Engineer Principal, Biotech DeltaV, SCADA, PLC JP

Position: Engineer Principal, Biotech DeltaV, SCADA, PLC - (JP14068)
Job Title: Engineer Principal, Biotech Delta

V, SCADA, PLC - (JP14068)
Location: Thousand Oaks, CA.
Employment Type: Contract
Business Unit: Advanced Technology and Automation
Duration: 3 years (with likely extensions and/or conversion to permanent)
Posting Date: 05/13/24
Pay Rate: $80 - $90/hour W2
Notes: Only qualified candidates need apply. Potential need for travel. Possibly visiting vendor sites within the US (once a quarter possibly for a week)

3 Key Consulting is hiring an Engineer Principal for a consulting engagement with our direct client, a leading global biopharmaceutical company.

Job Description:
Ideal candidate:

• Must have background in within Life sciences specifically Biotechnology and Biomedical Engineering.
• Emerson Delta-V DCS Programming Experience, Rockwell Automation SCADA and PLC Experience, Compliance with regulatory requirements such as 21 CFR Part 11
  
  Minimum of Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, Chemical Engineering, Biotech Engineering, or related life science engineering.

Our client’s Manufacturing and Clinical Supply (MCS) – Facilities & Engineering (F&E) Automation team, is looking for Engineers to support Clinical & Commercial Plant Automation programs and Capital projects, including complex and challenging automation initiatives that require a solid understanding of various automation platforms, integration between different platforms, analytical problem-solving techniques, project management, product lifecycle management, and operational excellence. They will require an extensive understanding and background in capital construction projects, design, programming, implementation, and lifecycle management of manufacturing process controls, automation, and field instrumentation technologies.

Job Responsibilities:

• Represent Plant Automation team during the development of project plan, business case, and cost estimates in partnership with key customers and stakeholders – ATO MCS Plant Operations, Engineering, Digital Technology & Innovation (DTI), Global Construction Project Management (GCPM), and provide necessary support to obtain funding approval.
• Based on project scope, work with DTI to estimate manhours and required resources using Manufacturing Information and Technology System (MITS).
• Represent Plant Automation team and participate in the preparation and implementation of detailed design, scope, schedule in partnership with Engineering and GCPM.
• Represent Plant Automation team during the project implementation of new automation solutions including Delta
  
  V Distributed Control System (DCS), Rockwell Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems (SCADA) related hardware, software, network infrastructure, and electronic Rt-reporting scope across various projects.
• Represent Plant Automation team during the post-implementation activities including operationalization of the new assets by extending hyper-care support, training the System Owners, and Manufacturing team, revising the SOPs, and training documents, delivering spare parts list, updating Maximo assets and client’s CMDB systems.
• Ensure compliance to client’s Engineering and Operational standards, specifications, and procedures as applicable during the project design and implementation.
• Represent Plant Automation team and support functional area projects focused on improving process equipment/utilities/facilities
  -to- large/sophisticated capital projects to integrate new drug substance and drug product manufacturing technologies into clinical/commercial facility.
• As applicable to the capital project scope, represent Plant Automation team and support new product introductions (NPI) or new technology introductions by performing automation engineering assessments, implementing automation system configuration changes, and supporting engineering and process qualification runs.
• Manage day-to-day support of ATO Drug substance operations
• Support a safe working environment by complying with all pertinent environmental health/safety practice, rules, and regulations.

Why is the Position Open?
Supplement additional workload on team.

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