Infrastructure Engineer

Overview:


TekWissen group is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. Our client is a leading biotechnology company that combines technological insight with world-class manufacturing, scientific expertise, and process excellence and helps their customers to deliver new and innovative medicines that help treat a wide range of diseases. Our client specializes in pharmaceutical ingredients, Bioscience, Biopharmaceuticals, Custom manufacturing, Biotechnology, Life science ingredients, Nutrition, Microbial Control, Agriculture, Materials Science, Personal Care, and cell and gene therapy.


Job Title: Infrastructure Engineer


Location: Vacaville, CA, 95688


Duration: 6 Months


Job Type: Contract


Work Type: Onsite


Summary:

Scope:

• Provide support and technical contribution for the Process Automation Systems Distributed Control System (DCS), Manufacturing Control System (MCS), Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), Building Automation System (BAS) and site manufacturing and Quality Control (QC) systems.
• Provide support to other business and information management related infrastructure for manufacturing and QC operations.
• Provide support to senior system engineers in executing projects in support of the Automation and QC roadmap focusing on Infrastructure, vendor software integrations and custom applications used in manufacturing and QC operations.

Job Duties :

• Provide System Administration, Infrastructure design and support for the MCS, DCS, and site QC systems.
• Provide support to routine user management activities for manufacturing and QC systems.
• Provide support to routine backup/restore/archival activities for production automation and site QC systems.
• Provide support for routine data retention, review audit trails, and patching for manufacturing and QC systems.
• Assist Senior/Principal System Engineers to maintain system availability and support infrastructure components, including firewalls and antivirus software.
• Work with project teams and outside groups including manufacturing, engineering, process science, validation and quality assurance personnel to implement right the first time solutions.
• Support the resolution of automation and QC system issues including cause analysis, issue resolution, unplanned event assessments, CAPAs, and investigation.
• Assist with Infrastructure (Production and QC) testing, debug, and startup activities.
• Perform troubleshooting and provide support for Cell Culture Plant 1 (CCP1), Cell Culture Plant 2 (CCP2), PLC and Site QC system and software issues, including on- call / after-hours support (as required).
• Support and resolve and break-fix issues. Support project lead and/or Senior automation personal for development review and approval of requirements documents, scope definition documents, design documents and drawings.
• Provide support for ongoing manufacturing by evaluating discrepancies, taking authorized discrepancy additional actions, providing technical input for investigation and/or developing and implementing corrective action plans.

Skills:

• Effective communication at all levels
• Ability to secure relevant information and identify key issues and relationships from a base of information.
• Evaluate automation engineering problems and be able to devise cause and effect relationships and propose solutions.
• Adapt to changing conditions
• Ability to prioritize deliverables

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.