Make your mark for patients
We are looking for a Senior Automation Engineer able to work in highly dynamic environment and a strong sense of responsability to join us in our Biologic Drug Substance Internal Capacity team located in our brand new high tech biomanufacturing plant in Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium.
About the role
As our Senior Automation Engineer, you will ensure good engineering practices and design to ensure our new BioManufacturing Plant project meets UCB expectations and strategy for all assigned packages.
1. You will also implement tactical strategies in a lean and efficient way.
2. You track and report the progress up to the model strategy implementation.
3. You ensure good engineering practices for automation
4. You ensure for your packages that deliverables will be provided timely and aligned with project planning with the right expected quality and according to the allocated budget
5. You partner closely with Automation Integrator company
6. You align design expectations with the other project disciplines : process, automation, Quality Assurance, Cleaning &Validation, …
7. You manage consultant engineers tems and sub-contractors to implement tactical automation strategy
8. You align and translate process strategies (production, cleaning, sterilization) between process equipment and automation systems
9. You align design expectations with the other
10. During plant operation, you provide guidance and assistance in term of automation and troubleshooting
11. You anticipate, manage and report risks from Detail Design till validation batches
Who will you work with
You will report to the Automation Lead and join a dynamic team in a very stimulating environment.
Your role is transversal and you’ll interact with several teams of our new manufacturing plant such as Process, Production, Qualité assurance, information & technology, Cleaning & Valdation, Operation and our external partners (e.g. Automation Integrators).
What will you do
12. Verify project documentation coming from Engineering Company and Automation Integrator
13. Challenge process design to ensure alignment between equipment
14. Participate and define overall automation strategy for our new BioManufacturing Plant (Library, Recipe structure, reporting, alarm strategy, etc.)
15. Manage the team of Engineers to deploy automation strategy
16. Follow up Automation Integrator and Vendor Packages during development and execution
17. Verify automation deliverables and anticipate any cost increase
18. Proactively report and manage risks
19. Organize operator training
20. Perform handover to operation and support team
21. Manage punch list related to its packages
22. Translate process improvement/modifications into automation requirements
23. Ensure efficient handover to operation teams and ensure they will be trained to operate the automated installation
24. After handover be part of the Automation Engineering local team and support manufacturing activities (24/24 guard)
25. Support and troubleshoot installations to guarantee process Drug Substance manufacturing
Interested? For this role we’re looking for the following education, experience and skills
26. Master’s Degree
27. 10 years‘ experience in Engineering projects in Good manufacturing practices environment / Bio-Process or Automation
28. Proven involvement in significant major engineering projects, including risk/mitigation management
29. Good level of French and English
30. Strong knowledge of cGMP
31. Strong knowledge in design, execution and Cleaning &Validation
32. Ability to translate and present expert concerns to facilitate findings
33. High communication skills (influence, negotiation, change management, facilitation)
34. High sense of responsibility
35. Ability to influence and argument
36. Ready to travel a limited period of time
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Are you ready to ‘go beyond’ to create value and make your mark for patients? If this sounds like you, then we would love to hear from you!