Category: Engineer

Employment Type: Contract

Reference: BH-372468

We have a contract opportunity for a Part Time Automation Engineer in Athens GA. This position is approved until the end of the year and could be extended. The client is a world class manufacturer of life saving vaccines.
Pay Rate:$91.00/Hr.
Schedule: 3 plus days per week
Summary:
Responsibility of providing advanced design, troubleshooting support and advancement of site automation technologies including production equipment and building automation. This position will provide design, programming and troubleshooting support of automated controls to plant services department for plant engineering, construction and maintenance work. Manage capital and expense projects and implement modifications to existing systems.
Job Description:

• Manage capital & expense projects ensuring sustainable growth of site automation technologies.

• Maintain building automation system including lifecycle management, modification and troubleshooting in compliance with SOPs and current industry standards.
• Research and evaluate potential automation projects to determine feasibility. Provide data and proposals to management to guide site investment strategy.
• Develop and implement automation improvement initiatives.
• Act as automation and controls subject matter expert on large capital projects.
• Support day to day site automation and controls needs, minimizing production loss. Produce and implement CAPA plans to prevent future occurrences. Lead root cause analysis initiatives as related to automation topics Research new technologies, and gain competency.
• Requires multitasking and frequent assessment of priorities to ensure that production and project goals are achieved in a fast paced environment
• This position will interface with all internal functions, depending on project. Primarily, this position will interface with operations, maintenance and engineering, validation and IT.
• Interface with contractors specific to project or system needs.
• The responsibilities of this position are to interact with automation and to manage automation projects on a daily basis. Because of this, expertise with automation (PLCs, HMI/SCADAs, building automation and robotics) and project management tools is required

1. Knowledge of biopharmaceutical regulations and good manufacturing practices is preferred.
2. Low voltage controls (relays, safety circuits, drives, etc.) Devices and interface technologies (sensors, IO modules, fieldbus and networking) PLC programming including ladder, function block and structured text. RSLogix experience is preferred.
3. HMI/SCADA FactoryTalk View experience is preferred.
4. Mechanical design methods and techniques using 30 CAD SolidWorks experience is preferred.
5. Building automation systems. Siemens Insight or Desigo experience a plus.
6. Good project management and organizational skills.