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Senior Automation Engineer
| Company | KBI Biopharma |
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| Location | Durham, NC, USA |
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| Salary | $116000 – $162800 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree in an engineering discipline and a minimum of 8 years of progressively responsible instrumentation/automation development, implementation, and maintenance activities or; Bachelor of Science degree and a minimum of 12 years of progressively responsible instrumentation/automation development, implementation, and maintenance activities.
- Minimum 5 years hands on experience with instrumentation and controls equipment including PLCs, HMIs, SCADA systems, and networking equipment
- Have strong automation engineering skills and ability.
- Have Fieldbus configuration and management experience with Profibus being preferred or be able to obtain the same.
- Experience with Unicorn, Wonderware, Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk, Rockwell Automation RSLogix, Siemens Apogee, Open Process Control (OPC) preferable.
- Experience with qualifiable MES systems, such as OSI Pi preferable.
- Must have experience with Windows Servers hardware and Microsoft Windows – applications.
- Experience with communication protocols including but not limited to RS-485, RS-232, Ethernet, Modbus & Profibus is preferable.
- Experience in Biopharmaceutical manufacturing preferable
- Must have experience with writing protocols, test scripts, user requirements, and system design documents.
- Must have strong organization, interpersonal, oral and written communication skills.
- Must be able to prioritize multiple commitments and technical problems.
- Must have the ability to shift priorities according to changes in department/facility needs and be open to different ideas/approaches.
Responsibilities
- Direct or support concurrent automation engineering projects on both technical and project management aspects for capital and operational projects while ensuring their success in meeting their respective objectives.
- Support the maintenance oversight of site instrumentation, plant level automation hard and software, and oversight of the Manufacturing Execution Systems, Building Management System, and Data Historian.
- Support Validation with the planning and execution of commissioning and validation protocols.
- Support CAPA, Change Control, Deviation, Risk Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, and other Quality Systems.
- Develop and maintain standard operating procedures and other procedures for installed systems.
- Support and comply with engineering standards, drawing controls, project controls and other procedures and standards necessary for the successful operation of the department as well as the creation and maintenance of the same.
- Other assigned duties.
Preferred Qualifications
- Fieldbus configuration and management experience with Profibus being preferred or be able to obtain the same.
- Experience with Unicorn, Wonderware, Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk, Rockwell Automation RSLogix, Siemens Apogee, Open Process Control (OPC) preferable.
- Experience with qualifiable MES systems, such as OSI Pi preferable.
- Experience in Biopharmaceutical manufacturing preferable.
