Senior Engineer, Automation

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Position Summary:

MTT (Manufacturing Technology & Transfer) works as an integral part of our Consumables Development and Manufacturing teams and is tasked with developing and deploying consumables manufacturing processes within our production environments.

The Senior Automation Engineer serves an important role in MTT to support the development of tools/automated equipment and processes from the prototype phase to full scale production. The role will collaborate with consumable Development teams, Reagent, Substrate & Oligo Production, Assembly Manufacturing, EHS, Facilities, Supply Chain, Strategic Sourcing, and Quality to develop to support the launch of new products and provide solutions to upgrade existing manufacturing infrastructure. The position will require a creative problem solver to evaluate and deploy new automation technology through proof-of-concept testing, feasibility evaluation, systems engineering controls, verification, characterization, and validation of solutions in an FDA regulated GMP environment.

Responsibilities:

• Elicit requirements for new medium to large scale systems
• Own implementation of small automation system or a significant portion of a larger automation system, with oversight.
• Core team representative on small PDP projects.
• Provide key deliverables to process improvement activities to increase efficiency of automation team
• Leverage business relationships with a target of impacting project quality and timelines
• Improve existing design architecture.
• Drives innovation within a system.
• Supports in driving innovation efforts at the functional level.
• Significant impact to immediate project, department and possibly the company.  Performs cross functional tasks.
• Influences decisions at critical interfaces to other disciplines.
• Uses judgment to define scope and objectives of project, assist in developing instructions and guidelines to perform the functions of the job most effectively.
• Work is independent and collaborative in nature.  Provides regular updates to leadership on project/system status
• Execution of small to medium scale project scope, including ownership of all deliverables, with guidance.
• Applies best practices and knowledge of internal/external business challenges to improve products, processes or services.
• For assigned projects, understands the market drivers, competitive landscape and key competitive advantage
• Works effectively across disciplines. and with internal and external customers.
• Mentors supporting engineers on technical skills in one's area of expertise.
• Escalates performance-related feedback through project and functional managers.

Listed responsibilities are an essential, but not exhaustive list, of the usual duties associated with the position. Changes to individual responsibilities may occur due to business needs.

Requirements:

• Able to lead investigation and resolution of automation problems within own discipline, with oversight.
• Seasoned, experienced professional with a full understanding of area of specialization Expert use of departmental processes and tools.
• Proficient in Illumina Product Development Process (PDP) and applies PDP principles in a leadership role. 
• Full understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and global validation procedures suite.
•  Able to plan activities of allocated project scope with guidance and prioritization of daily activities/assignments to supporting team members while maintaining project schedule.
• Able to identify risk and provide recommendations for risk mitigation related to automation and at project level.
• Able to research potential vendors have technical discussions with vendors on partnering opportunities on a specific project.
• Able to lead selection of appropriate automation components and vendors
• Able to manage vendors and engineering contractors on a technical level for component delivery.
• Able to track associated project expenses and