Senior Automation Engineer II

About the role

At Kindeva we make products that save lives, ensuring better health and well‑being for patients around the world. The mission of the Automation team is to provide highly effective automated manufacturing workflow solutions, information collection systems, and reporting solutions for the St. Louis facilities.

This role provides 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. It also develops, refines, and performs backup, restore, and disaster recovery for automation/vision engineering solutions and offers troubleshooting expertise for corrective maintenance activities.

Responsibilities

• Perform equipment evaluations and troubleshoot where necessary, including both mechanical and automated system assessments.
• 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 the assigned area, providing technical leadership and guidance through investigations, equipment assessments, user‑requirement generation, design support, and troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with managers in Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, and Quality to execute mission objectives and service‑level agreements consistently.
• Initiate and lead projects to improve vision/automation systems via the 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 needed.
• Serve as System Administrator for manufacturing, inspection, packaging, environmental monitoring, laboratory, and support systems where Automation has primary responsibility; maintain user lists, add approved users, deactivate terminated users, and reset passwords.

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree or higher; Bachelor of Science in a technical field (Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical, or Computer Engineering) is preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in industrial automation software, robotics, or machine‑vision controls.
• Experience in an FDA‑regulated industry (e.g., pharmaceuticals, medical devices).
• Detailed knowledge of programming PLCs, HMIs, machine‑vision systems, and/or SCADA systems.