Automation Engineer 1, Upstream

Position Overview

The Automation Engineer, DSM Upstream, will provide support to the Drug Substance Manufacturing (DSM) facility using DeltaV. This includes implementing changes to the Automation systems, updating design documents, executing tests, troubleshooting events, and providing automation on-call support. This role focuses on supporting the delivery of DeltaV logic for Upstream process areas, including Inoculum Lab, Media Preparation, Seed Culture, Large Scale Bioreactors, and Harvest.

 

Openings available from entry-level to senior engineers. Join us and grow your automation career.

Company Overview

FUJIFILM Biotechnologies is building the future of bioproduction in Holly Springs, North Carolina. By end of 2025, we’ll open North America’s largest end-to-end CDMO biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility, offering drug substance production, fill-finish, and packaging under one roof.

We’re looking for passionate, mission-driven people to help us realize this exciting vision and deliver the next vaccine, cure, or therapy. We offer a dynamic work environment and we’re proud to cultivate a culture that will fuel your purpose, energy, and drive—what we call Genki. Ready to shape the future of medicine? Let’s transform healthcare together!

Holly Springs, North Carolina, combines small-town warmth with proximity to Raleigh’s thriving tech scene, making it the perfect blend of community and opportunity.

Fujifilm is globally headquartered in Tokyo with over 70,000 employees across four key business segments of healthcare, electronics, business innovation, and imaging. We are guided and united by our Group Purpose of “giving our world more smiles.” Visit: https://www.fujifilm.com/us/en/about/region/careers

Job Description

What You’ll Do

• Perform Automation activities, such as code configuration, document development, and test execution using DeltaV
• Delivers accurate and on-time Automation work
• Creates standard code utilizing simple control strategies
• Assists with developing (generating, reviewing, maintaining) various specification documents (e.g., user requirements specification (URS), functional specification (FS), design qualification (DQ), etc.)
• Assists with developing (generating, reviewing, maintaining) various test protocols and functional testing documents (e.g., installation qualification (IQ), operational qualification (OQ), etc.)
• Assists with developing various test protocols and executes functional testing for documents
• Serves as on-call support for Automation inquiries and troubleshooting
• Collaborates with other departments, such as Manufacturing, Maintenance, and Validation
• Other duties, as assigned

Knowledge and Skills

• Effective communication, both written and oral
• Basic problem-solving skills
• Ability to present information to others
• Ability to apply knowledge of Automation subject areas

Basic Requirements (per experience level)

 

Automation Engineer 1

• High School Diploma/GED with 4 years of Automation, Instrumentation & Controls, or other relevant technical experience; or
• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering or other relevant field with no prior experience
• Preferred:
  • 1+ year of Automation experience

Automation Engineer 2

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering or other relevant field
• 2 years of Automation, Instrumentation & Controls, or other relevant technical experience
• DeltaV automation experience is required
• Preferred:
  • 3+ year of Automation experience

Automation Engineer 3

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering or other relevant field
• 5 years of Automation, Instrumentation & Controls, or other relevant technical experience
• DeltaV automation experience is required
• Preferred:
  • 6+ year of Automation experience

Automation Senior Engineer 1

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering or other relevant field
• 8 years of Automation, Instrumentation & Controls, or other relevant technical experience
• DeltaV automation experience is required
• Preferred
  • Master’s degree in technical field of study relevant to Automation or
  • Instrumentation & Controls with 6+ years of Automation experience

WORKING CONDITIONS & PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to discern audible cues.
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