Senior DCS Systems Engineer

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Senior DCS Systems Engineer Location: Monksland, Athlone: 37.5 per week (Mon–Fri, 09:00–17:00, flexible) Competitive salary and benefits: Opening date: 14/04/2026: Closing date: midnight 20/04/2026: Introduction to role: The Senior DCS Systems Engineer plays a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability, compliance and cybersecurity of GMP‑critical manufacturing systems. You will own the site Distributed Control System (DCS), safeguarding batch execution, control applications, servers and workstations, while enabling secure integration with historians, MES, utilities and facility systems. Working at the interface of Automation and IT, this role supports digitalisation, analytics and AI‑enabled optimisation aligned with Industry 4.0, directly protecting patient supply and product quality. Accountabilities: - Own availability, performance and reliability of the site DCS and supporting OT infrastructure - Maintain DCS systems in a validated, audit‑ready state (cGMP, GAMP 5, 21 CFR Part 11, data integrity) - Govern change control for control logic, recipes, integrations and infrastructure - Lead DCS cybersecurity controls in line with ISA/IEC 62443, including patching, segmentation and in...