SR Instrumentation Technician, ONSITE, Fremont CA

Senior Instrumentation Technician

As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development, and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies' success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in several ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, mobility, networking, and work-life balance.

Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim's high regard for our employees.

The Senior Instrumentation Technician provides technical support, support the coordination of work activities, and follows established priorities within a team to ensure customer service needs are met. The position holder should have the ability to trouble shoot across all site automation technologies. The incumbent resolves issues and improve operations by making necessary logic changes, recommending, and executing equipment upgrades, and assists in developing new processes and procedures.

This role also performs calibrations and associated corrective actions on production, facility, and utility equipment.

The Senior Instrumentation Technician assists the Lead Technician in support of scheduling daily work, coordinating activities with other departments, and mentoring Instrumentation Technician as needed.

• Performs calibrations of inspection, measurement, and test equipment (process control and automation instrumentation) according to detailed calibration work instructions, including some unique and highly complex instrumentation.
• Records results in Enterprise Asset Management System.
• Identifies out-of-tolerance conditions and performs corrective action via adjustments, component replacement, correction factors, etc.
• Communicates results as required by SOP.
• Maintains equipment by providing troubleshooting to ensure equipment performance is reliable and meets expectations. This not only includes adjusting, repairing, and replacing components (sensors, cables, connectors, control boards, etc.), but also independent analysis of communications and configuration of systems and controllers.
• Performs preventive, corrective, or emergency work orders and respond to service calls while the plant is in operation, which may include off-shift periods and weekends.
• Corrective work may include replacing electrical or powered component, including multiple phase motors.
• Assists in the review of PLC or HMI program logic during certifications or troubleshooting to better understand deviations from proper operation.
• Develops or updates machine logic and execute test protocols either independently or developed by Engineering and under their direction, depending on the complexity for the scope.
• Maintains and ensures documentation, both written and electronic, is accurate, complete, and factual as required by policies, procedures, and regulatory guidelines.
• Documents activities supporting maintenance best practices to ensure that continuous improvement activities have adequate and reliable data for analysis.
• Reviews and analyzes measurement data collected by self or others to ensure proper documentation, adherence to procedures, and proper use of standards and references.
• Identifies abnormalities, trends, and/or predict future issues based on available data.
• Leads the development of calibration, certification, or other maintenance related procedures and methods based on detailed specifications, drawings, and other technical requirements and review and approve calibration data sheets.
• Reviews updated or modified calibration procedures developed by other Instrumentation Technicians or contractors.
• Maintains primary, secondary and/or working calibration standards.
• Reviews calibration data sheets for departmental calibration standards to ensure standards are within manufacturer's stated tolerances.
• Identifies out-of-tolerance conditions and communicate results as required by SOP.
• Executes test protocols developed by self…