Our client, a leader in the pharmaceutical industry is seeking an Automatin Engineer ( NPI Project ) to join their team at their Sligo Facility on a 12 month FTC.
Job summary:
To provide technical support and program management to all manufacturing operations and NPI's.
To provide technical leadership and control of all control system activities in the manufacturing facilities.
Responsibilities:
·Provide technical support to all control system related issues. Tasks include, daily trouble shooting, optimisation, and documentation control.
·Leadership of control system qualification activities during project start-up.
·Life cycle management of the onsite control systems, to GAMP-5 requirements.
·Project management of control system elements of continuous improvement projects. Work closely with process engineers/ technical support chemists and other departments to deliver these continuous improvement projects.
·Project management and technical development of future integrations of the control systems, with planned MES and ERP systems.
·Adheres to and supports all EHS & E standards, procedures and policies.
·Define proposals for long term plans for control system maintenance and improvements for management.
EHS Responsibilities:
1. Comply with the EHS policy and procedures and demonstrate EHS best practices in all work activities;
2. Continually be conscious of your own safety and that of others, always complying with safety notices and barriers;
3. Report any EHS incidents and/or Near Misses (unsafe acts and conditions) immediately to your supervisor and always raise the event in EHS system.
4. Support a culture of EHS excellence by recognizing and submitting opportunities for EHS improvement on EHS system.
5. Attend all required EHS training and medical surveillance programs;
6. Wear PPE as required.
Requirements:
· or B. Eng Degree or Post Graduate Diploma in a relevant Technical rs desirable)
Technical/Business Knowledge -Job Skills
7. 3+ years experience in process automation, with relevant experience of Vendor Packaged Equipment in a GMP environment in the pharmaceutical industry.
8. 3 years experience of the 21 CFR Part 11 and EU Annex 11 requirements for automated systems in the pharmaceutical industry.
9. 3 years plus experience of plant start-ups and/or new product introductions to GMP facilities. Must be able to lead these activities in a start-up environment.
10. Strong knowledge and experience of configuring and troubleshooting complex equipment control systems including PLC systems, and SCADA/HMI applications.
11. Knowledge and experience control system networks,. Profinet, Profibus, Modbus or CANBus.
12. Knowledge and experience of Ethernet based networks, and network architecture models.
13. Knowledge and experience of interfacing systems with plant historians such as Ignition & OSI-PI using OPC interfaces.
14. Knowledge and experience of the life cycle management of control systems, including backup, recovery, user access controls, configuration management and change management.
15. Knowledge and experience of Windows operating system administration.