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Job Description
Process Automation Engineer required to work as a member of the Process Automation Department at Eli Lilly, Limerick, providing automation support for operating areas and capital projects.
At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism.
Main Purpose and Objectives:
- Provide automation support for one or more operating areas across site and/or for capital projects.
- Provide Automation, Process Controls and Data Analysis expertise and support for one or more operating areas across site and/or for capital projects.
Personal Considerations:
- The job may involve contact out of hours to provide technical assistance.
- Non-scheduled call-in time to respond to plant emergencies and occasional scheduled call-in time to provide technical cover during technical transfers and major project activity.
- Offsite travel, either within Ireland or abroad may occasionally be required for short durations to attend meetings, visit vendor's facilities or to receive training.
Educational Requirements:
- Degree in Chemical Engineering, Applied Physics and Instrumentation, Electrical or Electronic Engineering or qualifications in other relevant engineering discipline with appropriate experience.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide day-to-day operation's support related to the site control systems.
- Develop and possess a deep understanding of the process design for their specific process area.
- Project activities include:
- Participate in early project initiation activities to scope and assess automation aspect.
- Technically lead and manage work performed by System Integrators.
- Lead/Participate in design reviews and Delta V application software reviews.
- Attend equipment and software FATs.
- Lead a team of automation engineers supporting commissioning.
- Provide periodic status updates to Management.
- Devising functional requirements and process control strategies for control systems in collaboration with Process Engineering.
- DCS software design, coding/configuration and testing.
- Project Management of automation projects.
- Process Control Engineering including design, tuning and troubleshooting of control loops.
- Implementing and supporting electronic systems used to capture process automation related production data.
- Maintain the validated state of the site control systems in line with Lilly quality standards.
Role Requirements:
- 5 years working experience in Biopharma engineering, operations, or manufacturing.
- Demonstrated ability to participate in and facilitate decision-making.
- Demonstrated initiative, good planning and organisational skills, ability to prioritise tasks, commitment to task completion and timelines.
- Possess a keen technical curiosity and has demonstrated strong problem-solving skills and a desire for continuous improvement.
- Strong collaborative skills with an ability to work effectively in a team environment.
- Demonstrated ability to influence peers and business partners.
- Demonstrated strong written and verbal communications skills.
- Good written and verbal communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Knowledge of GMP, regulatory requirements, computer system validation.