Lead MES Engineer

at  Cognizant

LEAD MES ENGINEER

Do you have Lead MES Engineering and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing experience, and are you seeking a new job? Cognizant is looking for a Lead MES Engineer and the remote role comes with an attractive salary and benefits package. You’ll be working with a collaborative and inclusive company and will be involved in the design, build and deployment of MES solutions for GMP manufacturing.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

To apply for this Lead MES Automation Engineer role, you will need to be a degree-qualified engineer with over good years of pharmaceutical manufacturing experience. You will also require the following:

• Expert knowledge of an MES used within process industries or life science manufacturing such as (Aspen MES, Emerson Syncade/DeltaV MES, Korber PAS-X, Siemens OpCentre)
• Hands-on configuration experience of master recipes / master batch records
• Experience of L2 and L4 Integrations
• Programming experience such as IEC 61131-3 Structured Text
• Knowledge of industry standards ISA-88 and ISA-95
• In-depth knowledge of at least one Drug Substance or Drug Product process technology
• Pharmaceutical validation concepts
• cGMP, GAMP and GDP standards
• Good verbal and written communication

DESIRABLE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Aspen MES suite (IP.21, AspenONE Process Explorer, Aspen Production Record Manager (APRM), Aspen Production Execution Manager (APEM))
• Design and Configuration of Master Recipes, Recipe Procedure Logic (RPL) and Basic Phase’s (BP/BPL)
• Basic SQL Query development

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Lead MES Engineer you will join a distributed project team where you will lead and develop MES solutions leveraging existing core libraries and create innovative solutions to new problems. You will manage significant technological complexity and collaborate with PM and the client to actively manage and mitigate risk.

In this Lead MES Engineer role, you can expect to:

• Create business process flow diagrams for pharmaceutical product recipes based on paper batch records, source documents and workshop activities.
• Collect and analyse site requirements to develop user requirements.
• Design solution and recipe structures to meet process and equipment requirements while leveraging core libraries and adhering to guiding design principles.
• Implement hierarchical recipes to control the process and equipment workflows.
• Modify or create basic design elements used within recipes.
• Gather and configure master data for Design, Test and Production environments.
• Conduct design reviews and dry runs to prove and improve your designs.
• Create solution design and configuration documents.
• Support Test Plan and Test Case Development
• Support UAT and User Training

To apply for this Lead MES Automation Engineer role, you will need to be a degree-qualified engineer with over good years of pharmaceutical manufacturing experience. You will also require the following:

• Expert knowledge of an MES used within process industries or life science manufacturing such as (Aspen MES, Emerson Syncade/DeltaV MES, Korber PAS-X, Siemens OpCentre)
• Hands-on configuration experience of master recipes / master batch records
• Experience of L2 and L4 Integrations
• Programming experience such as IEC 61131-3 Structured Text
• Knowledge of industry standards ISA-88 and ISA-95
• In-depth knowledge of at least one Drug Substance or Drug Product process technology
• Pharmaceutical validation concepts
• cGMP, GAMP and GDP standards
• Good verbal and written communicatio