Merck
Senior Specialist, Manufacturing Automation
USA - Virginia - Elkton · Senior · Contract
Sponsorship not specified$117k-$184kDetected 67 days ago
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About the role
- Our company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, consumer health products, and animal health products.
- Join our Manufacturing facility in Elkton, Virginia, and be part of a team that values integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity, and teamwork.
- The successful candidate will have the opportunity to apply their enthusiasm and technical skills as a member of a multidisciplinary team supporting the operation of pharmaceutical product manufacturing facilities.
Responsibilities
- Provide lead automation support for various manufacturing and laboratory systems such as Programmable Logic Controllers, Distributed Control Systems, analytical equipment, Manufacturing Execution systems, Data Historians, and Batch Reporting.
- Evaluate automation systems and develop strategies to ensure quality and stability of automation systems through future expansion, replacement, or upgrade.
- Initiate and lead collaboration within the Operations, Quality, and Technical organizations to resolve complex problems.
- Work closely with various site and central groups to ensure systems are designed, implemented, and maintained to meet manufacturing requirements.
- Design solutions to ensure quality and stability of automation systems through future expansions, replacements, or upgrades.
- Use technical knowledge to assure the efficient operation of a variety of automated processing and information technology systems. Take a lead role in installing and placing new systems into operation.
- Develop solutions for automation problems and oversee investigations of automation anomalies to prevent recurrence.
- Understand and support all cGMPs, safety, and environmental regulations.
- Communicate daily with operation, technical, and quality representatives within the area of support through the tier process.
- Periodically review automation documents, perform preventive maintenance, and revise or develop automation Standard Operating Procedures.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, or Information Technology.
- Minimum of seven (7) years of automation experience OR minimum of ten (10) years of experience as a process engineer supporting a highly automated process.
- Experience with DeltaV, PLC, PI, SQL, laboratory and shopfloor analytical systems, and Infobatch.
- Experience with Batch Processing and S88 standard.
- Knowledge of GAMP standard.
- Required
- Preferred
- Aseptic processing/sterile manufacturing experience.
- Required Skills:
- Audit Management, Automation Solutions, Business Integrity, Business Process Improvements, Corrective Action Management, Data Management, Distributed Control System (DCS), Global Health, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Preventive Maintenance, Problem Management, Process Engineering, Quality Management, Real-Time Programming, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), System Maintenance, Teamwork
Nice to have
- Preferred Skills:
Skills
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- Our company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities.
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Compensation
- The salary range for this role is
Benefits
- Provide automation support on various shifts and remote off-hour coverage support for trouble calls.
Company info
- Today, we are building a new kind of healthcare company - one that is ready to help create a healthier future for all of us.
Equal opportunity
- Employment laws, visit:
- EEOC Know Your Rights
- EEOC GINA Supplement
- We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing together, talented, and committed people with diverse experiences, perspectives, skills and backgrounds. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when people with diverse ideas, broad experiences, backgrounds, and skills come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another's thinking and approach problems collectively.
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