity to apply your know-how internationally await you. Assignments take place weekly (Mon-Fri) and sometimes over two to three weeks. The position requires an above-average level of time flexibility and willingness to travel. International service assignments are planned according to customer needs and may change at short notice. You bring the willingness to adapt flexibly to different deployment times, travel durations, and last-minute schedule changes.

Responsibilities

• Perform maintenance on our equipment
• Qualification, re-qualification, and inspections of SKAN equipment & products in the pharmaceutical environment
• GMP-compliant documentation of test protocols
• Calibration and adjustment of sensors
• Filter integrity testing and ventilation qualification
• Replacement and repair of components as well as troubleshooting service calls on isolators

Hard skills

• Technical basic training and/or higher technical qualification (mechanical engineering, mechatronics, polymechanics or similar)
• Several years of experience in the service technician environment are highly advantageous
• Experience in the GMP environment or in isolator technology is highly desirable but not mandatory
• Very good English skills are required; German skills are an advantage
• Due to the travel activity, residence in the Basel / Allschwil area is recommended or willingness to relocate there

Soft skills

• Enjoy working in a team
• Precise and careful working style
• High personal responsibility
• Strong time flexibility and high willingness to adapt to short-term changes in deployment planning as well as high flexibility regarding travel times, deployment duration, and last-minute customer assignments
• High flexibility due to partly short-term changes in the deployment schedule
• Confident and professional appearance towards customers
• Willingness to travel across Europe up to 75%-85%

We offer

• An open and collegial corporate culture
• Freedom for ideas
• Participation in sports and leisure activities
• Support through further training, especially at our SKAN Academy
• Intensive and job-oriented induction
• Short decision-making paths and flat hierarchies
• Open communication policy
• 5 weeks’ holiday and the possibility of additional days off

Further information

We look forward to receiving your complete application documents (CV, diplomas, and references), which you can submit directly via our career page.

For this vacancy, we rely on direct applications and do not work with external agencies. Applications submitted by agencies will not be processed further.

If you have any questions, please contact Viviane Braxton.