Digitalization Technician

About the role

The Digitalization Technician will deploy, sustain and optimise digital systems across manufacturing. This includes integrating industrial devices, configuring data acquisition, and supporting MES interfaces and dashboards within a regulated medical‑device environment.

Key responsibilities

• Program and configure PLCs, HMIs and edge gateways for automated data collection using OPC UA or MQTT, following approved change control.
• Install and sustain industrial IoT devices and edge gateways across production areas, standardising deployments and labelling.
• Configure and troubleshoot industrial/IT networks (VLANs, switch ports, Wi‑Fi, firewall requests) in line with IT/OT standards.
• Develop and maintain data pipelines (SQL queries, scripts, ETL) and validate data quality from shop floor to dashboards/MES.
• Create and improve dashboards (Power BI or equivalent) and KPI definitions with stakeholders, ensuring performance and governance.
• Support MES deployment activities, including master data validation, equipment integration and hyper‑care execution.
• Own documentation such as network diagrams, data‑flow diagrams and configuration baselines, and support validation packages (IQ/OQ/PQ).

Required profile

• Technical diploma or Associate degree in Electronics, Industrial Electronics, Mechatronics, Automation or a related field.
• Strong troubleshooting and root‑cause analysis abilities.
• Understanding of regulated‑environment fundamentals (ISO 13485, data integrity).
• Intermediate English communication skills.
• Proven experience with industrial automation and digitalisation projects.

Required skills

• PLC programming and configuration
• HMI configuration
• Edge gateway setup
• OPC UA, MQTT and REST integration
• Python (or similar scripting language)
• Node‑RED or comparable low‑code tools
• SQL query writing and data modelling (PostgreSQL, SQL Server)
• Power BI or similar business‑intelligence dashboard tools
• Networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, VLANs, Wi‑Fi, industrial switches
• Industrial IoT device deployment
• Data pipeline / ETL development
• Basic OT cybersecurity (hardening, access control, patch management)