Automation Engineer

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

JOB DESCRIPTION

When you’re part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do exciting work, and be part of a team that values performance, quality and innovation. As part of a successful, growing global organization you will be encouraged to perform at your best. With revenues of $20 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and opportunities to make significant contributions to the world!

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE:

• Engineering degree qualified and/or with advanced, shown experience in PLC controlled production facilities.
• Experience in Allen Bradley PLC programming from first principles as well as advanced fault finding in both local control environments and network systems.
• Strong project management background within, for example, production engineering, process engineering within a regulated environment
• Strong problem solving capabilities with urgency to resolve
• Client facing experience preferred.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

Working with relevant Managers and Department Heads to generate automation strategies for existing and future business product lines.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Working autonomously to generate, report on and deliver project plans for all own engineering activities.
• Leading site and corporate important metric measures, including customer management, ensuring actions are completed on target.
• Offer expertise and steer new product introductions on automation engineering topics to define activity required to deliver the automation strategy of the project.
• Offer technical support on automation issues to the engineering and operations teams to resolve unplanned maintenance issues.
• Lead continuous improvement automation projects to improve reliability of site equipment!
• Carry out crucial periodic software reviews to guarantee compliance with all regularity bodies
• To act as client liaison when required and work closely with respective counterparts as client site to align processes across multiple manufacturing sites.
• To offer mentorship and expertise to the engineering maintenance team in problem solving issues associated with site wide utilities, including, be not just restricted to purified water, pure steam, and calibrated equipment.
• Ensure cGMP is applied in the work area and aligns with cGMP through following site SOP’s
• Offer mentorship and support to a small team of engineers, to ensure compliance with site wide preventative maintenance schedules
• Ability to empower, communicate and lead their own team and multi-functional teams to deliver project timelines

EH&S:

• Understand emergency procedures and follow safe systems of work.
• Ensure compliance with environment, health and safety rules, signage and instructions at all times.
• Ensure prompt reporting and investigation of all accidents, near misses and breaches of rules.