What are the responsibilities and job description for the Automation Specialist position at SciPro?
Job Description
We are seeking a highly skilled Automation Specialist to join our team at SciPro. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing engineering support for building automation and controls systems in our cGMP Clinical and Commercial Cell Therapy Manufacturing plant.
This position requires strong systems engineering experience, ownership, and leadership skills, as well as the ability to work independently and drive effective communication and collaboration across cross-functional groups.
The Automation Specialist will be responsible for handling day-to-day activities inclusive of life cycle management, issues, deviations, corrections, remediation, and improvement efforts of automation and controls systems for facility, equipment, systems, and processes in support of personalized cell therapy production through safe and compliant manufacturing operations according to cGMP requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Works with above-plant functions to successfully implement and maintain tools, standards, policies, and procedures in compliance.
- Handles day-to-day activities for BAS, EMS, and other automation and controls system software, hardware, and associated interfaces inclusive of data management, issues, deviations, corrections, remediation, and improvement.
- Conducts local system data performance monitoring and analysis for BAS and EMS.
- Executes against SOPs, inclusive of data backup, disaster recovery, user administration, etc.
- Implements and maintains network configuration for BAS, EMS, and facility automation equipment.
- Provides training to end users.
- Provides user-defined reports and facilitates ad-hoc queries.
- Provides status reports and coordinates with other departments or outside contractors/vendors to complete tasks.
