Automation Area Lead Eng

Qualifications

• Deep expertise/hands‑on experience in Delta
  
  V design, implementation, and testing.
• Automation experience in the pharmaceutical/life science industry, with a preference for API/bulk manufacturing environments.
• Experience leading cross‑functional automation teams.

• Provide support or ownership of the technical scope for the assigned area of the automation project.
• Act as an automation representative in cross‑functional program leadership meetings, ensuring alignment between automation, process engineering, digital/MES, and quality teams.
• Serve as the key point of contact for client stakeholders and senior leadership regarding automation scope, progress, and risk mitigation of the assigned area.
• Collaborate with Program technical offices to ensure the automation solution is aligned with the overall program automation philosophy and standards.
• Provide technical support to the team working on the assigned area for the respective area/node and ensure that applicable standards are followed.
• Ensure consistency of the automation deliverables (requirements, functional specifications, control strategies, phases, and recipes, etc.).
• Participate in P& lead control strategy design.
• Lead in defining the software components that need to be created or modified.
• Communicate progress, issues, and needs to the automation project manager for the entire workstream/all areas of the project.
• Lead input, review, and approval of functional requirements and specifications.
• Lead design of Parameter and Recipe Specification philosophy.
• Respond to system integrator technical queries.
• Lead and collaborate on the development of software testing strategies.
• Identify any remediation effort required on process control software.
• Identify and analyze risks of technical nature particular to the area and plan responses.
• Maintain compliance with training requirements.
• Provide training and support to junior engineers and other team members.
• Champion the adoption of emerging technologies, tools, and methodologies that improve automation efficiency, reliability, and maintainability.