Job Title:
Automation Engineer Principal (DeltaV/PLC/Scada), Biopharma/GMP - (JP13312)
Location:
Thousand Oaks, CA. 91320
Business Unit:
Advanced Technology & Automation
Employment Type:
Contract
Duration:
3+ years with possible conversion to FTE
Rate:
$60 - $70/hour W2 with benefits
Posting Date:
11/01/2024
Target start date:
12/02/2024
3 Key Consulting is hiring! We are recruiting anAutomation Engineer Principalfor a consulting engagement with our direct client, a leading global biotechnology company.
We are seeking a professional Principal Automation Engineer for a long-term contracting opportunity with our client, a global leader in the biotech industry, as a member of the Manufacturing & Clinical Supply (MCS) Facilities & Engineering (F&E) Automation team.
The successful candidate will be required to support Clinical & Commercial Plant Automation Programs and Capital Projects for the EPO Manufacturing team, including complex and challenging system automation initiatives that require solid understanding of various automation platforms, integration between different platforms, analytical problem-solving techniques, project management, lifecycle management and operational excellence. This position requires an extensive understanding and background in capital construction projects, design, programming, implementation, and lifecycle management of manufacturing process controls, automation, and field instrumentation technologies. This role is expected to deliver on assigned capital projects and drive accountability.
Top Must Have Skill Sets:
- Life science experience
- Rockwell Automation Experience
- GMP Manufacturing facility experience
- Onsite position
Day to Day Responsibilities:
- Manage day-to-day support of ATO Drug substance operations
- Represent plant automation team in Area WCTs
- Lead a team of Automation engineers responsible to support and deliver on complex capital construction projects including Global Lifecycle Asset Management (GLAM) projects. Lead the direct reports including External Workers (EWs), onboarding the EWs, and ensuring the direct reports' adherence to client training requirements.
- Represent Plant Automation team during the development of project plan, business case, and cost estimates in partnership with key customers and stakeholders ATO MCS Plant Operations, Engineering, Operations Information Systems (OIS), Global Construction Project Management (GCPM), and provide necessary support to obtain funding approval.
- Based on project scope, work with OIS to estimate manhours and required resources
- Represent Plant Automation team and participate in the preparation and implementation of detailed design, scope, schedule in partnership with Engineering and GCPM.
- Represent Plant Automation team during the project implementation of new automation solutions including DeltaV Distributed Control System (DCS), Rockwell Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems (SCADA) related hardware, software, network infrastructure, and electronic Rt-reporting scope across various projects.
- Represent Plant Automation team during the post-implementation activities including operationalization of the new assets by extending hyper-care support, training the System Owners, and Manufacturing team, revising the SOPs, and training documents, delivering spare parts list, updating Maximo assets and Client CMDB systems.
- Ensure compliance to Client Engineering and Operational standards, specifications, and procedures as applicable during the project design and implementation.
- Represent Plant Automation team and support functional area projects focused on improving process equipment/utilities/facilities -to- large/sophisticated capital projects to integrate new drug substance and drug product manufacturing technologies into clinical/commercial facility.
- As applicable to the capital project scope, represent Plant Automation team and support new continuous improvements by performing automation engineering assessments, implementing automation system configurati.