Senior Automation Engineer

Our Work Matters

At Kindeva we make products that save lives, ensuring better health and well-being for patients around the world.

The Impact You Will Make

The mission of Automation is to provide highly effective automation, manufacturing workflow solutions, and information collection and reporting for the St. Louis facilities. Our Bridgeton site is a state of the art facility. This individual will provide automation troubleshooting expertise/guidance for corrective maintenance activities.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Perform equipment evaluations and troubleshoot where necessary.  Troubleshooting may require both mechanical and automated system evaluations.
• Monitors equipment systems for reliability, maintenance history, downtime factors, efficiency, and other elements affecting overall up-time and quality output.
• Performs periodic software system backups, security (password) updates, PLC code comparisons, and maintains the Automation Archives.
• Prioritizes activities based on the criticality of systems to ensure quality and regulatory compliance.
• Acts 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, Maintenance, and Utilities Group to ensure the mission objectives, and strategies are fully executed consistently and to support the site as intended and outlined in service level agreements with the varies customer groups. 
• Initiates capital projects and leads those projects as required.
• Generates or modifies standard operating procedures, risk assessments, forms, templates, and logs as required.
• Serves as System Administrator for all manufacturing, inspection, packaging, laboratory, and support systems where Automation group has the primary support role.  Maintain list of active users, adds new approved users, removes terminated users, and resets passwords when necessary.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimal of an Associate’s degree in a technical field such as Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical or Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science degree preferred; or minimal of 12 years’ experience in industrial automation & controls, pharmaceutical or manufacturing experience preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a regulated industry (e.g. Pharmaceuticals, Medical Device); minimum of 2 years industrial automation controls experience is preferred; should
• Extensive knowledge of programming of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs) and /or Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)systems.

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