Senior Controls Engineer
Hartley People
Waterford, Kilkenny, Wexford
We are currently looking for a Senior Controls Engineer. Position Summary : The Senior Controls Engineering role within the Engineering group is a highly technical role required to maintain, develop, debug, troubleshoot and validate systems in a GMP compliant manner. Engineering responsibilities include the design, development and implementation of integrated, automated manufacturing systems and control software applications. Project Management responsibilities include leading multi-disciplined, cross-functional teams to deliver stated project objectives within cost and time requirements. Principle Job Responsibilities/Outputs: Provide software support to the Manufacturing, Maintenance, and Equipment Design groups. Develop, implement and debug code with minimal impact to production operating under 24/7 environment. Improve and maintain machinery control, and supervisory/data acquisition and other automation platforms as required. Analyse, understand, and modify software programs written by other developers. Fault-find complex automation equipment. Investigate and implement automation improvements/upgrades. Identify and eliminate repetitious control system failures. Developing a detailed understanding of the vision systems and laser systems in the manufacturing process, and maintaining and troubleshooting software, hardware and yield issues. Equipment installation and validations including instrumentation. Develop methods to ensure personnel engaged in maintenance/controls activities have sufficient knowledge to perform their assigned tasks. Implement code changes on the automation systems under change control. Integrate machine control software with controllers, motion controllers, vision systems, and other instrumentation. Be familiar with all aspects of software validation and 21 CFR part 11 guidelines. Present, where appropriate, technical data to internal/external audit and inspection groups. Key cGMP Responsibilities: Ensure the companies safety, ethical & quality standards are adhered to at all times. Ensure all projects/ tasks are executed to all current policies and procedures. Supervisory Responsibilities: Provide technical leadership role model example to engineers in the Engineering group in the areas of technical expertise and specific project execution. Qualifications/ Training / Experience required: Education: Bachelor’s/ Master’s Degree in Electrical/ Electronic Engineering or Computer Science or other relevant technical equivalent. Experience: 4+ year’s experience of software development, integration, testing and validation; project management of automated high-volume low-cost manufacturing systems including PLC’s, motion control, robotics, HMI’s and SCADA. Experience with medical device and/or pharmaceutical production prefererd (cGMP / FDA regulated environment. Knowledge of software development life-cycle approaches, GAMP, 21 CFR Part 11, , machine vision fundamentals a plus. Specialized Training in the following areas would be advantageous: various PLC platforms including Allen Bradley, WonderWare, VB.Net Programming, C/C++, SQL, Oracle, network communications and architecture. Automatic measurement and reporting of OEE and related production data. Self-directed, excellent communication skills on technical subjects. For more information contact colin@hartleypeople.com 051 878813.
3289 days ago