Senior Automation Controls Engineer

Kindeva Drug Delivery

Kindeva is passionate about helping you realize the full potential of your career. We have the vision to see what’s possible, the expertise to make it happen and the agility to overcome any challenge along the way. Kindeva is a Global Leader in pharmaceutical development and commercialization of our Inhalation, Injectable and Transdermal devices, and the products we make save lives every day.  

ROLE SUMMARY

• The mission of Automation is to provide highly effective automation, manufacturing workflow solutions, and information collection and reporting for the St. Louis facilities. 
• Provide technical expertise required to achieve and sustain optimum reliability, maintainability, useful life, and life cycle cost for all facilities, manufacturing, utilities and process systems/assets.
• Develop, refine, and perform backup, restore, and disaster recovery automation engineering solutions.
• Provide automation troubleshooting expertise/guidance for corrective maintenance activities.
• Ensures project engineering and qualification strategies/programs are aligned with supporting site’s overall Asset Improvement strategies for supporting the customer base.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Perform equipment evaluations and troubleshoot where necessary.  Troubleshooting may require both mechanical and automated system evaluations.
• Serves as System Admin for SCADA, Batching, and Historian systems (Rockwell Software based).  
• Monitors equipment systems for reliability, maintenance history, downtime factors, efficiency, and other elements affecting overall up-time and quality output.
• Performs periodic software system backups, security (password) updates, PLC code comparisons, and maintains the Automation Archives.
• Prioritizes activities based on the criticality of systems to ensure quality and regulatory compliance.
• Acts as Automation’s single point of contact for their assigned area of responsibility.  Provides technical leadership and guidance to site operating groups through investigations, equipment assessments, generation of user requirements, design support and troubleshooting activities.
• Collaborate with managers within Engineering, Maintenance, and Utilities group  to ensure the mission, objectives, and strategies are executed consistently and to the fullest extent to support the site as intended and outlined in service level agreements with the varies customer groups.
• Initiates capital projects and leads those projects as required.
• Initiates and leads Change Control projects. 
• Generates or modifies standard operating procedures, risk assessments, forms, templates, and logs as required.
• Serves as System Administrator for all manufacturing, inspection, packaging, laboratory, and support systems where Automation group has the primary support role.  Maintain list of active users, adds new approved users, removes terminated users, and resets passwords when necessary.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS 

• Minimum- Bachelor of Science degree in a technical field Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical or Computer Engineering.
• Minimum- 5 to 10 years of experience in Engineering, Maintenance, Facilities, or Utilities
• Required - 2 years plus industrial automation experience; must have detailed knowledge of programming: Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs) and/or Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems.

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