Major Responsibilities & Deliverables
• Manage the automation commissioning and design for a greenfield project.
• Design and implement process automation systems and solutions, to control and optimize pharmaceutical manufacturing operations.
• Ensure compliance with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) regulations and Current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMPs).
• Coordinating Automation Vendors to drive Department Objectives.
• Support the development in devising automation solutions that improve productivity, business operations and safety/quality standards.
• Assist the automation manager in terms of Design deliverables and proactively support the automation documentation activities.
• Take up responsibility to be on field and perform any troubleshooting for automation systems.
• Prepare and perform IQ/OQ, Test plans, SDLC documentation ensuring document meets the standards.
• Develop Automation protocols and assist the C&Q team.
• Ensure and manage the documents from the Vendors are delivered on time ensuring the quality.
• Read and understand the company Procedures and implement right procedures at right time.
• Review the technical documentation from vendors and approve as necessary.
• Urge to learn new technology and present the latest technologies available for automation and implement them as necessary.
• Manage the Production equipment from basis design to implementation stage.
• Expected to lead the software design, hardware design of the assigned production equipment.
• Work closely with Automation manager to ensure relevant timelines are met, quality of testing activities and ensure proper documentation is followed.
• Review the hardware panel and instrument selection by the team and ensure it matches the vision of the project.
• Implement the industry standard architecture and panel design by optimizing the cost with the highest quality deliverables.
• Manage the timelines with Vendors and ensure the project costing is kept under control.
• Review the System architecture, hardware/software design specifications, sub-systems interfacing points, detailed point schedules, control panel drawing etc.
• Review and validate technical choices compliance with the design (based on Technical Design Process).
• Ensure documentation relating to the project is properly and promptly dealt with in the correct contractual manner.
• Work with Vendors to support the Digitalization and IIOT to ensure the data storage and integrity is managed properly as per Standards.
• Work with suppliers to implement the latest off the shelf technology to ensure the product life cycle is managed as per industry standards.
• Manage the FAT of the instrument panels, controller panels on the vendor locations and ensure the system is qualified and maintained throughout the life cycle.
Required Experience & Qualification
• Principles of automation, automatic control systems and automatic manufacturing technologies.
• Must have worked on Bio process equipment such as Bioreactor, Chrome, VI, Filtration skids etc.
• Must have worked on DeltaV implementation (preferably greenfield).
• Should possess min of 15yrs of proven bio process experience and implementation in DeltaV.
• Communication protocols such as Profinet/Ethernet IP are must. Bus communication such as Profibus PA is added advantage.
• Proven SAT experience commissioning the production equipments.
