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Senior Automation Engineer

Catalent is a global, high-growth, public company and a leading partner for the pharmaceutical industry in the development and manufacturing of new treatments for patients worldwide. Your talents, ideas, and passion are essential to our mission: to help people live better, healthier lives.

The Senior Automation Engineer will support the Drug Substance Cell Culture and Purification operations team as a system owner of various process and process support control systems. As a system owner, the Senior Automation Engineer’s primary duty is to effectively maintain reliable and qualified operation of various Distributed Control Systems, Programmable Automation Controllers, Human Machine Interfaces, and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems for both existing and new assets. Responsibilities include designing automation software and strategies based on the latest GAMP guidelines, developing software modules and graphical user interfaces in accordance with design requirements, troubleshooting, improving, and implementing automated control systems, compiling/maintaining automation requirements and design specifications, and interfacing with manufacturing and other end users of the system and implement necessary changes to improve system’s overall efficiency.

This is a fulltime role working days; Monday - Friday

Catalent is committed to a Patient First culture through excellence in quality and compliance, and to the safety of every patient, consumer and Catalent employee.

The Role

• Collaborate with and influence a cross-functional support team to deliver the safety, quality, and operational goals of the Drug Substance business unit as the control system owner

• Maintain the safe and qualified design and operation of the control systems

• Lead the monitoring, trending, and troubleshooting of routine and novel equipment and operational problems to minimize risks to personnel and product.

• Investigate and author deviations using formal root cause analysis techniques, their experience, and/or seeking recommendations from industry experts to prevent recurrence of equipment related deviations.

• Author and drive changes and improvement opportunities (SOP updates, modifications, etc.) through the change management system

• Identify and implement continuous improvements for equipment maintenance documents for planning and execution to improve safety, improve equipment performance, reduce cost, improve compliance, or reduce operational risks

• Lead and/or participate in design/user specification development, commissioning, P&ID/GA drawings, automation control strategies, and IQ/OQ/PQ activities of new equipment or changes to existing capabilities

• Develop operations and technical documents

• Directly interface with internal customers and operational team members including other engineering technicians, operators, and maintenance personnel

• Provide internal/external audit support

• Mentor other engineers and support staff

The Candidate

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical/Mechanical/Electrical Engineering or appropriate scientific discipline, required

• Master’s degree, preferred

• PE / Registered Engineer in training, preferred

• OSHA/IOSH/NeBOSH Certification or equivalent, preferred

• 5+ years Project Engineering relevant experience

• 2+ years in a regulated industry (Life Sciences, preferred)

• Must be able to read and understand English-written job instructions and safety requirements

Why You Should Join Catalent

• Diverse, inclusive culture

• Competitive salary

• 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match

• Educational assistance/reimbursement

• 19 days’ (152 hours) Paid time off

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Life insurance

• Flexible spending account

• Employee discount programs

• Robust Employee Referral Program

Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career! Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference.

Catalent is committed to the health and safety of its employees, visitors and the customers and patients we serve. As a result of the global pandemic, we have modified many of our recruitment and on-boarding processes to maintain everyone’s safety. The Human Resources teams will communicate all necessary safety processes and procedures throughout each stage.

personal initiative. dynamic pace. meaningful work.

Visit Catalent Careers (https://careers.catalent.com/us/en) to explore career opportunities.

Catalent is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veterans.

If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability, you may submit your request by sending an email, and confirming your request for an accommodation and include the job number, title and location to DisabilityAccommodations@catalent.com . This option is reserved for individuals who require accommodation due to a disability. Information received will be processed by a U.S. Catalent employee and then routed to a local recruiter who will provide assistance to ensure appropriate consideration in the application or hiring process.

Notice to Agency and Search Firm Representatives: Catalent Pharma Solutions (Catalent) is not accepting unsolicited resumes from agencies and/or search firms for this job posting. Resumes submitted to any Catalent employee by a third party agency and/or search firm without a valid written & signed search agreement, will become the sole property of Catalent. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral. Thank you.

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