Principal Engineer - Automation

About the role

The Principal Engineer - Automation is responsible for leading complex projects within the engineering specialty, ensuring compliance with policies and procedures, and managing multiple projects simultaneously. They are expected to apply advanced scientific and engineering knowledge to design, implement, and manage projects that meet business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Ensures quality and effectiveness of major projects through sound design, risk assessments, and fallback strategies.
• Identifies, plans, and conducts medium- to large-size projects requiring custom, risk-managed execution plans, investigations, and/or equipment.
• Maintains project controls and reporting for cost, scope, and schedule; develops execution strategy including procurement; balances multiple demands.
• Works with marketing, product development, and manufacturing to establish scope, priorities, and schedules on multiple projects.
• Analyzes business forces in major markets to identify trends and recommend responses; independently executes and/or directs others in the execution of product/process/equipment/systems/facilities design.
• Designs and leads complex experiments, gathers data, and performs detailed analysis; assesses relevance; conceptualizes complete solutions; creates or coordinates the design solutions for novel or complex problems; integrates regulatory and operational needs; assesses cost benefit; explores multiple alternatives; structures studies and integrates cross-disciplinary and cross-functional issues to arrive at optimal cause of action.
• Applies technology in innovative ways; combines technologies to anticipate or address customer needs; shares solutions across sites; employs proven solutions to increase effectiveness of engineering methodology or manufacturing process.
• Provides tasks/project assignment opportunities for employee development and evaluates performance; represents the organization as the prime technical contact on contracts and projects.
• Interacts with both senior management and external personnel on significant technical matters often requiring coordination between organizations; submits articles for internal or external publication; acts as a trusted advisor; balances bottom line objectives of a project with long-term interest of customer; is identified as a Subject Matter Expert in the discipline; participates in internal teams to develop and align procedures and standards.

Requirements

• A Bachelors Degree in Engineering, science, or closely related discipline is desired, or equivalent technical experience plus demonstrated competence, with a desired 8+ years of significant engineering and/or operational experience.
• Demonstrated competency within a discipline.
• A career history marked by a consistent series of technical contributions and accomplishments.
• Possesses a strong technical knowledge and application of concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Works on problems of complex scope where analysis of situations or data involves multiple competing factors.
• Interacts well with diverse groups within engineering and maintains strong working relationships with internal and external collaborators.

Qualifications

• Has a technical background in health care, medical devices, pharmaceutical, biologics, or similar industries (preferred).
• Has demonstrated competency with financial systems and in fiscal control.

Skills

• Advanced scientific and engineering knowledge.
• Ability to apply novel engineering theories, concepts, and techniques within the disciplines.
• Experience in designing and leading complex experiments.
• Ability to analyze business forces and identify trends.
• Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills.

Benefits

• Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick)
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Long-term incentive programs

Pay

$109,500 - $208,500 USD

Schedule

Hybrid