Controls & Automation Engineer

Pharmavite•Opelika, AL

51d•$80,000 - $146,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Controls & Automation Engineer champions the development & support of the site's production equipment controls and automation infrastructure. This individual keeps abreast of current controls and automation technology and can translate technology into opportunities, providing a competitive advantage to Pharmavite.

Requirements

Requires a bachelor’s degree in electrical/controls engineering or 5 years of equivalent experience in a manufacturing environment.
Requires experience in a production environment and has demonstrated the capability with different control systems, being able to modify Ladder Logic effectively.
Allen-Bradley experience is required.
Ability to problem-solve at a high level, leveraging structured problem-solving techniques.
Ability to effectively collaborate with peers spanning multiple sites, ensuring common ways of working and standards are maintained.
Ability to collect and assess data and translate data into robust business cases and form actionable solutions.
Ability to teach and coach technicians controls technology, fault finding, and fault remediation, ultimately enhancing production system utilization.
Ability to lead teams as well as be a good team member on large capital projects
Good project management skills.
Good communication/interpersonal skills.
Proven success in recognizing business needs and creating and implementing technology solutions.

Nice To Haves

Lean certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

Is responsible for the assigned production sites controls and automation systems, along with the development and delivery of the sites automation and controls capital plans.
Seamlessly deliver controls and automation projects, ensuring a deep level of input from the customer, leveraging Pharmavite’s project management methodology and good practice project management tools.
Provides robust, timely support to manufacturing operations. Day-to-day production support is estimated to be approximately 15% of the time and may require some occasional out-of-hours support.
Leads value creation by the identification, planning, and implementation of new controls and automation to provide a competitive advantage to Pharmavite.
Keeps abreast of controls and automation technology and understands how it may be applied to work centers.
Ensure controls and automation-related projects are added to the site capital plans and multi-year Master Plans
Serves as a partner with the following Pharmavite functional groups/roles: Operational Excellence, Technical Operations SME’s, Engineering project managers and Project Engineers, Information Technology, Operations Team leaders, Operations Engineers
Support the capability development of technicians who are the first line of defense for control system faults
Supports larger capital projects (under the leadership of a Project Manager) acts as the controls and automation lead.
Provides leadership on controls and automation specifications and functional requirements, and ultimately ensures the controls aspects of the projects meet user requirements.
Performs other related duties as assigned.