IT User Support Associate - 2nd Shift
Amneal Pharmaceuticals · Piscataway, NJ · 1 wk ago
Information Technology$22–$32/hrFull-time
About the role
The IT User Support Associate (Manufacturing) provides on-site IT support for Amneal's manufacturing and laboratory operations, ensuring the smooth functioning of site infrastructure, lab systems, and production-related technologies in a cGMP-compliant environment. The ideal candidate will be proactive, service-oriented, and capable of working effectively within both IT and regulated operational contexts to support critical systems and ensure uninterrupted operations.
Responsibilities
- Support integration and lifecycle activities for plant applications, historians, SCADA/MES interfaces, edge devices, equipment data collection, and industrial networks.
- Assist with OT asset inventory, system health monitoring, patch coordination, backup verification, access reviews, incident troubleshooting, and disaster-recovery testing.
- Support the development and maintenance of secure data flows using appropriate industrial and enterprise protocols such as OPC UA, MQTT, REST APIs and database interfaces.
- Work with automation, engineering, manufacturing, laboratory, Quality, and IT teams to perform root cause analysis to assist in diagnosis of data, interface and application issues without disrupting validated operations.
- Acquire, clean, contextualize and analyze time-series, event, batch, equipment, maintenance, process and quality data from approved sources.
- Build prototypes for reproducible analytics and ML for use cases such as anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, process drift, cycle-time prediction, visual inspection and quality-event prioritization.
- Perform feature engineering, train/test separation, model selection, performance evaluation and error analysis using metrics appropriate to the operational decision.
- Deploy approved models or analytics through governed APIs, scheduled pipelines, dashboards, edge services or cloud platforms under guidance from department management, architecture, data and cybersecurity teams.
- Monitor data quality, model performance, drift, false-positive/false-negative behavior and business adoption; document limitations and escalation thresholds.
- Contribute to maintaining human review and decision controls for regulated or high-impact use cases; do not place experimental models directly into production control loops.
- Maintain technical specifications, diagrams, interface documentation, code repositories, test evidence, operating procedures and support knowledge articles.
- Follow applicable SDLC/CSV, change-control, cybersecurity, data-integrity, access-management and incident-management procedures.
- Participate in risk assessments, testing, traceability, release readiness, post-implementation verification and periodic review activities for GxP-relevant solutions.
- Deliver on assigned project work with clear estimates, status, risks and dependencies; coordinate effectively with vendors and site resources.
- Provide site-facing support and participate in an appropriate on-call rotation after training and qualification.
- Learns fundamental operations of commonly used software, hardware, and other equipment.
- Adheres to all confidentiality rules and policies.
- Follow all company and department policies and rules.
- Ensures that all problems are logged, resolved/assigned for resolution, prioritized and tracked, and communicated appropriately.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor's Degree (BA/BS) in Information Technology / Computer Science
- Preferred Experience: 1 year or more IT experience or knowledge required
- Specialized Knowledge:
- Expert knowledge of windows operating systems support and operations, Microsoft desktop applications, hardware, and peripherals.
- Basic understanding of industrial systems or protocols, such as PLC/SCADA concepts, historians, OPC UA, MQTT, industrial Ethernet or equipment-to-platform integration
- Familiarity with GMP systems, audit procedures, and IT quality documentation
- Strong understanding of Windows infrastructure and networking technologies
- Excellent understanding of both hardware and software systems
- Working knowledge of validated environments, or manufacturing software preferred
Benefits
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