Senior Specialist, Utilities I&C Engineering

Job Description

Our Company is a global biopharmaceutical leader with a portfolio of prescription medicines, oncology, vaccines, and animal health products. We are driven by our purpose to develop and deliver innovative products that save and improve lives. With employees operating in more than 140 countries, we offer state of the art laboratories, plants and offices that are designed to Inspire our employees as we learn, develop, and grow in our careers.

We are proud of our 125 years of service to humanity and continue to be one of the world’s biggest investors in Research & Development.

Our Company is a global biopharmaceutical leader with a portfolio of prescription medicines, oncology, vaccines, and animal health products. We are driven by our purpose to develop and deliver innovative products that save and improve lives. With employees operating in more than 140 countries, we offer state of the art laboratories, plants and offices that are designed to Inspire our employees as we learn, develop, and grow in our careers.

We are proud of our 125 years of service to humanity and continue to be one of the world’s biggest investors in Research & Development. This position is within the Utilities & Energy Operations (UEO) group responsible for safe, compliant reliable, and cost-effective operation of Powerhouse, Central Plants and Water Facilities. The UEO department is responsible for operations of two combined cycle heat and power plants, five balance of plant boilers, and seven distributed campus chiller plant.

The power plant has a generating capacity of 60MW. The boilers have a total steam generating capacity just over 1,00,000 lbs. per hour. Campus chiller plants have a combined capacity of 40,000 tons consisting of combination of steam and electric chillers. Utility & Energy Operations is responsible for providing West Point campus utilities 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

UEO also serves as the after hours campus emergency response to maintenance issues.

As a member of the Central Utilities Department, the I&C Engineer’s primary role focuses on supporting the department as a technical resource, for the maintenance, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of instrumentation, control systems, and data systems owned and operated by the department. This role will be working with system owners, maintenance staff, reliability engineers, and EHS staff to ensure that equipment and systems are maintained or updated to be within corporate requirements and industry best practices.

This role will manage expense and capital project portfolio and budget for I&C related projects in the department and ensure robust management of change. Will be responsible for conducting incident investigations and RCA for control system related issues. Work with partners in Utilities, Facility Management, Strategy, our Research & Development division, our Manufacturing division, GWES Reliability COE and GES to solve problems and share best practices.

• Primary owner of Chiller Plant Control Systems and supporting process instrumentation.
• Collaborates and supports other automation systems within Utility & Energy Operations.
• Provide technical engineering insight for the maintenance and troubleshooting of Central Utilities instrumentation and control systems.
• Owns and champions alarm management and cyber security programs, and high-performance HMI development.
• Own and maintain active instrument list.
• Advises and interfaces with union technicians to achieve maintenance and repairs.
• Supports the development and maintenance of engineering and control systems, which may include the following items: drawings, performance parameters, equipment manuals, vendor information and PMs, safe operating limits / standard operating conditions, functional requirement specifications, configuration specifications, and design specifications.
• Manages expense and capital projects related to chiller automation.
• Manages Central Utilities I&C budget and master planning.
• Supports owners in reviewing and making recommendations to operating procedures for utilities and facility systems.
• Participate in/conduct Incident investigations/…