Job Title: Automation Engineer
Location: Framingham, MA
Main Responsibilities:Key Responsibilities may differ among employees with same job title and may change over time in accordance with business needs.
This position is responsible for providing automation expertise for small projects. These projects include continuous improvement and retrofit. This person will troubleshoot and support delivery of future enhancements for automation related systems.
The Automation Engineer will be responsible for maintaining and providing technical support, ensuring availability of the automation systems for multiple manufacturing facilities.
Additional Responsibilities include:
Ensuring timely issue escalation to senior management and cross-functional support teams.
Partnering with support teams i.e., Manufacturing, Quality, etc to ensure deliverables are completed to meet to production schedules.
Automation:- Provide technical solutions to a wide range of process automation related design challenges. Solutions are imaginative, thorough, practical, and consistent with organization objectives
- Responsible for ensuring process equipment automation are available to support operations schedule requirements
- Managing small departmental projects and ensuring that the appropriate controls, approvals, and validation requirements are implemented
- Integrate systems and data from a variety of skidded systems, analytical equipment, and process/building control systems
- Developing robust solutions that have minimal downtime and ensure data integrity
- Contribute to the development of automation standards
Training /Deviations /Compliance/Safety:- Complying with Sanofi requirements for training
- Ensuring Inspection Readiness of assigned areas
- Overseeing completion of investigations and deviations
- Ensuring all assigned deviations and CAPA's are closed in a timely manner
- Ensuring that Automation documentation is compliant and inspection ready
- Participating in inspections conducted by external regulators
- Complying with requirements from Genzyme's Safety Program including Health and Safety regulations and OSHA requirements.
Continuous Improvement:- Working collaboratively with inter-department and cross-functional teams to contribute to necessary changes in a timely and productive manner
- Partnering with Manufacturing to troubleshoot and drive resolution of process issues and proactively driving projects to improve manufacturing process
- Partnering with Operational Excellence to drive process improvements through Kaizens, Kanban, 5S and VSM
About You:Basic Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree in engineering, Science or related technological field with at least 6 months hands-on experience in the process automation field preferably in life sciences
- Direct experience with regulated environments (i.e. cGMP, OSHA, EPA)
Preferred Qualifications:- Experience with DeltaV automation
- Experience with multiple computerized systems (Ignition, Werum PAS-X, PI, etc.)
- Experience with SCADA/PLC systems such as Rockwell Factory Talk/RSLogix, Honeywell
- Understanding of network infrastructure
- Experience with systems/network/validation, preferable in the chemical, pharmaceutical, foods, or other process industries is preferred
- Electrical Engineer or Chemical Engineer
- Experienced in establishment of safe practices in a cGMP environment.
- Understanding of virtual environments, VMWare, Hyper-V
- Proficient working with computer programs/applications such as Windows, VBA, MS Word, Excel, Access, etc.
- Strong organizational skills
- Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and be accountable
- Proven technical and analytical skills to quickly resolve automation system issues
Special Working Conditions:
- Required manufacturing operations support on a rotating "on call" 24/7 basis
Requires working in an industrial manufacturing environment including gowning
The salary range for this position is:
$75.000,00 - $108.333,33
All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.
