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Automation Lead

2 weeks ago


Upper Hutt, New Zealand MSD Full time

Join a global organisation that prides itself on high integrity, ethics and compliance
- Opportunity to broaden your management and automation skills for supporting animal healthcare manufacturing sites within a global organisation
- Work collaboratively with the teams at the site shop floor to implement and maintain systems network and automation assets.
- Join a friendly team and be fully supported in your career. Excellent opportunities to learn and get growth opportunities.

Our Manufacturing Operations teams are the people that make our products. We work in the manufacturing plants with a “Safety First, Quality Always” mindset striving for continuous improvement. We work in the local plant connected to our global manufacturing network to ensure the highest quality of raw materials, intermediates and finished products.

Our Engineers support internal and external manufacturing operations remain operational, continuously improve and innovate. With our extensive range of facilities and environments, our Engineers have opportunities across many diverse areas including Biological, Chemical, Automation, Capital Projects, Maintenance, Safety, Process Development, Technical Services, Utilities and Validation

The Lead Automation Engineer will manage a small team of Automation Specialists and network system engineers that maintain existing automation infrastructure and investigate new technologies to ensure site infrastructure remains compliant to company and industry standards.

**What will you do**:
Lead and Develop with the team and document the key automation strategies, including Hardware, Software, Integration, Data Integrity, Obsolescence,

**Applications, Licensing & Governance**:

- Develop methods for clear communication, interaction and escalation between site automation and Global IT
- Responsible for the resource management of the automation team
- Allocating Automation resources to respective projects, tasks and track delivery
- Coordinate with Project managers / engineers for project schedule, task status, and resource usage
- Develop long term training strategy and plan for building up Automation skillsets on site.
- Hands on approach to solving and working with the team is essential to solving problems or developing new ideas/solutions
- Work Closely with Maintenance, Production and Quality teams to assist in developing means to improve production throughput and reduce nuisance alarms and reduce call outs
- Work with Site Project Manager to assist in developing costs associated with CapEx Projects be Automation SME
- Manage and maintain the site Shop Floor Network including data analytics
- Ensure that the engineering control systems are always compliant and audit ready
- The position is expected to work closely with IT colleagues to ensure effective integration of the IT and OT systems.

**Business Partnership**:

- Develop and maintain positive business relationships with internal manufacturing stakeholders and automation peers across the broader Global organization
- Partner closely with global IT to align on manufacturing supporting systems infrastructure (servers, networks, etc)
- Develop knowledge of manufacturing processes and methodologies so that automation can effectively support them
- Maintain awareness of external technology trends and identify opportunities where automation can support site goals and improve manufacturing and laboratory outputs

**Technical Delivery**
- Design, document and execute an automation asset life cycle strategy
- Provide process automation expertise in site projects
- Manage the relationship and work coordination of automation system vendors and contractors
- Investigate and implement data analytics for the SFN
- Support data historian implementation for regular reporting from the SFN

**Project Management**
- Effectively lead projects from concept to realization, building & motivating project teams
- Follow the project Roadmap to ensure projects are executed in a controlled and compliant manner
- Ensure that changes are properly documented through an approved change control

**Operational Responsibilities**
- Configure the SFN and associated switches
- Write software code for new equipment and process improvements
- Manage and Maintain Relevant Engineering Controlled Documents
- Assist in the preparation of process validation and qualification documents, execute testing and document results
- Model Safe by Choice and Inclusive behaviors, take responsibility for own and others’ safety
- Willingness to travel on a project-by-project basis

**What You Must Have**

**Education**:

- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent with relevant experience in Computer Science, Computer Science Engineering, Mathematics, Electrical/Automation Engineering.
OR
- Equivalent industry or trade experience in Pharmaceutical or related setting
- Project management experience on medium to large sized projects
- Experience implementing and supporting manufacturing automation sys