Senior Automation Engineer – Cork, Site Based

Zenith Technologies, now a Cognizant Company is a world leader in delivering digital transformation solutions to Life Sciences. Through our knowledge and expertise in Automation, MES & Digital, we deliver stable manufacturing systems that are optimised to improve operational efficiencies, whilst maintaining compliance. Our specialist engineering teams have the aptitude to deliver and support Pharma 4.0 architectures and solutions covering all IT, OT and IoT applications, infrastructures, and services.

About the role:

We are looking to hire a Senior Automation Engineer to join the Automation Team supporting our Multinational Biotech Client based in Cork. The selected candidate will be involved in the design, configuration, implementation, testing, commissioning, troubleshooting and change control for this client. The successful candidate would be required to have experience in the Pharmaceutical and/or Biotechnology sectors and must have previous DCS experience. GDP/CSV mindset is essential.

Responsibilities:

• Studying functional requirements and process control strategies for control systems.
• Provide automation scopes and estimates for planning automation projects
• Take a lead role in the delivery of DCS projects from planning through to design implementation testing and closeout
• Lead teams as required to deliver project scopes
• Support the Automation Projects Manager in maintenance and control of project schedules, resourcing and stakeholder communications
• To define the testing requirements and supervise the internal testing to the agreed procedures.
• Preparing test cases.
• Maintain the validated state of the site control systems in line with Lilly quality standards.
• To design, build, configure and validate DCS Foxboro platform.
• To be responsible for configuring different Foxboro DCS applications and software (Alarm Manager, FoxView Environments, Access Levels)
• Pi Vision displays configuration.

Requirements:

• Proven experience as an Automation Engineer with increased levels of responsibility.
• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting automation solutions for clients in the Pharmaceutical and/or Biotechnology industries
• Good knowledge of GAMP lifecycle and quality management processes employed in the pharmaceutical sector
• Experience with DCS or PLC software design.
• Good analytical & problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Leadership abilities, works well in a team environment
• Requires a bachelor’s degree equivalent in Chemical, Electrical or Bio-Process Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years’ experience as an Automation Engineer/Control Systems Engineer or Software Engineer or related occupation