Job Title: Sr. Technical Engineer
Location: WMFTS - China - No 211, Wenjing Road
Location Type: On-Site
Website: https://www.wmfts.com/en/
Group: https://www.spiraxgroup.com/
Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions is part of Spirax
Group, a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group
with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal
solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.
When you join us, you will be integrated into a cooperative and encouraging
team, participate in challenging yet critical work, and experience ongoing
growth opportunities to help you achieve your full potential. Visit our
website to learn more.
We are seeking a talented and motivated Sr. Technical Engineer to join our dynamic
team.
Key Responsibilities:
Leverage Technical engineer knowledge across chemical manufacturing, chemical vendors, and dosing applications; conduct product and application training for internal teams and external customers. Including on-site commissioning and maintenance guidance.
Act as technical lead for strategic and high-value opportunities, prioritising projects where technical engagement can significantly influence commercial outcomes.
Conduct on-site surveys to uncover opportunities, support Watson Marlow product trials to enhance our success and collect data.
Discuss with customer on application assessments; provide technical support to end user, EPCs, system integrators, and OEM customers.
Identify customer pain points, translate findings into value propositions, and assist in resolving quality complaints and field technical issues.
Develop TCO (total cost of ownership) proposals covering operational risk reduction and lifecycle cost benefits to support customer decision-making and help the sales team win.
Execute benchmarking, competitor comparisons, and validation testing for strategic projects; produce reports to support project approval.
Build application case studies and best-practice materials; drive technical knowledge sharing across APAC sales and technical teams.
Contribute to APAC testing capability development and future regional sector expertise.
Core background in fluid handling, pump systems, or chemical dosing equipment is essential. Exposure to chemical process applications is beneficial but not required.
Comfortable working on customer sites — conducting surveys, running trials, and troubleshooting in the field.
Exposure to chemical manufacturing, dosing systems, or related industrial process applications.
Able to read a process, ask the right questions, and translate customer needs into practical solutions.
Strong written and spoken English, capable of conducting technical discussions, presentations, training sessions, and customer engagements across APAC.
Self-motivated and able to manage work independently across multiple projects.
Quick learner with the ability to develop sector process knowledge on the job and adapt across diverse customer environments.
Typically 8–15 years of relevant experience. Preference for fluid handling and dosing equipment backgrounds — ProMinent, Milton Roy, LEWA, NETZSCH, Seepex, Sulzer, or similar. Candidates from chemical vendors, specialty chemical etc. backgrounds with hands-on dosing or transfer experience are also welcome.
At Watson-Marlow, we believe in taking
care of our colleagues. We offer a generous benefits package,
including:
Everyone is Included at Spirax Group
We are passionate about creating inclusive and
equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their
full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships
where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural
backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities,
neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else
that makes us human and unique.
We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will
always consider requests for flexible working.
We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we
have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion
Commitments. These include
Learn more at spiraxgroup.com/inclusion
We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If
you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our
application form.
We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive
and diverse workplace. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to
apply.
If you require accommodations during the application process, please let us
know.
At Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, part of Spirax Group, we are
driven by innovation and are dedicated to creating an inclusive workplace
where everyone is empowered to make a difference. As a world leader in
manufacturing peristaltic pumps and associated fluid path technologies for
the life sciences and process industries, we offer a wide range of products,
including tubing, specialised filling systems and products for single-use
applications.
Our shared Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders
as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our
technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and
industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage,
Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and
Healthcare. With customers in 116 countries, we provide the solutions that
sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans
to mobile phones!
Our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and
inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make
their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers,
our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment
where everyone feels included.
Spirax Group is the new name for Spirax-Sarco Engineering.
We are a global thermal energy and fluid technology solutions Group, positioned to play a critical role in enabling the industrial transition to net zero, in support of our Purpose, to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders, as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world.
Our solutions improve the operating efficiency and safety of the critical industrial processes that sit behind the production of consumables used every day. Our recently launched new-to-world decarbonisation* solutions use proprietary technologies to electrify boilers, for the raising of steam, as well as the electrification of other critical industrial process heating applications.
Our Group comprises three world-leading Businesses:
Steam Thermal Solutions helps customers control and manage steam within their mission critical industrial applications, helping to put food safely on the world’s tables and keep our hospitals running.
Steam Thermal Solutions includes:
Spirax Sarco
Gestra
Electric Thermal Solutions has proprietary technologies that deliver electrification solutions at scale in industrial settings. We also deliver freeze protection and defrost solutions critical to aviation and space industries and ensure thermal uniformity in semiconductor chip manufacturing to power the critical electronic systems we rely on.
Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions is engineering vital fluid technology solutions that optimise the efficient use of resources and support advancements in global health, such as lifesaving vaccines and gene therapies.
Spirax Group is a FTSE 100 Company, headquartered in Cheltenham (UK). We have 37 strategically located manufacturing plants around the world, with 10,000 colleagues, operating in 66 countries and serving 110,000 customers globally.
* Eliminates Scopes 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions when connected to a green electricity source.
