Principal Automation Engineer
About The Position
Shire Human Genetic Therapies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Automation Engineer responsible for operational, project, and strategic support of PLC, DCS, Manufacturing Execution systems, and ancillary data systems used to control and collect data for various building and manufacturing unit operations. The role involves providing technical leadership and contributing to the strategic vision of the Automation Engineering group, supporting equipment and systems in the cGMP manufacturing of commercial and clinical products at Takeda MBO sites. Key responsibilities include developing and maintaining design and fabrication standards, ensuring system performance, continuous improvement, platform upgrading, life cycle planning, and strategic innovation. The Principal Automation Engineer will serve as a subject matter expert, support project engineering tasks, consult on major functionality challenges and industry best practices, and oversee the technical output of engineers, contractors, and vendors. Up to 20% domestic and international travel is required for project factory acceptance tests and industry meetings, with up to 20% remote work allowed.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering plus 12 years of related experience.
- Scope, engineering, program, implement, commission, operate, maintain, optimize, administrate large scale control systems over 100K DST (input\output control signals).
- Control system life cycle planning.
- Control system Major version hardware and software upgrade.
- System and control performance improvement and control optimization.
- Virtualize and deploy control system with virtualized host infrastructure.
- Integrate third party software and hardware with control system.
- Develop and maintain control panel standard.
- Integrate bused devices for different protocols and managed site instruments assets.
- Coded control applications and configured HMI graphics.
- Carry out ICS system Cyber security evaluation and consultation, recommended cyber security enhancement solutions, execute solutions.
- Develop and maintain control system SOP, maintenance standard and procedures.
- Solve across platform, system, communications, controls, device levels problems.
Responsibilities
- Operational, project, and strategic support of PLC, DCS, Manufacturing Execution systems, and ancillary data systems.
- Provide technical leadership and contribute to the strategic vision of the Automation Engineering group.
- Develop and maintain design and fabrication standards for low voltage control panels, instrumentation communication protocols, and overall maintainability of control hardware.
- Accountable for system performance, continuous improvement, system and software platform upgrading, life cycle planning and large-scale and strategic innovation.
- Serve as industry and company recognized subject matter expert on multiple assigned unit operations across multiple platforms.
- Support and lead tasks and activities related to project engineering, including large and transformational projects.
- Serve as consulting to automation engineering and site leadership on major functionality challenges and industry best practices pertaining to design, policies, business processes, goals, and objectives.
- Oversee technical output of full-time engineers, contractors and vendors.
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision insurance
- a 401(k) plan and company match
- short-term and long-term disability coverage
- basic life insurance
- a tuition reimbursement program
- paid volunteer time off
- company holidays
- well-being benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
