Job Description
Job Title: Lean and Automation Engineer
Duration: 05+ months contract on w2
Location: Davie, FL
Shift Schedule: Standard working hours of 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Description:
Education:
Preferred Skills:
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt; strong Green Belts with proven hands-on delivery considered. A practical project example will be discussed on site.
We're looking for a hands-on Continuous Improvement & Automation Engineer who identifies, assesses, builds, and implements solutions that reduce waste and improve manufacturing performance - not a facilitator or meeting coordinator. You will personally bring approved projects to life through analysis, solution development, automation build, training, implementation, and sustainment. Success is measured by high-quality opportunities identified, approved projects implemented, Finance-validated benefits delivered, and compliant results sustained. This role offers meaningful ownership and impact in a regulated Oral Solid Dosage environment.
Key Responsibilities
Sharath Babu: sharath.b@sunrisesys.com | (732) 395-4575 | URL: www.sunrisesys.com
Duration: 05+ months contract on w2
Location: Davie, FL
Shift Schedule: Standard working hours of 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Description:
Education:
- Master's degree in industrial, manufacturing, mechanical engineering, or a related technical discipline is required.
- 2-3 years of pharmaceutical industry experience is required, including at least 2 years supporting Oral Solid Dosage (OSD) or tableting/compression operations.
- Demonstrated completion of waste-reduction or automation projects with the candidate as the primary executor, not a coordinator.
- Lean Manufacturing, DMAIC, Value Stream Mapping, SMED, OEE improvement, statistical analysis, Root Cause Analysis, and hands-on process analysis.
- Ability to identify opportunities, develop business cases, quantify benefits, and build practical workflows, dashboards, or data tools.
- Strong project ownership and effective cross-functional execution within GMP, data-integrity, safety, and quality requirements.
Preferred Skills:
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt; strong Green Belts with proven hands-on delivery considered. A practical project example will be discussed on site.
- Power BI, Power Automate, advanced Excel, SQL, SAP, MES/EBR, and historian or manufacturing analytics platforms.
- Experience applying modern analytics and AI-enabled tools to improve operational reliability and performance.
- Self-starter with strong analytical, troubleshooting, systems-thinking, communication, documentation, and compliance skills.
- Ability to challenge historical practices and carry an approved idea through build, training, implementation, handoff, and sustainment.
We're looking for a hands-on Continuous Improvement & Automation Engineer who identifies, assesses, builds, and implements solutions that reduce waste and improve manufacturing performance - not a facilitator or meeting coordinator. You will personally bring approved projects to life through analysis, solution development, automation build, training, implementation, and sustainment. Success is measured by high-quality opportunities identified, approved projects implemented, Finance-validated benefits delivered, and compliant results sustained. This role offers meaningful ownership and impact in a regulated Oral Solid Dosage environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Personally perform process studies, time studies, waste assessments, and bottleneck analysis to identify improvement and automation opportunities.
- Develop evidence-based opportunity assessments covering the baseline, expected operational and financial benefit, implementation needs, cost, risk, timing, and sustainment approach.
- Present opportunities to the Site Leadership Team (SLT) for prioritization, approval, and sponsorship; project priority and resource commitment remain with the SLT.
- Own approved projects from analysis through solution build, training, implementation, benefit realization, and sustainment, working with Operations, Finance, Quality, Engineering, and IT/OT as required.
- Develop and deploy practical digital and analytics tools, including Power BI dashboards, Power Automate workflows, and electronic data collection, to eliminate non-value-added work.
- Improve OEE, cleaning and changeover/setup time, labor productivity, throughput, and capacity across manufacturing, laboratories, offices, and warehouse operations.
- Partner with Finance to classify and validate benefits consistently, maintain one agreed view of project value, and prevent duplicate reporting or double counting.
- Establish process ownership, standard work, training, controls, documentation, and performance tracking before project closure.
- Ensure all improvements comply with GMP, data integrity, safety, quality, change-control, and validation requirements in an FDA-regulated environment.
Sharath Babu: sharath.b@sunrisesys.com | (732) 395-4575 | URL: www.sunrisesys.com
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Davie, FL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 1990 |
| Website | http://www.sunrisesys.com/ |
About Company
Sunrise Systems was founded in 1990 with a clear vision to deliver world-class staffing service solutions in all labor categories, including IT consulting and solutions; all with the commitment to provide service that exceeds expectations and become the most trusted name in the industry. More than two and a half decades later, we pride ourselves on being at the forefront of the staffing industry. Combining our deep industry expertise, insights, and global resources, we have partnered with our clients to connect them with top professionals across several different industries.
We provide cost-effective Managed Staffing Solutions, Information Technology and Information Technology Consulting Services to several Fortune 500 companies and U.S. Government agencies. We provide our clients with flexible engagement models and customized products that are budget and time specific. Understanding the challenges that every business faces, we offer our services either on-site at the clients' site or from one of our globally distributed technology centers. Our onshore and offshore development capabilities ensure that we excel at meeting customer requirements every single time.
Our collective business experience spans over two and a half decades and ranges from:
- Business, management, and technical fields
- Information technology consulting and software solutions.
- Providing strategic support for the development and long-term growth of new business ventures across several industries including but not limited to; accounting, banking, finance, and recruitment.
- Motivating technology staff and establishing partnerships with Fortune 500 companies
Sunrise Systems has a vast range of competence in:
- Design, development, and support of cloud-based solutions from simple to highly complexed
- Database administration of multi-platform applications, complex databases, and web-based environments that include all aspects of installation, planning, maintenance, and monitoring.
- Data processing and data migration
- Application re-engineering and platform migration
- Working with the Information Systems and end-user communities at all levels to resolve issues and establish consensus.
Skills
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
- Automationunmatched
- Automation Engineeringunmatched
- Biotech and Pharmaceuticalunmatched
- Business Caseunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Data Collectionunmatched
- Data Qualityunmatched
- Document Managementunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Establish Prioritiesunmatched
- FDA Requirementsunmatched
- Financeunmatched
- GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices)unmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
- Laboratoryunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Lean Manufacturingunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Manufacturing Analysisunmatched
- Mechanical Engineeringunmatched
- Operational Improvementunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Performance Analysisunmatched
- Performance Managementunmatched
- Plan Meetingsunmatched
- Power BIunmatched
- Process Analysisunmatched
- Process Developmentunmatched
- Project Evaluationunmatched
- Project Trackingunmatched
- Quality Engineeringunmatched
- Reliability Engineeringunmatched
- Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
- Requirements Validation/Verificationunmatched
- Riskunmatched
- Root Cause Analysisunmatched
- SAPunmatched
- SQL (Structured Query Language)unmatched
- Safety Trainingunmatched
- Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
- Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED)unmatched
- Six Sigma DMAICunmatched
- Statisticsunmatched
- Value Stream Mappingunmatched
- Warehousingunmatched
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