Principal Automation Engineer

Job Title: Principal Automation Engineer

Location: Waltham, MA

About the Job

Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Your skills could be critical in helping our teams accelerate progress. 

The Principal Automation Engineer is responsible for ensuring the reliable operation and implementation of all process automation equipment and providing technical leadership for the Automation team. This team supports site-level Capex and Opex projects and provides day to day Automation and I&C support to the R&D sites located in Waltham, MA. This includes- development of concept, design, fabrication, commissioning and qualification of process and other systems.

The Automation group resides within the Engineering, Automation, and Technology Support group. The Principal Automation Engineer will report to the head of Engineering, Automation and Technology Support. 
 

This position requires the incumbent to be competent to provide technical leadership covering a wide variety of process equipment systems used in clinical Manufacturing processes, Purification and Fill Finish operations.  This position is also responsible for the understanding of data architectures utilized in the collection, analysis and visualization of time series data to support laboratory processes.
 

The team will work with the site scientific teams in the development and/or technology transfer of new solutions and modifications to our existing manufacturing process systems.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?​

Main Responsibilities

 This role works independently, with minimal supervision/direction and is responsible for:

• Providing technical Automation and I&C engineering solutions and oversite.

• Ensuring customers & stakeholder groups receive timely engineering solutions and services.

• Ensuring equipment automation designs and solutions are in compliance with regulatory guidance.

• Ensuring solutions satisfy the needs of internal customers in accordance with company guidelines, HSE requirements and procedures while meeting budget and schedule commitments.

• Providing guidance for Capital budget planning

• Ensuring the efficiency of, and compliance to, HSE and Corporate standards

• Maintaining OT equipment, including servers and software, and ensuring patching is current and in compliance

About You

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and 12 or more years of relevant progressive engineering work experience within the Biotechnology or Pharmaceutical industry.

• Previous experience which demonstrates the ability to effectively communicate and influence through a variety of modes and methods

• Possesses the ability to proactively analyze problems, identify key issues, and develop strategic, integrative, and tactical solutions.

• Demonstrated bias for empowering individuals and commitment to customers

• Cooperate transversally: collaboration and influence skills up-down-across functions, organizations, and cultures/geographies

• Previous experience leading teams and managing automation projects

• Embrace change and innovation and initiate new & improved ways of working

• Strong interpersonal skills

• Previous experience in a cGM