Sr. Manufacturing Engineer -Controls

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Internal Manufacturing Indianapolis is a function within Roche Diagnostics
- Near Patient Care Operations, responsible for the strip manufacturing of the majority of our blood glucose monitoring portfolio for the global demand of our patients. In the future, Internal Manufacturing Indianapolis will also be responsible for sensor manufacturing for our continuous glucose monitoring portfolio.

Join our Equipment Performance team at Roche Diagnostics, Indianapolis, as a Sr. Manufacturing Engineer
- Controls. This role offers the opportunity to lead continuous improvement projects using a data-driven approach while providing technical support for our advanced automated manufacturing equipment.

You'll troubleshoot equipment and process challenges, optimize performance and reliability, and mentor engineering, maintenance, and production team members as they develop their skills. The position also includes testing and validation activities to ensure our production processes and equipment maintain validated compliance with Roche Diagnostics standards and regulatory requirements.

• Leads the development, implementation and maintenance of manufacturing methods, procedures and processes in the manufacture of products, components, subassemblies and final assemblies.
• Develops and improves automation and electromechanical processes by studying requirements; researching and testing manufacturing and assembly methods and materials; and soliciting observations from operators and maintenance technicians.
• Interfaces with design and process development engineering in coordinating the release of new products to the manufacturing process.
• Helps to estimate manufacturing cost and makes recommendations for tooling, controls system hardware and software, and process requirements of new or existing production lines.
• Manages multiple projects and time scopes for each project.
• Ensures process changes are characterized and implemented following validation policies and procedures.
• Assures system and product quality by designing testing methods; testing finished
  -product and system capabilities; and confirming fabrication, assembly, and installation processes.
• Assists department leadership in setting strategic direction.
• Possess and apply a broad knowledge of principles, practices, and procedures of the field.
• Maintains product and company reputation by complying with government regulations.
• Provide training, guidance, and advice to lower level staff.
• Support key initiatives such as information management, cyber security, and life cycle management.
• Participates in the on-call rotation to provide off shift / weekend support to production, as needed.

• This Sr. level role requires extensive hands-on experience troubleshooting and optimizing manufacturing equipment controls systems. Candidates must demonstrate a proven track record of successfully diagnosing and resolving complex equipment challenges. Key areas of focus include, but are not limited to :
• Electrical panels and systems
• PLC ladder logic and structured text (preferably Allen Bradley PLCs using RSLogix/Studio 5000)
• Motion Controls (e.g. VFDs, servos, etc.)
• Human Machine Interface (HMI) (preferably Factory Talk View SE/ME)
• Vision Inspection (preferably Cognex Insight Explorer)
• Distributed I/O (preferably Profibus/Ethernet IP)
• Sensors (e.g. part presence/absence, position, process monitoring, etc.)
• Comfortable modifying manufacturing equipment control system programs, configurations, and electrical systems to support continuous improvement and equipment reliability activity.
• Skilled in working with vendors to identify improvement project solutions and obsolete component replacements.
• Experienced in developing and executing equipment qualification requirements, testing, and documentation.
• Experienced in collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement improvements, qualify changes, and resolve quality/downtime issues.
• Ability to analyze test data and run…