What are the responsibilities and job description for the Systems Engineer position at Lonza?
Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across five continents.
Our greatest scientific solution is dedicated people working together, devising ideas that help businesses to help people. In exchange, we let our people own their careers.
Their ideas, big and small, genuinely improve the world. And that's the kind of work we want to be part of.
The Systems Engineer will support ongoing Lonza operations through technical assistance as it relates to computerized systems infrastructure for process automation and QC laboratory systems.
This person provides a technical resource to operations customers to ensure that systems are designed and operating to meet production needs.
Key Responsibilities :
- Learns to recognize potential issues or technical problems and tackle these under guidance of supervisor.
- Assist with the planning and execution of plant projects involving computerized infrastructure changes and process improvements.
- Provide infrastructure support (servers, networks, workstations, storage, and client devices) for Automation, Business Analytics, Quality Control, and any other information systems used to support Operations.
- Maintain system integrity and identify performance and security improvements.
- Utilizes colleagues, system documentation, and support contracts to solve complex problems.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to provide after-hours support to resolve issues outside of normal business hours.
- Continuously aware of new methodologies pertinent to information systems and is able to introduce them with limited supervisory input.
- Contributes to design of new applications and solutions.
Own change requests and participate in all aspects of the change control system.
Key Requirements :
Bachelor's degree preferred, or significant related work experience accepted.
Preferred areas of study : Computer Science, Information Technology or an applicable Engineering field.
Experience developing technical documentation for networks and information systems
Experience with : servers, storage, network and related infrastructure fundamentals; operating systems; Windows and Linux; deployment applications; Symantec Ghost, Acronis; programming languages; VB Script, .Net, and SQL preferred; Cisco and 3Com network switching and network monitoring utilities; and / or with Citrix Metaframe or Microsoft Terminal Services.
Ability to think critically and logically.
Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite with focus on Outlook, Word, and Excel
We respect and protect our people and our environment.
We offer the satisfaction that comes with improving lives all around the world.
The satisfaction that comes with making a meaningful difference.
Lonza is an equal opportunity employer.
