Automation Engineer III

About the role

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll 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.

Responsibilities

• Manage process improvement projects
• Provide technical automation systems expertise for new product introductions
• Implement industrial controls and automation systems solutions
• Optimize existing automated processes while ensuring consistent product quality and regulatory compliance
• Drive cost reductions, improve efficiency, and enhance manufacturing capabilities across our operations
• Design, configure, and troubleshoot industrial I/O systems, including sensors, actuators, and field instrumentation

Requirements

• Troubleshooting & Support: Provide rotating on-call (24/7) technical support, troubleshooting, and optimization for manufacturing systems, including but not limited to; Allen-Bradley (Rockwell) family products, Emerson DeltaV, WonderWare, Honeywell, current DCS, and data historians.
• System Design & Implementation: Contribute to automation and control system design; oversee contractors during implementation, commissioning, and validation of systems (e.g., D3 DCS, Siemens, Allen-Bradley) for both production and utility systems.
• Documentation: Develop, review, and maintain documentation including, but not limited to functional design specifications (FDS), software design documentation, and validation protocols.
• Compliance & Validation: Ensure all systems comply with cGMP, GAMP 5, and FDA regulatory requirements.
• Project Execution: Partner with cross-functional teams (Process Engineering, Operations, Validation, Quality, IT) to execute automation projects, manage vendors, and support system upgrades and lifecycle management.
• Supervision: Leads multidisciplinary project teams and manages third-party contractors and engineering service providers as required. Supervisory responsibilities and mentorship of less-experienced engineers may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field required.
• Advanced degree required.
• At least 5 years of experience in manufacturing engineering within regulated industries (pharmaceutical, medical device, or similar) required.
• Hands-on experience with some of a broad range of Allen-Bradley PLCs and PanelView display products is preferred.
• Experience with data historian program development, configuration, and maintenance with at least one of the following historians is required: OSI (AVEVA) PI, Rockwell FTHistorian, DeltaV continuous historian.
• Experience developing and supporting either Rockwell PlantPAx or Emerson DeltaV as a commercial Distributed Control System including is required.
• Experience with virtual machine environment and hypervisor software is preferred.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics and technical drawings with working knowledge of basic electrical circuits as related to I/O specification, selection and configuration is required.
• Exhibited knowledge of S88 batch control and configuration is required.
• Exhibited knowledge of batch reporting.
• Working knowledge of database structure including SQL Server, with experience in data queries, support, and basic database management.
• Working knowledge of IT/OT networking including managed switch, VLAN and firewall configuration and management.
• Strong knowledge of GMP and life sciences regulatory requirements.
• Proficiency in PLC programming, HMI/SCADA systems, DCS platforms, and industrial networking.

Pay

Competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits.

Schedule

Standard 8-5, M – F fully onsite