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Position Summary
The Senior Automation Engineer I will be responsible for controls systems design, programming, simulation and testing, validation, troubleshooting, and project documentation. Equipment planned for automation control includes bioreactors and media processing system. Position will include participating in initial qualification activities (CSV, recipe qualification) and ongoing activities such as recipe revision, periodic review, validation, and integration with other GxP electronic systems. This position will also provide automation support to Bothell Manufacturing Operations as well as work with global teams to design automated solutions that improve processes and integrate new equipment. The Senior Automation Engineer I role will represent site automation in cross functional efforts and work collaboratively with system owners and quality groups.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as automation engineer in Emerson DeltaV platform for both established recipes and introduction of newly automated equipment.
- Design automation strategies in Emerson DeltaV by defining class-based modules, using sequence flow charts, phase logic modules, and creating process operator graphics.
- Collaborate with internal and global functions (Process Development, Computer System Validation, Quality) to translate requirements into automated solutions.
- Adhere to software development lifecycle (SDLC) practices and S88 automation standards.
- Author, review, and perform recipe validation.
- Maintain qualification/validation documentation (protocols, reports, schedule).
- Partner with key stakeholders to define system requirements and identify risk.
- Meet control strategies based on functional specifications, existing code, and operator input.
- Provide automation impact assessments for process and material changes.
- Provide installation and start up support for projects as needed. Start up support includes but not limited to installation consulting, loop check support, startup assistance, loop tuning, and configuration modifications.
- Represent automation programs during regulatory inspections.
- With IT, deliver integrated solutions across multiple platforms including DeltaV, Emerson Syncade, Informetric InfoBatch, data historian, and benchtop equipment.
- Implement and maintain risk assessments that ensure process controls address known risks.
- Provide training for system use, troubleshooting, and recipe maintenance to manufacturing and other groups.
- Interact with end users, IT, maintenance, and support groups while troubleshooting issues.
- Request quotes from vendors for approved equipment, software, and services.
- Identify and implement continuous improvement, efficiency, and system reliability projects.
Qualifications & Experience
Specific Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
- 4+ years relevant biopharmaceutical industry experience.
- 4+ years of automation/process control system experience is strongly preferred.
- Experience with Emerson DeltaV batch processing preferred.
- Experience with InfoBatch Electronic Reporting system preferred.
- Experience with Aveva PI Data Historian system preferred.
- Experience with cGMP/GMP, ICH guidelines, date integrity, computer system validation, safety principles, and working within a regulated industry.
Education/Experience/ Licenses/Certifications:
BS in engineering, computer science, biology, or equivalent scientific discipline.
The starting compensation for this job is a range from $92,000 to $121,000, plus incentive cash and stock opportunities (based on eligibility).
The starting pay rate takes into account characteristics of the job, such as required skills and where the job is performed.
Final, individual compensation will be decided based on demonstrated experience.
Eligibility for specific benefits listed on our careers site may vary based on the job and location. For more on benefits, please visit our BMS Careers Site.
Benefit offerings are subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect and may include the following: Medical, pharmacy, dental and vision care. Wellbeing support such as the BMS Living Life Better program and employee assistance programs (EAP). Financial well-being resources and a 401(K). Financial protection benefits such as short- and long-term disability, life insurance, supplemental health insurance, business travel protection and survivor support. Work-life programs include paid national holidays and optional holidays, Global Shutdown days between Christmas and New Year’s holiday, up to 120 hours of paid vacation, up to two (2) paid days to volunteer, sick time off, and summer hours flexibility. Parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military leave. Family care services such as adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, fertility/infertility benefits, support for traveling mothers, and child, elder and pet care resources. Other perks like tuition reimbursement and a recognition program.
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At Bristol Myers Squibb, we work every day to transform patients’ lives through science. That work inspires some of the most interesting, meaningful, and life-changing careers you’ll experience. Join us and pursue innovative ideas alongside some of the brightest minds in biopharma, collaborating with a team rich in diversity of experiences, and perspectives. We have built a sustainable pipeline of potential therapies and are leveraging translational medicine and data analytics to understand how we can deliver the right medicine to the right patient, at the right time, to achieve the best outcome.
Whether in a scientific, business or supporting function, a career at BMS means you’ll be inspired every day to grow and thrive through opportunities that are uncommon in scale and scope. Here, you’ll be on the cutting edge of powerful innovation in oncology, hematology, immunology, cardiovascular disease, and fibrosis, with colleagues united in the mission to help patients.
Through the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, we also promote health equity and seek to improve health outcomes of populations disproportionately affected by serious diseases and conditions. Our mission is to give new hope to help patients prevail over serious disease – it drives everything we do.
