Automation Area Lead Eng

Top 3 must have's: Deep expertise/hands-on experience in DeltaV design, implementation and testing experience. Automation experience in the pharmaceutical/life science industry, with a preference for API/bulk manufacturing environments. Experience leading cross-functional automation teams.

Job description:
• Provide support or ownership of the technical scope for their assigned area of the automation project.
• Act as an automation representative in cross-functional program leadership meetings, ensuring alignment between automation, process engineering, digital/MES, and quality teams
• Serve as the key point of contact for client stakeholders and senior leadership regarding automation scope, progress, and risk mitigation of their assigned area
• Collaborate with Program technical offices to ensure the automation solution is aligned with the overall program automation philosophy and standards
• Provide technical support to the team working on their area of the project for the respective area/node and ensure that applicable standards are followed
• Ensure consistency of the automation deliverables (requirements, functional specifications, control strategies, phases, and recipes, etc.)
• Participate in P&ID and lead control strategy design
• Lead in defining the software components that need to be created or modified
• Communicates progress, issues, and needs to automation project manager for the entire workstream/all areas of the project
• Lead input, review, and approve of functional requirements and specifications
• Lead design of Parameter and Recipe Specification philosophy
• Responding to system integrator technical queries
• Lead and collaborate on the development of software testing strategies
• Identification of any remediation effort required on process control software
• Identify and analyze risks of technical nature particular to the area and planning responses
• Maintain compliance with training requirements
• Provide training and support to junior engineers and other team members.
• Champion the adoption of emerging technologies, tools, and methodologies that improve automation efficiency, reliability, and maintainability.