Senior Automation Engineer

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Job Description Summary The Senior Automation Engineer reports to the Site ITOT Head and is responsible for providing automation design team leadership and serving as a technical subject matter expert for a Novartis gene therapy manufacturing facility. This includes responsibilities for maintaining, troubleshooting, and modifying the GMP and non-GMP control systems. Systems include plant wide DCS (DeltaV), BMS (Rockwell SCADA) and 3rd party local control systems. Location: - This position will be located in Durham, NC and will be an onsite role. - Novartis is unable to offer relocation support for this role: please only apply if this location is accessible for you. Key Responsibilities: - Provide design, configuration, installation, and maintenance of automation software and associated hardware; including interacting with other teams as necessary. - Provide oversight or participation on automation aspects of future projects including integration of 3rd party equipment to the plant DCS and BMS systems, data concentration, batch reporting, and data retention. - Prepare scopes of work for large projects and manage automation contractors as required to complete required work within pro...