OT Systems Engineer

Why Join Us?

A career at embecta means being part of a team that values your opinions and contributions and that empowers you to bring your authentic self to work. Here our employees can fulfill their life’s purpose through the work that they do every day. You will learn and work alongside inspirational leaders and colleagues who are equally passionate and committed to fostering an inclusive, growth-centered, and rewarding culture.

Essential Functions

• Maintain the Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) data transactions between the manufacturing devices, Factory Talk Transaction Manager (FTTM) and IT enterprise systems such as MEST, Apriso, Oracle and SAP.
• Set up data transactions such as downtime, process parameters and input/output/scrap counts.
• Work with the IT Security Team standards and practices such as Asset Management, access control, physical security, network security, third party security and disaster recovery.
• Manage and coordinate 1000-1200 device asset inventory on an annual basis.
• Work with the network security team to help protect site operations from cyber threats on OT devices.
• Coordinate the development of new processes by interfacing with personnel from R&D, technology, product design, product development, quality and manufacturing.
• Coordinate and carry out qualification and validation activities for new products, processes, changes and transfers as required.
• Assign projects and their status with the appropriate personnel and departments.

Additional Responsibilities

• Performs other duties as assigned by the Team Leader and required to support the needs of the business.

Position Requirements

• Education: Required – Two (2) year degree in engineering or applied technical sciences. Preferred – Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent degree.
• Experience: Required - 4+ years’ automation experience using Rockwell Automation. Preferred: Strong background in machine integration using various methods of networking. Proficiency in writing large complex PLC programs and versed in programming various operator interfaces. Network and setup communications on motion control systems. Industrial networking and connectivity to PLCs for data acquisition, VLANs, Firewalls. Design and implement data collection programming on Vision Inspection systems. Design, program and implement a project from start to finish.
• Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: Excellent PC skills to interface with various control systems. Good written and verbal communication skills. Additional programming skills in Apriso, Process Builder, SWL, JavaScript, HTML & XML an asset. Draw diagrams and schematics using AutoCAD Electrical. Troubleshooting skills using various test instruments. Multi-tasking on multiple or large projects.