What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Director, Automation Projects Lead position at Bristol-Myers Squibb?
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Challenging. Meaningful. Life-changing. Those aren't words that are usually associated with a job. But working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department. From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. You'll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams. Take your career farther than you thought possible.
Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives. Read more: careers.bms.com/working-with-us .
Summary:
The Associate Director, Automation Projects Lead - Cell Therapy (CT) Manufacturing Systems, will oversee a team of IT professionals, including direct reports, indirect reports, and contractors, to identify, develop, and deliver innovative and reliable digital solutions that address the future needs of the Devens Cell Therapy facility. This individual will collaborate closely with site operational functions to maximize the value of the automated CT platform, thereby enhancing patient access to Cell Therapy treatments.
Reporting to the Director of Business Insights & Technology (BI&T) for the Devens Cell Therapy Facility, this role will be responsible for setting the strategic direction of IT systems for the automated manufacturing platform, ensuring quality, and promoting the efficiency and sustainability of digital solutions implemented at the Devens CTF.
Responsibilities & Duties:
Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as Transforming patients' lives through science™ , every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in a supportive culture, promoting global participation in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.
On-site Protocol
BMS has an occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:
Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.
BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to adastaffingsupport@bms.com . Visit careers.bms.com/ eeo -accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.
BMS cares about your well-being and the well-being of our staff, customers, patients, and communities. As a result, the Company strongly recommends that all employees be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and keep up to date with Covid-19 boosters.
BMS will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area.
If you live in or expect to work from Los Angeles County if hired for this position, please visit this page for important additional information: https://careers.bms.com/california-residents/
Any data processed in connection with role applications will be treated in accordance with applicable data privacy policies and regulations.
Challenging. Meaningful. Life-changing. Those aren't words that are usually associated with a job. But working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department. From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. You'll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams. Take your career farther than you thought possible.
Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives. Read more: careers.bms.com/working-with-us .
Summary:
The Associate Director, Automation Projects Lead - Cell Therapy (CT) Manufacturing Systems, will oversee a team of IT professionals, including direct reports, indirect reports, and contractors, to identify, develop, and deliver innovative and reliable digital solutions that address the future needs of the Devens Cell Therapy facility. This individual will collaborate closely with site operational functions to maximize the value of the automated CT platform, thereby enhancing patient access to Cell Therapy treatments.
Reporting to the Director of Business Insights & Technology (BI&T) for the Devens Cell Therapy Facility, this role will be responsible for setting the strategic direction of IT systems for the automated manufacturing platform, ensuring quality, and promoting the efficiency and sustainability of digital solutions implemented at the Devens CTF.
Responsibilities & Duties:
- Serve as the primary Digital Plant point of contact for the Devens Cell Therapy Facility's automated platform, including Automation Systems (Process and Lab IT automation), data collection (Aveva PI), and analytics deliverables.
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Collaborate with Devens CTF Operations colleagues (Manufacturing, MS&T, QC, Quality, Site Engineering), Enterprise teams (Global MS&T, Enterprise MES), the Enterprise Business team, and local system Digital Capability Managers to meet the following requirements:
- Deliver the requirements for the Process Automation Systems (DeltaV) infrastructure and unit operations within the process automation system.
- Address integration needs with the Manufacturing Execution System (Syncade), Scheduler and Data Historian (Aveva PI).
- Develop and integrate the Lab IT data pipeline with MES, LIMS, ELN, and QC automation hardware.
- Identify and create strategies to operationalize breakthrough digital solutions, such as Artificial Intelligence, advanced image processing, and machine learning, to ensure the automated platform remains competitive in the future.
- Help set the priorities for PAS and Lab IT at Devens CTF and coordinate their deliveries.
- Lead technical teams to develop requirements, code, test deliverables, and drive system testing execution at the site level.
- Network and collaborate with other cell therapy PAS and Lab IT leads to proactively identify and resolve issues related to cell therapy requirements.
- Work with enterprise PAS and Lab IT teams and SMEs to develop standards, philosophies, design approaches, and SOPs for the Devens CTF automated platform.
- Collaborate with site teams and the business to develop a Business Continuity Plan for Devens CTF PAS and Lab IT applications related to the automated platform.
- Drive and support the resolution of critical PAS and Lab IT issues.
- Provide IT leadership for site inspection readiness from a PAS/Lab IT perspective.
- Coach and mentor PAS and Lab IT engineers on CTF automated platform requirements and deliverables.
- Demonstrated expertise in Process Automation Systems, specifically DeltaV, and data collection (i.e. Aveva PI).
- Demonstrated expertise in MES platforms.
- Expert understanding of S88, S95 and batch processing operations required.
- Knowledge of Laboratory IT systems (e.g., LIMS) and automation scheduling software (e.g., Cellario, SmartQC) preferred.
- Understanding of engineering documentation such as P&IDs, process flow diagrams and standard operating procedures.
- Ability to troubleshoot control systems from the field element up through operator interfaces and databases.
- Experience with control system networking technologies, PC networking technology and virtualization required.
- Experience working with SQL, SAP, or other relational databases preferred but not required.
- Experience managing schedule and resources on large projects.
- Demonstrated ability of coaching junior team members on technical perspective.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, IT, Science field or equivalent experience.
- Must have experience with Emerson DeltaV and knowledge of MES.
- Minimum 10 year's relevant industry experience.
- Prior Biologics/Cell Therapy experience is highly valued but not required.
- Understanding of supply chain, manufacturing domains and supporting technology including manufacturing and supply chain ERP systems (e.g. Oracle, SAP).
- Working knowledge of regulatory requirements and how they relate to existing and new business systems and practices, primarily GxP.
Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as Transforming patients' lives through science™ , every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in a supportive culture, promoting global participation in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.
On-site Protocol
BMS has an occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:
Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.
BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to adastaffingsupport@bms.com . Visit careers.bms.com/ eeo -accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.
BMS cares about your well-being and the well-being of our staff, customers, patients, and communities. As a result, the Company strongly recommends that all employees be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and keep up to date with Covid-19 boosters.
BMS will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area.
If you live in or expect to work from Los Angeles County if hired for this position, please visit this page for important additional information: https://careers.bms.com/california-residents/
Any data processed in connection with role applications will be treated in accordance with applicable data privacy policies and regulations.
