Steam systems engineering and manufacturing for industrial process control
Spirax Sarco is a FTSE-100 steam systems manufacturer with 5,000+ employees, 1,300+ field engineers across 40+ countries, and 100+ years of domain expertise. The tech stack reveals a traditional industrial ops footprint—SQL Server, Azure, AWS, JD Edwards, CMMS, and PLC—paired with emerging IoT and connectivity work (IoT edge hardware selection, connected services application design, customer onboarding for IoT connectivity). Engineering-heavy hiring (16 roles) focused on mid-level talent suggests active scaling of product development and manufacturing automation alongside legacy ERP modernization.
Spirax Sarco designs and manufactures steam system solutions—products, services, and application engineering—for food, beverage, pharmaceutical, oil and petrochemical, and industrial process customers. The company operates 12 manufacturing sites across multiple continents and maintains a direct field organization of over 1,300 engineers for sales, service, and technical support. The business serves over 100,000 regular customers. Beyond product sales, the company runs 38 learning centers and correspondence courses that have trained 1,000,000 students in steam engineering principles.
Core stack includes SQL Server, Azure, AWS, Microsoft Dynamics 365, JD Edwards ERP, and CMMS for manufacturing operations. Testing and API tooling: Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Postman. Active IoT projects suggest adoption of edge hardware and connected services platforms.
Active projects include IoT customer onboarding and edge hardware selection, a sales methodology initiative (First Fit), CI/reliability engineering, financial model development, and manufacturing cost reduction and electrification of steam generation systems.
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