Job Summary
The successful Systems Technician will provide support to production and maintenance teams, implementing strategic and tactical enhancements to the systems, providing innovative inputs to new production lines, following strict adherence to CGMP, contributing to compliance initiatives, actively participating in team meetings, and supporting engineering projects.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide support to production and maintenance teams
* Implement strategic and tactical enhancements to the systems, to provide a competitive advantage for manufacturing
* Provide innovative inputs to new production lines in the areas of control, data collection, motive power, robotics and communications
* Follow strict adherence to the requirements of CGMP
* Contribute to the enhancement of compliance initiatives for areas of responsibility
* Actively participate in team meetings
* Support Engineering projects and lead actions assigned to systems group
Requirements
* Fully Certified Electrician or Certificate/Diploma in Electrical Engineering, Automation or Mechatronics
* Essential experience required with PLC programmers, Motion Control, sensors, in-line vision systems (Cognex in particular), Barcode systems, Network topology, PC skills, PC application software, and Systematic troubleshooting/problem solving skills
* Experience in high volume automation or plant control. Experience in SCADA, Allen Bradley Control Logix & PLC 5, Siemens or similar PLC programming and control
* Working within a GMP environment
Desirable Skills
* Experience with programming of Allen-Bradley Controllogix5000 and PLC5, ControlNet/Device Net, Visual Basic applications, Motion Control programming (Sercos, AB, Emerson, Lenze), Barcode systems (SICK, DVT)
* Experience of equipment and software validation, IQ, OQ and PQ
* Experience of FDA regulations, 21CFR Part 11, Electronic records, electronic signatures and Part 820, Quality system regulation
* Good verbal and written communication skills
* Strong Teamwork abilities
* High level of flexibility: shift changes/travel commitments/training courses and project support