Associate's degree or higher; preferably a Bachelor of Science in a technical field like Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical, or Computer Engineering.
2+ years of experience in industrial automation software, robotics, or machine vision controls.
Experience in an FDA-regulated industry such as Pharmaceuticals or Medical Devices.
Preferred 2+ years in industrial automation/machine vision controls with knowledge of PLCs, HMIs, and SCADA systems.
Responsibilities
Perform equipment evaluations and troubleshoot mechanical and automated systems as needed.
Monitor equipment systems for reliability, maintenance history, and overall quality output.
Conduct periodic software backups, security updates, and maintain Automation Archives.
Prioritize activities based on system criticality to ensure compliance and quality standards.
Act as the single point of contact for assigned responsibilities, providing technical leadership.
Collaborate with cross-functional managers to execute mission objectives effectively.
Initiate and lead projects for improvements to vision/automation systems via quality processes.
Benefits
Collaborative work environment across Engineering, Operations, and Quality.
Opportunities for technical leadership and influence on automation strategies.
Involvement with capital projects, enhancing professional growth in automation.
Access to a variety of automation/vision technologies in a regulated industry.
Full Job Description
The mission of Automation is to provide highly effective automated manufacturing workflow solutions, information collection systems, and reporting solutions for the St. Louis facilities.
Provide technical expertise required to achieve and sustain optimum reliability, maintainability, useful life, and life cycle cost for all facilities, manufacturing, utilities, and process systems/assets .
Develop, refine, and perform backup, restore, and disaster recovery for automation/vision engineering solutions.
Provide automation/vision troubleshooting expertise/guidance for corrective maintenance activities.
Ensures project engineering and qualification strategies/programs are aligned with supporting site's overall Asset Improvement strategies for supporting the customer base.
Role Responsibilities
Perform equipment evaluations and troubleshoot where necessary. Troubleshooting may require both mechanical and automated system evaluations.
Monitors equipment systems for reliability, maintenance history, downtime factors , efficiency, reject rates, and other elements affecting overall up-time and quality output.
Performs periodic software system backups, security (password) updates, PLC code comparisons, vision job file backups, and maintains the Automation Archives.
Prioritizes activities based on the criticality of systems to ensure quality and regulatory compliance.
Acts as Automation's single point of contact for their assigned area of responsibility. Provides technical leadership and guidance to site operating groups through investigations, equipment assessments, generation of user requirements, design support and troubleshooting activities.
Collaborate with managers within Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, and Quality to ensure the mission objectives, and strategies are executed consistently and to the fullest extent to support the site as intended and outlined in service level agreements with the varies customer groups.
Initiates and leads projects to make improvements to vision/automation systems via Quality Change Control process.
Supports capital projects and leads Automation aspects of those projects as required.
Generates or modifies standard operating procedures, risk assessments, forms, templates, and logs as required.
Serves as System Administrator for all manufacturing, inspection, packaging, environmental monitoring, laboratory, and support systems where Automation group has the primary support role. Maintain list of active users, adds new approved users, deactivates terminated users, and resets passwords when necessary.
Basic Qualifications
Associate's degree or Higher; Preferred Bachelor of Science degree in a technical field, Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical or Computer Engineering; OR 2+ years in industrial automation software, robotics, or machine vision controls.
Experience in an FDA regulated industry (e.g. Pharmaceuticals, Medical Device).
Preferred 2 or more years industrial automation/machine vision controls experience; should have detailed knowledge of programming of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs), machine vision systems, and/or Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems.
