Senior Automation Engineer

The Impact You Will Make

The mission of Automation is to provide highly effective automated manufacturing workflow solutions, information collection systems, and reporting solutions for the St. Louis facilities.

• Provide technical expertise required to achieve and sustain optimum reliability, maintainability, useful life, and life cycle cost for all facilities, manufacturing, utilities, and process systems/assets.
• Develop, refine, and perform backup, restore, and disaster recovery for automation/vision engineering solutions.
• Provide automation/vision troubleshooting expertise/guidance for corrective maintenance activities.
• Ensure project engineering and qualification strategies/programs are aligned with supporting site's overall Asset Improvement strategies for supporting the customer base.

Role Responsibilities

• Perform equipment evaluations and troubleshoot where necessary. Troubleshooting may require both mechanical and automated system evaluations.
• Monitor equipment systems for reliability, maintenance history, downtime factors, efficiency, reject rates, and other elements affecting overall up-time and quality output.
• Perform periodic software system backups, security (password) updates, PLC code comparisons, vision job file backups, and maintain the Automation Archives.
• Prioritize activities based on the criticality of systems to ensure quality and regulatory compliance.
• Act as Automation's single point of contact for their assigned area of responsibility. Provides technical leadership and guidance to site operating groups through investigations, equipment assessments, generation of user requirements, design support and troubleshooting activities.
• Collaborate with managers within Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, and Quality to ensure the mission objectives, and strategies are executed consistently and to the fullest extent to support the site as intended and outlined in service level agreements with the various customer groups.
• Initiate and lead projects to make improvements to vision/automation systems via Quality Change Control process.
• Support capital projects and lead Automation aspects of those projects as required.
• Generate or modify standard operating procedures, risk assessments, forms, templates, and logs as required.
• Serve as System Administrator for all manufacturing, inspection, packaging, environmental monitoring, laboratory, and support systems where Automation group has the primary support role. Maintain list of active users, add new approved users, deactivate terminated users, and reset passwords when necessary.

Basic Qualifications

• Associate's degree or Higher; Preferred Bachelor of Science degree in a technical field, Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical or Computer Engineering; OR 2+ years in industrial automation software, robotics, or machine vision controls.
• Experience in an FDA regulated industry (e.g. Pharmaceuticals, Medical Device).
• Preferred 2 or more years industrial automation/machine vision controls experience; should have detailed knowledge of programming of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs), machine vision systems, and/or Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems.