Engineer II, Manufacturing Engineering

Job Description

Job Title:  Engineer II, Automation Engineering

Hours: 8am-5pm with off-hour support required on a rotating 3-week on-call schedule.

Company Information

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you will discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer! We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Incredible Benefits!

Medical, Dental, and Vision – effective day 1

Paid time off and holidays

401k company match up to 6%

Tuition Reimbursement – available after 90 days

Employee referral bonus

Employee discount program

Employee recognition program

Charitable gift matching

Company paid parental leave

Career advancement opportunities  

Business Information

The Greenville, North Carolina, USA site is a large, multipurpose pharmaceutical development, manufacturing, and packaging campus. The operation provides both development and commercial services for sterile injectables and oral solid dose forms.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide system design requirements, in support of automation projects, to meet user specifications, along with GMP and data integrity standards.
• Create user documentation and procedures for new systems, commissioning and start-up.
• Support the startup of new automation systems by ensuring code and configurations meet specifications and validation requirements.
• Provide twenty-four hour guidance and support in diagnosing and resolving difficult automation hardware, software, instrument, and process problems to maintain system readiness. Frequently, this effort requires collaboration with other site maintenance teams. Communicate issue resolution summary to impacted area supervision.
• Build, or coordinate creation of, complete and detailed specifications and related documentation is provided that clearly defines user needs and system functionality for new automation systems or modifications to existing systems.
• Retrieve supporting data from automation systems to support production or quality department requests.

Qualifications:

• High School or Diploma or GED is required.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, or related field is preferred. Five years of applicable experience as described below may be considered for equivalency to education.
• Minimum of one year of meaningful work experience in pharmaceutical automation or controls systems automation.
• PLC automation control system start-ups, loop tuning, and control system modifications.
• Development of process control systems or equipment control applications using PLC ladder and function block logic. Allen-Bradley PLC or B&R PLC experience is helpful.
• Development, support and troubleshooting of Rockwell FactoryTalk SCADA systems including FactoryTalk Historian.
• OPC communication software and configuration
• Basic troubleshooting of electrical/electronic control systems, read and interpret electrical schematics.
• Knowledge of configuring/fixing servo systems and VFDs, HVAC, Hydraulic, Pneumatic.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, able to multi-task and get results.
• Effective time management and prioritization skills. Highly effective verbal and written communication skills and social skills to establish and maintain effective collaborations with site teams.

As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, tackle complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need! #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.