Automation Engineer III

The Automation Engineer III is a professional engineer who plans and coordinates specialist engineering activities and is charged with managing projects within the Inspection, Device Assembly and Packaging PET. This position is responsible for ensuring operation and maintenance of all assets within the operation and leading improvement initiatives as the technical expert and acts as technical support for all project related work. This includes coordination of technical resources, technical trouble shooting and process improvements. This position requires collaboration with operations, engineers, other leaders, and OEM suppliers.

• Interface with several types of equipment and systems, including but not limited to PLCs, SCADAs, HMIs, Servers, Databases, Data Historian, Visualization, and other automation equipment.

• Experience with networking, including but not limited to VLAN, Subnets and IP protocols

• Leads the following continuous process improvement efforts: yield improvements, OEE improvements and waste reduction for improvement of automated pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment

• Drive root cause analysis and perform/facilitate technical investigations and assessments

• Authors and review documents including Standard Operating Procedures, URS, Equipment specifications, coding specifications and Engineering reports

• Author, review, execute and close out Change Controls, Deviations, CAPAs, SAT and IQ/OQ protocols, and engineering commission tests/studies

• Develops of project justification and engineering proposals

• Evaluates new software and/or tools.

• Maintain external technical relationships and collaborates with equipment and material suppliers

• Accountable for training team members on equipment, processes, and Standard Operating Procedures that are new or have been modified to support new products, new market launches or new clients

• Maintain external technical relationships and collaborates with equipment and material suppliers

• Works collaboratively within operation/facility as well as with other engineers and technical community, locally and globally.

• Provide "on-call"/ “off-shift as required.

• Key contact for regulatory inspections as technical process owner

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience supporting manufacturing operations in a regulated or cGMP environment

• Experience with the following Automation systems; PLCs, HMIs, SCADA, Rockwell Inductive (Ignition) Aveva (Wonderware), Siemens, Emerson (GE) or B&R

• Ability to interpret diagrams, drawing, PLC code and other schematics.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline

• Experience with Factory Talk Batch

• Experience with Data Historian and Visualization systems such as Aveva PI (OSI PI)

• Experience with Microsoft SQL database design

• Knowledge of GAMP 5