What are the responsibilities and job description for the Automation Area Lead Engineer (DeltaV) position at Smart IT Frame LLC?
Job Title: Automation Area Lead Engineer (DeltaV)
Location: Indianapolis, IN
Employment Type: Contract
About Smart IT Frame:
At Smart IT Frame, we connect top talent with leading organizations across the USA. With over a decade of staffing excellence, we specialize in IT, healthcare, and professional roles, empowering both clients and candidates to grow together.
Job description:
- Provide support or ownership of the technical scope for their 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 their 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 their area of the project 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&ID and lead control strategy design
- Lead in defining the software components that need to be created or modified
- Communicates progress, issues, and needs to automation project manager for the entire workstream/all areas of the project
- Lead input, review, and approve of functional requirements and specifications
- Lead design of Parameter and Recipe Specification philosophy
- Responding to system integrator technical queries
- Lead and collaborate on the development of software testing strategies
- Identification of any remediation effort required on process control software
- Identify and analyze risks of technical nature particular to the area and planning 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.
Top 3 must have’s:
- Deep expertise/hands-on experience in DeltaV design, implementation and testing experience.
- Automation experience in the pharmaceutical/life science industry, with a preference for API/bulk manufacturing environments.
- Experience leading cross-functional automation teams.
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