Automation Engineer

Role Summary

Automation Engineer within the R&D Automation team, responsible for day-to-day and project-based automation support, creating data architectures, and developing tools to enable scientists to focus on research. Focus areas include automation systems, data historians, IoT devices, and advancing Digital 4.0.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to project work that includes continuous improvement, retrofit, and capital investments to develop new technologies and optimize development and clinical manufacturing operations.
• Work as an integral part of the Automation team to design, architect, troubleshoot, and deliver future enhancements for automation related systems.
• Provide technical support and maintenance of the automation systems for multiple R&D facilities within the Framingham campus and Waltham locations.
• Provide technical solutions to a wide range of process automation related design challenges.
• Create data architectures to capture time-series data and create dashboards for easy data analysis, visualization, and remote operation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Life Sciences or related discipline
• 2 to 5 years of Automation experience
• Experience with multiple controls systems - Rockwell, DeltaV, Ignition
• Knowledge of data historians including OSI PI
• Knowledge of bus technologies and Instrumentation
• Knowledge of virtual infrastructures, including patching
• Strong computer and IT/OT knowledge including equipment networking and connectivity expertise
• Proficiency with communication protocols such as OPC/OPC-UA
• Understanding of equipment connectivity, from connecting the instrument into the control network, all the way through to the digital dashboard display
• Solid general engineering fundamentals
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and be accountable
• An innate curiosity to drive continuous learning and innovation

Skills

• Automation systems design and troubleshooting
• Data architecture for time-series data and dashboard creation
• Experience with Rockwell, DeltaV, Ignition
• OS I PI and data historian knowledge
• Industrial networking and IT/OT integration
• OPC/OPC-UA communication

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Life Sciences or related discipline