Inhouse Consultant Engineering Applications

This role is offered on a Contract-to-Hire basis, with an initial pre-defined contractual period. Upon successful completion of this period, the position is intended to transition to Burckhardt Compression s permanent payroll.

General Purpose: Support, administer, and continuously improve engineering applications used across design, manufacturing, and related business functions. Act as the technical interface between engineering users, IT teams, software vendors, and other stakeholders.

Main responsibilities and tasks:

• Provide L2/L3 support for engineering applications and resolve technical/application issues.
• Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain engineering software and associated components.
• Support applications such as CAD/CAM/CAE, PLM/PDM, plant design, visualization, and manufacturing engineering tools.
• Manage software licensing, license servers, configurations, and application access.
• Troubleshoot application performance, integrations, client/server connectivity, and compatibility issues.
• Coordinate with Engineering, Infrastructure, Network, Security, Procurement, and external vendors for incidents, changes, and new requirements.
• Support software deployment, testing, upgrades, migrations, and application lifecycle activities.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, SOPs, installation guides, and troubleshooting knowledge articles.
• Identify opportunities for standardization, automation, performance improvement, and cost/license optimization.
• Ensure engineering applications comply with organizational IT security and software governance requirements.
• Evaluate business requirements and recommend suitable technical solutions based on organisational standards.
• Perform root-cause analysis and coordinate the resolution of complex incidents with internal teams and software vendors.
• Identify opportunities for application standardisation, automation, performance improvement, and cost optimisation.

Education, Experience and Languages:

• Bachelors degree in mechanical engineering, Production Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline.
• Relevant training or certification in one or more of the following areas is advantageous:
• • • • CAD/CAM/CAE/MES applications
      • PLM/PDM platforms
      • Engineering software administration
      • Windows or IT infrastructure
      • Software licensing and deployment
• Good written and verbal communication skills in English.
• 3-6 years of relevant professional experience in engineering application support, administration, implementation, or technical consulting.
• Hands-on experience supporting CAD/CAM/CAE and PLM/PDM applications, such as Siemens NX, Teamcenter, Plant Design, Topsolid, Ansys or comparable engineering solutions.
• Experience with software installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, licensing, deployment, and user support.
• Working knowledge of Windows environments, client-server architectures, networking concepts, databases, and application integrations.
• Experience in troubleshooting complex technical issues and conducting structured root-cause analysis.
• Experience coordinating with engineering users, IT infrastructure and security teams, procurement functions, and external software vendors.
• Experience in a manufacturing, industrial engineering, or product-development environment is preferred.

Burckhardt Compression creates leading compression solutions for a sustainable energy future and the long-term success of its customers. The Group is the only global manufacturer that covers a full range of reciprocating compressor technologies and services. Since 1844, its passionate, customer-oriented and solution-driven workforce has set the benchmark in the gas compression industry.