Senior Automation Engineer

Overview

In this role, you will lead GMP-compliant control systems design, delivery, and validation to support biotech manufacturing processes. You will shape system architectures, standards, and traceability across projects within a regulated environment. You’ll drive automation improvements, coordinate commissioning and validation activities, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable manufacturing excellence. This is a chance to influence site-wide control system strategy in a fast-paced biotech setting.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive benefits
• ongoing professional development
• opportunity to work on complex, high-value capital projects

Responsibilities

• Lead design, delivery, and lifecycle management of GMP-compliant control systems (PLC, SCADA, and HMI)
• Define architectures and standards with traceability from requirements to deployment
• Oversee automation development, configuration, and software validation in regulated context
• Manage commissioning, qualification, validation, and system handovers; coordinate audits with regulators and vendors
• Lead automation improvement initiatives, support digital transformation strategies, and manage change control

Key requirements

• A degree or higher in engineering or a science discipline (e.g., Electrical, Mechanical, Automation Engineering)
• Proven experience in automation system design, validation, and lifecycle management in pharmaceutical, biotech, or similar regulated environments
• Extensive knowledge of PLC, SCADA (Siemens, Allen-Bradley), GMP, data integrity, and validation standards

• Cross-functional collaboration
• Leadership and project management
• Strong communication and regulatory liaison
• PLC
• SCADA
• HMI

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