Automation Design Manager, Getinge

With a passion for life

Join our diverse teams of passionate people and a career that allows you to develop both personally and professionally. At Getinge we exist to make life-saving technology accessible for more people. To make a true difference for our customers – and to save more lives, we need team players, forward thinkers, and game changers.

Are you looking for an inspiring career? You just found it.

Getinge and our business category Life Science is in an exciting and intensive period of change, and we are now recruiting a new manager to our Automation design team in Halmstad.

About this opportunity

As Automation Design Manager you will lead and be a part of a close-knit and highly professional team consisting of around twenty, junior to senior level, automation engineers. The team is responsible for the systemization and programming of our control systems for product development, product care, and customer order with integration to the end user production environment when requested. The department holds a high level of competence in the following programming languages: Siemens, Allen Bradley, B&R and SCADA.

We offer you a work environment where you have the possibility to grow with a wide variety of tasks, a large amount of freedom and with a high degree of responsibility.

This position is based at our manufacturing site in Getinge, Halmstad and offers a hybrid work setup where you can work from home 1-2 days/week after agreement with your manager. This position may include national and international travelling a couple of times a year.

What you will do

As Automation Design Manager you will be a part of the Design & Development Management team within our Life Science R&D department. In your role you will plan, drive, follow up and implement improvements, changes, strategies, and other activities. You will interact and work cross functional within and outside the organization. Since we are a manufacturing site we also work closely together with our production.

Your responsibilities will include to:

• support and strive for development of your team members competencies.
• set and follow up on strategic objectives.
• capacity planning of the team.
• plan, allocate and follow up resources for projects. 
• ensure that quality and regulatory compliance are incorporated in the everyday work.
• develop working methods and drive improvement work.

There are exciting times ahead as the pace of innovation and digitalization of our products is increasing. You will work closely with stakeholders such as suppliers, customers, research and development and market representatives to ensure that relevant innovations are on the product roadmap and delivered.

You will bring

You are a person who has strong leadership skills and is passionate about people and technology. You want to work in a team that are creating solutions and has a willingness to drive innovation and change.

You hold a Master of Science or Bachelor of Science degree in engineering within automation, mechatronics, electronics or similar. Fluency in English and Swedish, orally and written is a must.

Preferably, you have experience from working within automation/programming in regulated industries but it is not a must.

Why join Getinge 

Getinge offers a job in a safe and informal work environment, where we appreciate close team collaboration. We keep an open dialogue between leaders and employees, as well as between teams. We are focused on developing people, and together we will create a plan for learning and competence development when you start your career with us. 

We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, including wellness allowances, generous family benefits and joint company activities. Everything to ensure we support your well-being and goals.

Application  

Applications will be reviewed continually, and we therefore recommend sending us your application as soon as possible.

We kindly ask you to submit your application in our recruitment system by clicking the “apply now” button. Due to GDPR regulations we do not accept applications via e-mail.

If you have any questions regarding the role, please contact our Manager of the Design & Development Department, Carin Claesson at carin.claesson@getinge.com or Recruiter Sofia Ekstrand at sofia.ekstrand@getinge.com.

We look forward to receiving your application. We hope you will join us on our journey to become the world’s most desired MedTech company. 

About us 

With a firm belief that every person and community should have access to the best possible care, Getinge provides hospitals and life science institutions with products and solutions aiming to improve clinical results and optimize workflows. The offering includes products and solutions for intensive care, cardiovascular procedures, operating rooms, sterile reprocessing and life science. Getinge employs over 12,000 people worldwide and the products are sold in more than 135 countries.  

Reasonable accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. 

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