Automation Engineering Technician; 2nd Shift

Position: Automation Engineering Technician (2nd Shift)
Location: Zebulon

Business Introduction We manufacture and supply reliable, high-quality medicines and vaccines to meet patients’ needs and drive our performance.

Our network of 37 medicines and vaccines manufacturing sites delivered 1.7 billion packs of medicines and 409 million vaccine doses in 2024 to help make a positive impact on the health of millions of people. Our supply chain is not just core to our operations; it’s vital to bringing our innovations to patients as quickly, efficiently and effectively as possible. Technology is transforming how we manufacture medicines and vaccines, enabling us to increase the speed, quality and scale of product supply.

We need the very best minds and capability to help us on our journey to make more complex products, harnessing the power of smart manufacturing technologies including robotics, digital solutions and artificial intelligence to deliver for patients.

Position Summary You will design, maintain and improve control and instrumentation systems for manufacturing equipment. You will work closely with production, maintenance, automation and engineering teams. We value hands-on problem solving, clear communication and a focus on safety and quality.

This role offers technical growth, exposure to modern manufacturing systems, and the chance to support work that helps get ahead of disease together.

Responsibilities This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

Provide daily on the floor production support to value stream areas experiencing engineering/automation or instrumentation and controls equipment issues or failure.

Work with maintenance, engineering and production staff in developing and implementing a variety of equipment improvements, primarily in the areas of OEE, reliability engineering, safety, or processand/or quality improvements.

Work with maintenance staff in continuously evaluating corrective, preventative and predictive maintenance strategies on production equipment and systems by participation in continuous improvement projects.

Develop technical documentation including e-pips, Change Control Request, technical specifications, training documents, etc as directed by maintenance supervisor.

Provide mentoring and support to maintenance staff as required.

Support capability development of engineering techs (ET) by participating is skills assessments and training sessions.

Why You?

Work type

This role is site based and requires 100% on site activities. 2nd shift Monday through Friday.

Basic Qualification We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals:

Associate degree, technical certificate, or equivalent experience in controls, instrumentation, electrical or related field.
3+ years hands-on experience with industrial control systems, including PLC programming.

Experience with instrumentation, sensors, actuators and control loop tuning.

Experience supporting commissioning, start-up or validation activities in a regulated environment.

Experience using maintenance or enterprise systems (for example SAP) to document work and parts.

Preferred Qualification If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline.

Technical expertise in P&, instrumentation and electrical wiring diagrams.

Proficient in SAP (work orders, history, maintenance plans).Good knowledge of cGMPs, and experience in an FDA regulated environment.

Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Bachelor's in science in Engineering

Experience with in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Civil/Structural, Instrumentation & Controls Technical knowledge of this the technology and ability to problem solve.

Works well on team, flexibility, time management, task prioritization, Strong communication skills, self-motivated

Ability to learn quickly, think creatively and apply new skills given rapid change in technology

Knowledge of Industrial communication protocols (Modbus, Ethernet/IP, Device Net, Control Net, BACnet, OPC UC, etc.)Experience w/ Software(s):
Kepware, Wireshark, Patch Manger, Service…