Sr. Automation Engineer

Automation Project Lead

Provide support or ownership of the technical scope for their assigned area of the automation project.

Act as an automation representative in cross-functional program leadership meetings, ensuring alignment between automation, process engineering, digital/MES, and quality teams Serve as the key point of contact for client stakeholders and senior leadership regarding automation scope, progress, and risk mitigation of their assigned area

Collaborate with Program technical offices to ensure the automation solution is aligned with the overall program automation philosophy and standards

Provide technical support to the team working on their area of the project for the respective area/node and ensure that applicable standards are followed

Ensure consistency of the automation deliverables (requirements, functional specifications, control strategies, phases, and recipes, etc.)

Participate in P&ID and lead control strategy design

Lead in defining the software components that need to be created or modified

Communicates progress, issues, and needs to automation project manager for the entire workstream/all areas of the project

Lead input, review, and approve of functional requirements and specifications

Lead design of Parameter and Recipe Specification philosophy

Responding to system integrator technical queries

Lead and collaborate on the development of software testing strategies

Identification of any remediation effort required on process control software

Identify and analyze risks of technical nature particular to the area and planning responses.

Maintain compliance with training requirements.

Provide training and support to junior engineers and other team members.

Champion the adoption of emerging technologies, tools, and methodologies that improve automation efficiency, reliability, and maintainability.

Deep expertise/hands-on experience in DeltaV design, implementation and testing experience.

Automation experience in the pharmaceutical/life science industry, with a preference for API/bulk manufacturing environments.

Experience leading cross-functional automation teams.