Senior Engineer, Automation

A professional engineer with formal team leader responsibilities who plans and coordinates specialist engineering activities and is charged with managing project revenues over a portfolio of projects. Alternatively provides technical and project management support to colleagues in an area of expertise within the engineering function.

• Manages or provides technical support to multiple projects.
• Acts as technical owner of specific area within Engineering function of AstraZeneca or as deep specialist in one field.
• Either leads the planning, managing, and monitoring of major projects from concepts through implementation, or provides expert technical support to project manager carrying out these functions.
• Identifies, evaluates, recommends and selects technical options to be adopted as global standards.
• Provides technical advice and information to other function members.
• Keeps own knowledge of best practices and new developments up to date.
• Leads trouble shooting activities to resolve existing problems and inform future Engineering developments.
• Assists in initiating, conducting and coordinating resource allocation and financial program evaluation reviews.
• Gathers and analyses data related to establishing and maintaining business processes, procedures and policies.
• Evaluates and monitors performance and efficiency of programs and projects to ensure target are met.
• Assists with preparing budget status reports, forecast reports, reports on adherence to key performance indicators and other management reports.
• Leads project staff in preparing cost applications and budgets for new business development.
• Works on overall project planning by reporting on project schedules and deliverables
• Helps co-ordinate resources within the business teams, project team or across the department.
• Ensure compliance of own work and work of others with Safety, Health and Environment standards

• Subject Matter Expert (SME) on process/system integration
• Determines process control requirements.
• Resolves issues for automation processes.
• Designs systems to process requirements.
• Designs/executes commissioning studies.
• Leads investigations.
• Leads risk analysis.
• Leads cross functional teams, FTEs, and contractors.
• Approves change control.
• Executes tech transfers.
• Conducts presentations for higher management.
• Assists in the creation of budgets.
• Creates integrated project timelines

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Life Sciences or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Auditing Experience
• Project management experience
• Regulations (ISPE, GAMP, Annex 1, CFR)
• Data Integrity
• Quality Systems (Change management, investigations, etc.)

• OSI PI
• ASQ CQE (American Society of Quality Certified Quality Engineer)
• Technology Transfer

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