Senior Automation Engineer (Platform Owner)

Your Role

CSL are hiring a Senior Automation Engineer (internally referred to as the Senior Value Stream Platform Owner) to manage the technical installation & setup, account administration, maintenance, reliability, performance, and compliance of Core System platforms (PCS, MES, PLC, etc.) and associated interfaces.

You will drive technical alignment between the different GxP control system platforms. This will include windows server administration, system virtualization support, Hotfix, KBA, and patch deployment for all locally hosted platforms, i.e. Siemens PCS7 / Siemens Opt-Center / Werum / JAG.

Multiple roles available, offered as an initial 18 month Contract.

Your Responsibilities

Reporting to the Base Fractionation Execution Systems Lead APAC you will:

• Be accountable for managing the lifecycle of PCS-MES systems & operations
• Be accountable for system ownership and compliance of PCS-MES Systems
• Participate in defining the strategy aligned with the standardized ES approach & create the roadmap for the design and implementation of the PCS-MES systems.
• Provide oversight & review of contractors/integrators work during design, construction, commissioning, and validation phases of projects & OPEX initiatives & changes
• System administration for local platforms and systems including development, validation, simulation and production systems
• Participate in the adherence to the CSV strategy and be responsible for investigations and CAPAs associated with the core systems
• Interface with platform vendor and manage the relationship for roadmap and training

• Bachelor of Science in an Engineering or other Science discipline/Masters preferred, Computer Science, or Management Information Systems.
• At least 5+ years' experience in Manufacturing, Engineering or Execution Systems/Automation
• Specific experience in process automation, MES and batch manufacturing industry standards (ISA S88 &S95)
• Direct experience designing, building, deploying and supporting automation and execution systems in a regulated large-scale process-based manufacturing environment
• Must have strong working knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server Administration; Server Virtualisation; Microsoft IIS troubleshooting; Dell Poweredge server hardware; System Networking including DNS, SMTP, NTP, vLAN, Network Switches / Routers, and Firewalls