Technical Trainer

Every day, Getinge Group enables healthcare professionals to save lives. Based on first-hand experience and close partnerships, we provide innovative healthcare solutions to support before, during and after the patients’ hospital stay. Our company is built on a genuine compassion for people’s health and well-being. We approach our work with passion. In addition, our culture and behavior are guided by collaboration, openness, ownership and excellence – values we believe are the key to our success. Being part of Getinge Group means being an ambassador for these values and contributing to making a difference in peoples’ lives.

Getinge Group is in an exciting and intensive period of change and we are now strengthening our Business Category Unit (BCU) Surgical Workflows with a flexible and communicative Technical Trainer. Surgical Workflows is dependent on high level of expertize amongst service engineers in the sales organization. The key purpose of this position and team is to perform technical training and to ensure programs are created and available to enable sales regions keeping the needed level of competence in the organization. We are looking for a person with a passion for technical equipment and an interest in training others. Are you a dedicated Technical Trainer who wants to become a part of a dynamic global organization with high ambitions? This position gives you a unique possibility to interface with a wide range of people.

The position

The objective for these positions is to train local trainers as well as service technicians of the sales regions. Ensuring, through information and training that your trainees have the right skills. You will actively be driving the improvement work in order to increase quality of the technical training

Among your main responsibilities and tasks will be:

•Develop training programs for new equipment – incl. pre-learning, facilitor lead training and post-training follow-up program.
•Update training programs as needed in relation to product updates.
•Work closely with Technical Documentation team to ensure the supporting documents are suitable as basis for training.
•Work closely with 2nd line support function in supply chain to ensure feedback from market is reflected in training.
•Driving the improvement work in order to increase quality of the technical training

The position is located in Getinge (Sweden) or Rastatt (Germany) and the role requires 30 – 45 days of travel per year.

The ideal candidate
As ideal for the position you have the following Knowledge/Skills/Experience:

•At least 5 years of experience within Technical service
•Experience with training and competency assessment
•Team work in an international setting
•Steam technology, disinfection and sterilization methods
•Creating training documents
•Good presentation skills
•Good verbal and written skills
•Fluent in English, another language (e.g.Swedish, German, French) would be a plus.

As a person you are/have:
•A collaborative approach with all parts of the organization including sales and service.
•A motivating trainer who drives results and takes responsibility for his trainings
•Willingness to travel.
•A self-starter who works well independently and in a team, with the ability to manage multiple tasks in a rapidly changing environment. The right attitude is crucial.
•Good handling of stress.

Application

Are you interested in becoming part of an international and market leading medical technology company whose products a make huge difference for patients, healthcare professionals and societies all around the world? Getinge offers a great opportunity to make a difference in a global and dynamic environment!
Welcome with your application no later than 31st of January 2017 if you are interested in the position. You are also welcome to contact Markus Rieger, at +49 722 29 32 13 85 if you have questions.
Background checks may be carried out.

Getinge Group is a leading global provider of innovative solutions for operating rooms, intensive-care units, hospital wards, sterilization departments, elderly care and for life science companies and institutions. With a genuine passion for life, we build quality and safety into every system.
Our unique value proposition mirrors the continuum of care, enhancing efficiency throughout the clinical pathway. Based on our first-hand experience and close partnerships, we are able to exceed expectations from customers – improving the every-day life for people, today and tomorrow.
We employ around 16,000 talented employees across the globe and generate annual sales of about SEK 30 billion.