Senior Automation Engineer II

Kindeva Drug Delivery•Bridgeton, MO

About The Position

At Kindeva, we make products that save lives, ensuring better health and well-being for patients around the world. The mission of Automation is to provide highly effective automated manufacturing workflow solutions, information collection systems, and reporting solutions for the St. Louis facilities. This role provides the 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. The engineer will develop, refine, and perform backup, restore, and disaster recovery for automation/vision engineering solutions, and provide automation/vision troubleshooting expertise/guidance for corrective maintenance activities. Ensures project engineering and qualification strategies/programs are aligned with supporting the site's overall Asset Improvement strategies for supporting the customer base.

Requirements

Associate’s degree or Higher; Preferred Bachelor of Science degree in a technical field, Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical or Computer Engineering; OR 8+ years in industrial automation software, robotics, or machine vision controls.
Experience in an FDA regulated industry (e.g. Pharmaceuticals, Medical Device).
Preferred 8 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.

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.