Sanofi
Framingham, MA
Estimated pay: Est. $28–$40/hr (market estimate, not employer-stated)
Shift: Full time
Job Title : Automation Engineer Location: Framingham, MA About the Job Key Responsibilities may differ among employees with same job title and may change over time in accordance with business needs. This position is responsible for providing automation expertise for small-to-medium projects. These projects include continuous improvement, retrofit, and large capital investments to optimize manufacturing and supporting operations. This person will design, architect, troubleshoot, and deliver future enhancements for automation related systems. The Automation Engineer will be responsible for using expertise to design innovative solutions. These solutions span the areas of automation systems, data historians, IoT devices, etc. with a key focus on pushing new boundaries of Digital 4.0. The person will be responsible for maintaining and providing technical support, ensuring availability of the automation systems for multiple manufacturing facilities. We deliver 4.3 billion healthcare solutions to people every year, thanks to the flawless planning and meticulous eye for detail of our Manufacturing Supply teams. With your talent and ambition, we can do even more to protect people from infectious diseases and bring hope to patients and their families. About Sanofi: We’re an R D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve lives. Main Responsibilities Leadership: Providing leadership and direction to junior team members while embodying the principles of the Sanofi Global Leadership Model Leading automation related projects Managing contractors for staff augmentation or project roles Ensuring timely issue escalation to senior management and cross-functional support teams Partnering with support teams i.e., Manufacturing, Quality, etc to ensure deliverables are completed to meet to production schedules Mentoring junior automation engineers to ensure that the team applies compliant, efficient solutions to projects Automation: Provide technical solutions to a wide range of process automation related design challenges. Solutions are imaginative, thorough, practical, and consistent with organization objectives Responsible for ensuring process equipment automation are available to support operations schedule requirements Managing medium-to-large departmental projects and ensuring that the appropriate controls, approvals, and validation requirements are implemented Integrate systems and data from a variety of skidded systems, analytical equipment, and process/building control systems Developing robust solutions that have minimal downtime and ensure data integrity Lead development of automation standards Training /Deviations /Compliance/Safety: Complying with Sanofi requirements for training Ensuring Inspection Readiness of assigned areas Overseeing completion of investigations and deviations Ensuring all assigned deviations and CAPA’s are closed in a timely manner Ensuring that Automation documentation is compliant and inspection ready Participating in inspections conducted by external regulators Complying with requirements from Genzyme’s Safety Program including Health and Safety regulations and OSHA requirements Continuous Improvement: Working collaboratively with inter-department and cross-functional teams to lead necessary changes in a timely and productive manner Partnering with Manufacturing to troubleshoot and drive resolution of process issues and proactively driving projects to improve manufacturing process Partnering with Operational Excellence to drive process improvements through Kaizens, Kanban, 5S and VSM Leadership Qualifications: This position does not have any direct reports but might have direct reports of more junior engineers in the future About You Basic Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science or any technological field and 5 years of experience OR Master s degree with 3 years of relevant experience Hands-on programming experience with real-time manufacturing automation and control systems (such as DeltaV, PLCs, PI, Werum PAS-X, etc.) Hands-on technical experience with troubleshooting and root cause analysis for manufacturing control systems, specifically DeltaV Hands-on technical experience with providing support for automated manufacturing operations, specifically DeltaV Demonstrated knowledge of bus technologies and Instrumentation Demonstrated knowledge of validation requirements for control systems in CGMP and/or ASTM environments Experience with multiple computerized systems (Ignition, Werum PAS-X, PI, etc.) Experience with SCADA/PLC systems such as Rockwell Factory Talk/RSLogix, Honeywell Understanding of network infrastructure Experience with systems/network/validation, preferable in the chem