R&D Technician (m/f/d)

Job Description

At Olympus, we are committed to our purpose of making people's lives healthier, safer and more fulfilling. As a global medical technology company, we partner with healthcare professionals to provide best-in-class solutions and services for early detection, diagnosis and minimally invasive treatment, aiming to improve patient outcomes by elevating the standard of care in targeted disease states.
For more than 100 years, Olympus has pursued a goal of contributing to society by producing products designed with the purpose of delivering optimal outcomes for its customers around the world.

Within the Olympus Corporation, Olympus Surgical Technologies Europe (OSTE) is the global competence center for development, production and repair services for rigid endoscopy, bipolar high-frequency surgery and reprocessing. With a total workforce of about 3,600 employees at 14 locations in EMEA and its headquarters in Hamburg, the company stands for exceptional performance in medical technology and therapy and offers a full range of the most modern endoscopic applications from single products to procedure-oriented system solutions.


  • Manage the R&D IPS laboratories and their inventory
  • Execute conversions, repairs, tests and maintenance to effectively support R&D activities in development and life cycle management
  • Organise shipment of dangerous goods
  • Analyse non-conformities throughout the product lifetime with installation tests and failure analysis
  • Perform training on IPS laboratory safety (process owner)
  • Prepare all relevant documents for the safe operation of the laboratory, the processes, the devices etc. (e.g. safety instructions, test procedures)
  • Create concepts and samples for tools to enable and improve the service of ETD products
  • Make measuring equipment available for calibration

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or professional education with relevant working experience
  • Several years of experience in the maintenance and/or service of medical products, ideally ETD machines
  • Experience in a regulated and highly industrial or scientific engineering environment
  • Understanding of a wide range of engineering technologies used in design and manufacturing
  • IT and network experience
  • Fluency in German and English

  • 30 days of annual leave
  • Up to 60% mobile work possible and flexible work time model with overtime compensation
  • Holiday and Christmas bonuses
  • Corporate benefits
  • Comprehensive company pension scheme and capital-forming benefits
  • Company restaurant with live cooking and healthy food (subsidized)
  • Employee Assistance Program of FamPLUS to support your health, mental and emotional well-being
  • Subsidy for public transportation (Deutschlandticket), free parking spaces and bike or car leasing
  • Various subsidized company sports groups and access to the inhouse company gym
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