Sr. Automation Engineer (Building Automation Systems)

Location: On site in New Albany, Ohio, United States; 24x7 onsite/on-call operational support is required.

Annual salary: $136,906.95–$185,227.05 USD.

Company

Biotechnology organization developing, manufacturing, and delivering medicines for serious illnesses across oncology, inflammation, general medicine, and rare disease.

What you will do

• Provide maintenance leadership and technical expertise for facility infrastructure, equipment, utility systems, production suites, building automation, and automated warehouse systems in GMP assembly, packaging, and warehouse operations.
• Determine automation system specifications and develop, maintain, and administer systems using Siemens and Allen Bradley PLCs, HMIs, and SCADA.
• Coordinate contractors, manage automation locations and assets in Maximo CMMS, and establish preventive and corrective maintenance using reliability engineering principles.
• Support 24x7 site operations through troubleshooting, operating-system assessments and rollouts, spare-parts management, and day-to-day engineering coordination.
• Lead or support root cause analyses, incident investigations, vendor collaboration, continuous improvement, data integrity assessments, SOPs, and maintenance job plans.
• Provide automation expertise for facility expansions, capital projects, process equipment and utility improvements, and collaboration across the plant network.

Requirements

• One of the following education and experience combinations is required: doctorate degree; or master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Chemical Engineering, Biotech, or a related technical subject area plus 2 years of automation experience; or bachelor’s degree in one of these areas plus 4 years of automation experience; or associate’s degree plus 8 years of automation experience; or high school diploma/GED plus 10 years of automation experience.
• Ability to follow safety and cGMP policies and procedures and support safe, reliable operations in a regulated manufacturing environment.
• Ability to provide technical troubleshooting, root cause analysis, incident investigation, and problem resolution for automation and process-control systems.
• Ability to work cross-functionally, deliver technical solutions, implement improvements, and work to tight deadlines in a fast-moving environment.
• Strong leadership, teamwork, technical report writing, communication, presentation, and data-driven decision-making skills.
• Sponsorship for this role is not guaranteed.

Nice to have

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Chemical Engineering, Biotech, or a related technical subject area.
• Extensive experience in automation programming, design, installation, lifecycle management, process-control engineering, GMP biopharmaceutical production equipment and systems, OEM automation software, and field instrumentation.
• Experience in an FDA GMP or comparable regulated environment, preferably pharmaceutical or biotechnology.
• Plant and applicable industry regulation knowledge; experience in high-volume manufacturing environments.
• Allen Bradley and Siemens SCADA and PLC platforms.
• Experience with RCM, TPM, or other reliability-centered concepts.
• Knowledge of project management cycles and project development and delivery support.
• Experience managing GMP facility cleaning and pest-control programs and integrated service providers.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, innovative, science-based, and interdependent working culture.
• Health, dental, vision, life, disability, and flexible spending benefits for eligible employees and dependents.
• Retirement and savings plan with company contributions, discretionary annual bonus, and stock-based long-term incentives.
• Award-winning time-off plans, work/life balance support, and career development opportunities.
• Flexible work models may be available where applicable, although this role is designated onsite.