Sr Automation Engineer

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Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team youll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the worlds toughest challenges like protecting the environment making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Division/Site Specific Information

Position will sit onsite at the Florence SC site and will support the Drug Substance Division (DSD) at Thermo Fisher Scientific. This role reporting to the Automation Manager ensures the flawless support maintenance and implementation of automated systems at our Florence South Carolina location.

Work schedule will be standard 8-5 M F fully onsite

As a Senior Automation Engineer at Thermo Fisher Scientific you will optimize production processes implement new automation technologies and drive continuous improvement initiatives. Youll work with cross-functional teams to ensure the efficient manufacture of high-quality products while maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements. This position offers the opportunity to contribute meaningfully by enabling our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer through innovative manufacturing solutions.

• You will provide design configuration installation and maintenance of automation software and associated hardware; including interacting with other teams as necessary.

• Working with IT Quality Production and other departments youll optimize existing automated processes while ensuring consistent product quality and regulatory compliance.

• Your analytical skills and engineering expertise will help drive cost reductions improve efficiency and enhance manufacturing capabilities across our operations.

• Design configure and troubleshoot industrial I/O systems including sensors actuators and field instrumentation ensuring accurate signal mapping and reliable integration with control systems.

Key Responsibilities

Troubleshooting & Support:Providerotatingon-call (24/7) technical support troubleshooting and optimization for manufacturing systems including but not limited to: Allen-Bradley (Rockwell) family productsEmerson DeltaVWonderWare Honeywell current DCS and data historians.

• System Design & Implementation:Contribute to automation and control system design; oversee contractors during implementation commissioning and validation of systems for both production and utility systems.

• Documentation:Develop review and maintain documentation including but not limited to functional design specifications (FDS) software design documentation and validation protocols.

• Compliance & Validation:Ensure all systems comply with cGMP GAMP 5 and FDA regulatory requirements.

• Project Execution:Partner with cross-functional teams (Process Engineering Operations Validation Quality IT) to execute automation projects manage vendors and support system upgrades and lifecycle management.

Supervision:

• Leads multidisciplinary project teams and manages third-party contractors and engineering service providers as required. Supervisory responsibilities and mentorship of less-experienced engineers may be required.

• BS in Engineering Computer Science or related Engineering/ Science field with 8 years of experience within regulated industries (pharmaceutical medical device or similar).

Preferred:

• Experience would include at least 5 years of hands-on experience with the Emerson DeltaV or Rockwell PlantPAx commercial Distributed Control System.

• Proven experience applying S88 in an automated environment and development of control system standards aligning with S88 methodology is required.
• Experience developing and supporting either Rockwell PlantPAx or Emerson DeltaV as a commercial Distributed Control System including is required.
• Hands-on experience with some of a broad range of Allen-Bradley PLCs and PanelView display products is preferred.
• Experience with data historian program development configuration and maintenance with at least one of the following historians is required: OSI (AVEVA) PI Rockwell FTHistorian DeltaV continuous historian is required.
• Experience with virtual machine environment and hypervisor software is preferred.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Experience developing and supporting either Rockwell PlantPAx or Emerson DeltaV as a commercial Distributed Control System.
• Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics and technical drawings with working knowledge of basic electrical circuits as related to I/O specification selection and configuration
• Exhibited knowledge of S88 batch control and configuration
• Exhibited knowledge of batch reporting is required
• Working knowledge of database structure including SQL Server with experience in data queries support and basic database management
• Working knowledge of IT/OT networking including managed switch VLAN and firewall configuration and management
• Strong knowledge of GMP and life sciences regulatory requirements.
• Proficiency in PLC programming HMI/SCADA systems DCS platforms and industrial networking.

Benefits

We offer competitive remuneration annual incentive plan bonus healthcare and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative forward-thinking organization and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity intensity involvement and innovation!