Automation Engineer III

National Resilience

National Resilience

Software Engineering
west chester, oh, usa
Posted on Wednesday, February 7, 2024

A career at Resilience is more than just a job – it’s an opportunity to change the future.

Resilience is a technology-focused biomanufacturing company that’s changing the way medicine is made. We’re building a sustainable network of high-tech, end-to-end manufacturing solutions to better withstand disruptive events, serve scientific discovery, and reach those in need.

For more information, please visit www.resilience.com

Job Description

The Automation Engineer III is a professional engineer who plans and coordinates specialist engineering activities and is charged with managing projects within the Inspection, Device Assembly and Packaging PET. This position is responsible for ensuring operation and maintenance of all assets within the operation and leading improvement initiatives as the technical expert and acts as technical support for all project related work. This includes coordination of technical resources, technical trouble shooting and process improvements. This position requires collaboration with operations, engineers, other leaders, and OEM suppliers.

  • Interface with several types of equipment and systems, including but not limited to PLCs, SCADAs, HMIs, Servers, Databases, Data Historian, Visualization, and other automation equipment.

  • Experience with networking, including but not limited to VLAN, Subnets and IP protocols

  • Leads the following continuous process improvement efforts: yield improvements, OEE improvements and waste reduction for improvement of automated pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment

  • Drive root cause analysis and perform/facilitate technical investigations and assessments

  • Authors and review documents including Standard Operating Procedures, URS, Equipment specifications, coding specifications and Engineering reports

  • Author, review, execute and close out Change Controls, Deviations, CAPAs, SAT and IQ/OQ protocols, and engineering commission tests/studies

  • Develops of project justification and engineering proposals

  • Evaluates new software and/or tools.

  • Maintain external technical relationships and collaborates with equipment and material suppliers

  • Accountable for training team members on equipment, processes, and Standard Operating Procedures that are new or have been modified to support new products, new market launches or new clients

  • Maintain external technical relationships and collaborates with equipment and material suppliers

  • Works collaboratively within operation/facility as well as with other engineers and technical community, locally and globally.

  • Provide "on-call"/ “off-shift as required.

  • Key contact for regulatory inspections as technical process owner

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Experience supporting manufacturing operations in a regulated or cGMP environment

  • Experience with the following Automation systems; PLCs, HMIs, SCADA, Rockwell Inductive (Ignition) Aveva (Wonderware), Siemens, Emerson (GE) or B&R

  • Ability to interpret diagrams, drawing, PLC code and other schematics.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline

  • Experience with Factory Talk Batch

  • Experience with Data Historian and Visualization systems such as Aveva PI (OSI PI)

  • Experience with Microsoft SQL database design

  • Knowledge of GAMP 5

Resilience is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or characteristic, or other non-job-related characteristics or other prohibited grounds specified in applicable federal, state, and local laws. Requests for reasonable accommodation can be made at any stage of the recruitment process.

Resilience offers employees a robust total rewards program including equity, an annual cash bonus program, a 401(k) plan with a generous company match and our benefits package which is thoughtfully designed to support our employees with great healthcare (including medical, dental and vision), family building benefits, life and disability insurance, flexible time off, paid holidays, other paid leaves of absence, tuition reimbursement and support for caregiving needs. Our target base pay hiring range for this position is $80,000.00 - $113,750.00 per year. Actual base pay is dependent upon a number of factors, including but not limited to, the candidate’s geographical location, relevant experience, qualifications, skills and knowledge. Excited about Resilience and the biomanufacturing revolution? We encourage you to apply and start a conversation with one of our recruiters.