Sr. Automation Engineer - Life Sciences

A global healthcare - life science company since the 1920's, driving change to defeat chronic diseases, and the first to use 100% renewable power in all production facilities wold wide. As an employer, we recognise the need to embrace experimentation and strive for diversity and inclusion to help make better decisions by ensuring that multiple perspectives are considered.

Great starting pay, plus preformance bonus, and room for growth/advancement.
Health, Dental, Vision Insurance - effective day one
PTO + 14 paid Holiday
401K (optional co match) + Tuition Assistance
Life & Disability Insurance
Employee Referral Awards

Job Details:

This is a permanent position where you will be at the forefront of developing and implementing state-of-the-art automation systems for process or utility systems. You will play a key role in designing, programming, simulating, and testing automated processes and machinery to complete precise, requirement specifications. Support production & other stakeholders. Improve reliability of the process control systems to meet current & projected customer, business & regulatory requirements through the following activities: people focus, equipment focus & standards

Responsibilities:

· Develop, manage, schedule, & execute plans in coordiantion with manufacturing schedule to maintain & improve process control systems.
· Support & manage corporate, product supply, DFP, stakeholder & departmental initiatives/projects
· Operate as automation lead on process control systems projects and serve as SME for assigned areas/technologies, audits, & inspecitons.
· Assist with developing & managing budgets for maintaining & improving process control systems
· Develop & maintain automation standards, specifications & maintenance plans
· Support & manage implementation of systems & interfaces
· Lead the site in establishing automation direction & strategy (hardware & software standards)
· Lead troubleshooting for automation-related downtime
· Coach & train colleagues & stakeholders in relevant areas/develop training material when necessary
· Manage assignments with a quality mindset that focuses on risk management & mitigation
· Ensure the quality of systems adheres to company standards; adhere to change management standard

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Automation Engineering, Electrical Engineering/related field or equivalent combo experience & education.
• Minimum 7 years' experience in processed-based manufacturing, utility &/or packaging systems in bio/pharma/Life Sciences.
• Proven experience with PLC & HMI, Oracle, Rockwell, DCS, SCADA, and delta v.
• Experience troubleshooting automation & control systems & batch processes.
• Experience working in a pharmaceutical manufacturing environment.
• Knowledgeable in SCADA (i.e. iFix, Ignition, FactoryTalk), PLC & HMI (Rockwell/AB, Siemens, etc.), historian/data collections.
• Programming & configuration of process control systems.
• Windows based operating systems & associated applications.
• System interfacing & integration & user access management.
• Proven expertise in planning/organization & project execution.
• Strong results & revising work plans follow up.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Virtual machines/environments (preferably VMWare)
• Knowledgeable in Oracle, MS SQL
• Knowledgeable in MES (PAS-X, etc.); MS SQL, databases