Automation Engineer Jobs

About The Position

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.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 401(k) match
• other wellness benefits