Senior Automation Systems Lead

Location: San Francisco, United States

Salary: $190,000–$215,000 annually

Company

hirify.global provides services to life sciences organizations to support the compliant development, manufacturing, and distribution of healthcare products.

What you will do

• Provide technical and operational leadership for GxP manufacturing automation, PCS, SCADA, historian, and OT infrastructure.
• Lead 24x7 support delivery, incident and escalation management, advanced troubleshooting, root cause investigations, and system-integration issue resolution.
• Support Rockwell PLCs, FactoryTalk View SE, FactoryTalk AssetCentre, Ignition SCADA, MQTT infrastructure, UNS architecture, and AVEVA PI Historian.
• Drive system reliability, preventive maintenance, lifecycle management, patching, modernization, obsolescence management, backup, recovery, and cybersecurity activities.
• Ensure change control, data integrity, audit trail, GxP, validation, quality, deviation, CAPA, and audit requirements are met.
• Coordinate Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Validation, IT/OT, vendors, contractors, and managed service teams while providing technical direction and knowledge transfer.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience supporting automation systems in GMP-regulated pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or life sciences manufacturing environments, including 5+ years leading automation support, engineering, or managed services teams.
• Experience supporting business-critical manufacturing automation systems in a 24x7 operational environment.
• Strong hands-on experience with Rockwell Automation technologies, including FactoryTalk View SE and Rockwell PLC platforms, preferably ControlLogix, plus FactoryTalk AssetCentre and automation asset-management practices.
• Strong experience supporting Ignition SCADA, with experience in MQTT-based architectures and Unified Namespace concepts.
• Strong knowledge of AVEVA PI System and historian technologies; system administration experience is preferred.
• Experience with Windows Server environments and OT networking fundamentals.
• Knowledge of automation backup, restoration, disaster recovery, patching, and lifecycle-management processes.
• Understanding of GMP documentation and change-control requirements, including GAMP 5, CSV/CSA, 21 CFR Part 11, EU Annex 11, and ALCOA+ data integrity principles.
• Experience with Change Control, CAPA, deviation management, validation lifecycle, audit activities, complex troubleshooting, structured root cause investigations, and cross-functional coordination.
• Strong technical leadership, communication, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.

Nice to have

• Rockwell Automation or Inductive Automation Ignition certification.
• AVEVA PI System administration experience.
• Experience with Veeva Vault, Kneat, or comparable electronic quality and validation systems.
• Experience supporting pilot-scale and commercial pharmaceutical or biotechnology manufacturing operations.
• Experience leading managed services transitions, support-model implementations, and knowledge-transfer programs.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with medical, dental, and vision coverage; PSC pays 100% of qualifying employee medical premiums and 50% for qualifying dependents.
• Employee assistance, basic life insurance, long-term disability, 401(k) matching, PTO, sick time, and paid holidays.
• Education assistance, pet insurance, fitness perks, and financial discounts.
• Multicultural environment with coaching, professional development, and collaboration across global offices.