Manufacturing Process Engineer
About the role
Primary Talent Partners has a new contract opening for a Manufacturing Process Engineer to join our pharmaceutical client in Elkton, VA. This is an 11-month contract to start with the potential for extensions. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must be able to sit on Primary Talent Partners W2 without sponsorship.
The Sprint Operations SME will provide dedicated shop-floor, process operations, and recipe expertise to the Sprint team during the DeltaV software development, testing, and commissioning phases. Working within an Agile/Sprint team structure, this role bridges the gap between software development and daily manufacturing reality. The successful candidate will ensure that the new Emerson DeltaV automation solution being installed as part of the Fastnet project accurately reflects current and future manufacturing requirements, supports safe and compliant operations, and enables a robust, seamless facility start up.
Responsibilities
- Agile Sprint Team Integration & Collaboration
- Active Sprint Participation: Serve as the core Operations representative within DeltaV software development sprint teams, participating in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and sprint demonstrations.
- Operational Feedback: Provide immediate, practical feedback on process operations, equipment utilization, operator workflows, and physical facility constraints to the development team.
- Peer Communication: Act as the primary liaison between the automation development team and the wider Fastnet Operations team translating technical progress and gathering feedback as required.
- Operational Translation & Requirement Definition
- Legacy-to-DeltaV Translation: Translate existing Client DCS functionality, operating practices, and tacit operational knowledge into clear, actionable requirements for DeltaV functional design, configuration, graphics, and equipment modules.
- Recipe & Batch Sheet Interpretation: Utilize deep manufacturing and recipe knowledge to interpret batch sheets/EBRs and operational needs, converting them into optimized DeltaV phases, recipes, control modules, and sequential operations.
- Graphics Input: Inform the design of intuitive operator interfaces, control graphics, and navigation paths to ensure ease of use, minimize human error, and streamline physical operator workflows.
- Design Review, Testing, and Commissioning Support
- Document Review & Approval: Review and approve Functional Design Specifications (FDS), Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), design documents, test scripts, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to ensure operational accuracy.
- Testing Execution Support: Support software design reviews, sprint demonstrations, internal design reviews, Software Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), Developer System Acceptance Testing (DSAT), commissioning, Sequence of Operation testing, and integrated system testing.
- Risk & Gap Identification: Proactively identify functional gaps, overlooked operational elements, safety risks, or unintended procedural consequences in the proposed DeltaV design, collaborating with DMO, DMMD, CDS, CQV, Quality, Engineering, and vendor partners to resolve them.
- Operational & Safety Philosophy Input
- Access & Intervention: Provide operator-centric input on operator access philosophy, manual intervention requirements, and abnormal situation handling.
- Alarm & Interlock Management: Inform alarm response requirements, interlock philosophy, and equipment module operating parameters to ensure a safe, high-performing operating window.
- Safety Reviews: Participate actively in Process Hazard Analyses (PHA), Layers of Protection Analyses (LOPA), CHAZOPs, design safety reviews, 3D model reviews and final system handovers.
Requirements
- Operational Expertise: Significant hands-on