Sr 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.

Role Responsibilities

• Perform equipment evaluations and troubleshoot where necessary.
• Troubleshooting may require both mechanical and automated system evaluations.
• Maintains equipment systems for reliability, maintenance history, downtime factors, efficiency, reject rates, and other elements affecting overall up-time and quality output.
• Performs periodic software system backups, security (password) updates, PLC code comparisons, vision job file backups, and maintains the Automation Archives.
• Prioritizes activities based on the criticality of systems to ensure quality and regulatory compliance.
• Provides technical leadership and guidance to site operating groups through investigations, equipment assessments, generation of user requirements, design support and troubleshooting activities.
• Collaborates 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.
• Initiates and leads projects to make improvements to vision/automation systems via Quality Change Control process.
• Serves 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, adds new approved users, deactivates terminated users, and resets 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.