Senior Automation Engineer

Are you ready to see your future like never before? If so, Alcon is the place for you! A career at Alcon is like no other. We are innovative. We are impactful. We are the largest eye care medical device company helping restore sight and allowing millions of people worldwide to see brilliantly. We have a long history of industry firsts and a diverse hardworking team that keeps us on the cutting edge.

Alcon is looking to hire a Senior Automation Engineer to join our team in Fort Worth, TX. This person will be responsible for managing facilities, equipment, and personnel to manufacture medical device products in a way that ensures a safe workplace, complies with established standards and procedures (e.g., cGMP and SOPs), drives growth, and optimizes and improves the manufacturing process.

Key Responsibilities:

• Designs manufacturing processes, procedures, and production layouts for equipment installation.
• Designs arrangement of machines within plant facilities to ensure most efficient and productive layout.
• Adapts machine or equipment design to factory and production conditions.
• Ensures processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations.
• Develops user and design requirements, selects equipment vendors, or completes the technology design and equipment build.
• Manages the installation of automation systems while ensuring safety, and validating the automated system for adherence to requirements, CGMPs, and intended system operation.
• Supports Automation Technicians in situations where troubleshooting or technology may fall outside of their area of expertise.
• Interacts with production supervisors/managers to identify areas to improve equipment throughput, flexibility, quality, safety, and/or reliability.
• Implements automation solutions resulting from MNC investigations or CAPA assignments.
• Plans and executes engineering project work with minimal supervision.
• Troubleshoots equipment/process control systems and change control activities.
• Programs PLCs, HMIs, SCADA systems, and inspection systems.
• Manages small capital projects.
• Designs and implements modifications to the existing manufacturing equipment that will improve the operational efficiencies.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent years of directly related experience (or high school +10 yrs; Assoc.+6 yrs)
• The ability to fluently read, write, understand and communicate in English.
• 2 years of relevant experience
• Work hours: Exempt
• Travel Requirements: 0-10%
• Relocation assistance: Yes
• Sponsorship available: No

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering (electrical, chemical, mechanical, biomedical), computer science, computer engineering, or software engineering
• Relevant experience with manufacturing medical devices
• Hands on experience with PLCs and CAD design
• Project Management experience

Alcon is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. Alcon takes pride in maintaining a diverse environment and our policies are not to discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Alcon is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an email to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.