**Automation Engineer** + _Grade: L2_ + _Hiring Manager: Eoin Galvin_ + _Location Waterford_ + _Please note 24/7 shift pattern applies for this role_ + _Full-Time_ **About Waterford** For more than 20 years, our Waterford team has continued to grow and diversify to serve patients around the world. Today, a team of almost 800 work together at a state-of-the-art biopharmaceutical and medical device campus. Recognised through multiple local and national awards, Sanofi Waterford offers flexible working and access to a world of opportunities to grow your career at one location. As well as attractive benefits, the team enjoy access to an onsite gym and medical centre that underpin a strong commitment to health and wellbeing. **Main responsibilities:** + Work with the Automation Team to provide Automation support for operations and project implementation. + Provide technical support & guidance to Process, Maintenance & Facilities Engineers. + Act as the Automation support contact within the Mabs manufacturing area in a shift capacity role. + Identify, evaluate & implement opportunities for continuous improvement of the PLC / SCADA Automation Systems & applications. + To provide high level Automation support to operations to ensure our automation systems are kept in a compliant manner. + Excellent technical knowledge with good operational and/or project engineering experience i.e. all phases of the GAMP life cycle validation phases. + Support to the shift Automation Technicians & Engineers. + Be responsible for and involved in troubleshooting & maintenance of all production processes and equipment. + Work closely with the Process Engineers on Investigations and delivering projects and Continuous Improvements to reduce / eliminate technical issues in the area. + Support initiatives / workshops FMEAs as required. + Experience of Packaging and/or sterile vial filling an advantage but not essential. **About you:** To excel in this role you will need to have: **Essential requirements:** + 3-5 years’ experience in a pharmaceutical control systems operational and/or project engineering role. + • Experience of PLC systems Siemens Elau an advantage • Experience of SCADA systems Ifix / Wonderware Utility MS and EMS systems. + Must have good knowledge of Manufacturing equipment & processes . + Strong Diagnostic & faulting abilities. + Good Knowledge of PLC / SCADA & Vision systems. + Good Knowledge of Electrical systems, Drives Units & associated Schematics. + Support to the shift Automation Technicians & Engineers. + Responsible for and involved in troubleshooting & maintenance of all production processes and equipment. Working closely with the Process Engineers on Investigations and delivering projects and Continuous Improvements to reduce / eliminate technical issues in the area. + Support initiatives / workshops FMEAs as required. + Must have good written and verbal communication skills as well as the ability to accurately document work performed. + Must be able to organize and prioritize tasks; must be detail orientated and self-motivated. + Must be able to work independently on own projects while working concurrently with all departments and levels of employees. **Pursue** **_progress_** **, discover** **_extraordinary_** Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people. 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