Utilities Automation Engineer
Amgen
Full-time
Remote friendly (West Greenwich, RI)
United States
Operations
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Role Summary
Utilities Automation Engineer
Responsibilities
- Provides technical support to commercial manufacturing and utilities operations, specific to process control, automation infrastructure, and utility systems
- Works closely with multiple teams, including manufacturing, process engineering, utility operations, maintenance, quality assurance, and validation to implement operational improvements and projects
- Leads and supports technical root cause analysis, incident investigations, and fixing process control issues related to electrical, instrumentation and control systems supporting utility generation and distribution systems
- Provides technical support to troubleshoot and resolve equipment, automation, or process issues in the field
- Develop original code to support operational changes and optimizations on multiple utility PLC platforms
- Perform system owner responsibilities such as change control, maintenance, backup/restore, and disaster recovery
- Devises new approaches to complex problems through adaptations and modifications of standard automation technical principles
- Develop, organize, analyze, and present results for operational issues and engineering projects of small scope and complexity
- Communicates with multiple levels within the organization, highlighting issues and proposing solutions
- Provides technical support and issue resolution 24x7 on-call support of Automation systems on a rotational based frequency
- Applies experience and knowledge of industry best practices and tools to attain an innovative organization
Qualifications
- Basic Qualifications:
- High school diploma / GED and 8 years of automation and/or engineering experience OR
- Associate’s degree and 6 years of automation and/or engineering experience OR
- Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of automation and/or engineering experience OR
- Master’s degree
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree related technical field
- 3+ years’ experience in Automation Engineering in a GMP manufacturing environment with at least 1+ year experience in the Life Sciences industries
- 3+ years’ combined experience with the following product platforms: Allen-Bradley PLCs, FactoryTalk suite of applications
- Experience with the following automation platforms: Siemens Step-7/TIA Portal, WinCC, Siemens Desigo, iFix SCADA, OSI PI, Emerson DeltaV
- Direct experience in a regulated environment (e.g. GMP, OSHA, EPA) including a detailed understanding of current good manufacturing practices
- Familiarity with industry standards for process control systems, software development life cycle methodologies, ISA-S88, 21 CFR Part 11, Validation, and GAMP
- Experience with WFI generation/storage/distribution, clean steam generation, chillers/boilers, gas storage/distribution (e.g. Oxygen), building automation preferred
- Experience with validation and change control methodology
Skills
- Automation engineering
- Process control
- Root cause analysis
- PLC programming
- Project leadership
- Lifecycle management
- Operational Excellence
Education
- Bachelor’s degree preferred in related technical field