Thermo Fisher Scientific Hiring for Automation Engineer III at Greenville, NC Full Time

Job Description

Company information

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you will discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer! We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Business information

The Greenville, North Carolina, USA site is a large, multipurpose pharmaceutical development, manufacturing, and packaging campus. The operation provides both development and commercial services for sterile injectables forms.

Position summary

Performs automation support for pharmaceutical process control systems. Develops, enhances, and provides guidance of automation application for present and future process systems. Emphasizes minimizing production equipment downtime to increase equipment availability and efficiency along with regulatory compliance for process and support systems. Works closely with Production, Maintenance, Validation and Quality to maintain cGMP compliance, injury-free workplace, and on-time product delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical expertise and support with meeting business unit objectives and increasing production’s Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). Maintains system architectures and associated documentation.
• Completes process and building automation system repairs, problem solving, and upgrades in a safe, organized, well documented and efficient manner to meet defined production schedules and throughput.
• Diagnoses and resolves sophisticated automation hardware, software, instrument, and process problems to maintain system readiness. Frequently, this requires collaboration with other teams. Communicates issue resolution summary to Area Leadership.
• Develops and supports all aspects of alignment to User Requirement Specifications (URS), Functional Specifications, Design Specifications, and related user documentation to achieve and define system functionality for automation systems.
• Provides supporting data from automation systems to support production or quality investigations and improvement opportunities.
• Collaborate with validation teams to ensure all modifications to automation systems maintain GMP standards (FAT, SAT, IQ/OQ).
• Owns the startup of new automation systems by ensuring code and configurations meet specifications and validation requirements.
• Assists Engineers and Mechanics in identifying issues and faults within the equipment’s Programmable Logic Control (PLC) system using technical documents, ladder logic, etc.
• Owns results by taking actions to correct deficiencies and s variances and exceptions on automation systems.

Qualifications:

• BS Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering with three (3) years of automation experience.
• 3+ years of PLC automation control system start-ups, loop tuning, problem solving, and control system modifications.
• Experience in Sterile Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology or Medical Device Industry is preferred.
• Practical experience in process, utilities and/or equipment controls applications using Rockwell PlantPAx and Allen-Bradley PLC platforms. Knowledge of iFix and B&R PLCs is preferred.
• Applied development, support and problem solving of Rockwell FactoryTalk SCADA systems including FactoryTalk Historian.
• Basic automation network design, configuration, and problem solving. Familiarity configuration of Rockwell Stratix Switch hardware, Device Layer Ring, and Network Address Translation (NAT) a plus.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, attention to detail, organizational planning, and social skills.

As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values – Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement – working together to accelerate research, tackle sophisticated scientific challenges, drive technological innovation, and support patients in need! #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.