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Senior Engineer, Automation
AstraZenecaGaithersburg, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 31 Mar 2026
💰 $152,464/yr($101,644/yr – $152,464/yr)
About the role
A professional engineer with formal team leader responsibilities who plans and coordinates specialist engineering activities and is charged with managing project revenues over a portfolio of projects. Alternatively provides technical and project management support to colleagues in an area of expertise within the engineering function.
Typical Accountabilities
Manages or provides technical support to multiple projects.
Acts as technical owner of specific area within Engineering function of AstraZeneca or as deep specialist in one field.
Either leads the planning, managing, and monitoring of major projects from concepts through implementation, or provides expert technical support to project manager carrying out these functions.
Identifies, evaluates, recommends and selects technical options to be adopted as global standards.
Provides technical advice and information to other function members.
Keeps own knowledge of best practices and new developments up to date.
Leads trouble shooting activities to resolve existing problems and inform future Engineering developments.
Assists in initiating, conducting and coordinating resource allocation and financial program evaluation reviews.
Gathers and analyses data related to establishing and maintaining business processes, procedures and policies.
Evaluates and monitors performance and efficiency of programs and projects to ensure target are met.
Assists with preparing budget status reports, forecast reports, reports on adherence to key performance indicators and other management reports.
Leads project staff in preparing cost applications and budgets for new business development.
Works on overall project planning by reporting on project schedules and deliverables
Helps co-ordinate resources within the business teams, project team or across the department.
Ensure compliance of own work and work of others with Safety, Health and Environment standards
Responsibilities of the Role
Subject Matter Expert (SME) on process/system integration
Determines process control requirements.
Resolves issues for automation processes.
Designs systems to process requirements.
Designs/executes commissioning studies.
Leads investigations.
Leads risk analysis.
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