Principal Engineer / Automation Engineer (Fully Onsite Job in Thousand Oaks, CA)

Location: Thousand Oaks, CA

Terms: Contract W2

Duration : 36 Months Contract (Will Get Extended for Long)

Two openings

Skillsets:

Life science/Biotech/Pharma Industry experience

Rockwell Automation Experience

GMP Manufacturing facility experience

Day to Day Responsibilities:

Provide Day to day support for B23 Drug substance manufacturing facility

Develop and support process control applications via Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Human Machine Interfaces (HMI), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems (SCADA), and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC).

• Collaborate with scientific and operational staff to help translate process requirements into automation and engineering design.

• Participate and lead in technical root cause analysis, incident investigations, and troubleshooting on process control issues related to instrumentation and control systems.

• Design and test of automated process equipment. Support new product and technology introductions by performing engineering assessments, implementing automation system configuration changes, and supporting engineering runs.

• Support and lead capital projects by applying advanced automation engineering principles in the design, specification, configuration, startup, and commissioning of process equipment and systems for capital projects of significant scope and complexity. Demonstrated understanding of project life cycles is preferred. Candidate should be familiar with engineering processes from initial conceptualization through project turnover to operations.

• Development of detailed specification, engineering documents, SOPs, and operating standards.

• Expertise with industry standards of batch control systems, software development life cycle methodologies, 21 CFR Part 11, and GAMP.