Senior Automation Specialist – GSK – Waver

Your responsibilities:

• Business acumen to fully understand customer needs and offer appropriate solutions.

• Ensure regular technical contact with MPU Head, TS Head and global automation expert.

• Ensure automation and control systems and equipment understanding including instrumentation, sensors, controllers, supervision and databases.

• Focus on performance of operations, able to present the full system lifecycle.

• Manage vendors contracts and vendor relationships to ensure implementation and support of automation and control systems

• Define and validate technical content of each support troubleshooting request with the different MPU.

• Provide support to “Asset Care” team: E-Ticket request, specific troubleshooting and TP13 assessment.

• Deep analysis of the problem / issue, propose direct and integrated solutions to highly complex technical problems.

• Propose the best action plan/solution in term of Quality, Timing and Price

• Close follow-up of the right Implementation of the solution

• Ensure Benchmarking and technologies watch of Automation System, Equipment and Network

• Analyze the opportunities to improve internal process and system

• Responsible to manage the expert team and to select with his N+1 adequate outsourced resources for short-term need.

• Escalade to GLOBAL/MSAT, LOC’s / MPU topics

• Assure that Global Guidance are integrated in LOC’s documents

• Perform GEMBA and PSS

• Perform training package for specific technology

• Build internal capabilities to diagnose and solve automation issues (by Mentoring & Coaching

  • Provide adequate support for field inspections and follow-up of all remediation activities to retrieve the necessary information to update the specifications and capture the lessons learned with final accountability for the performance and reliability of these systems.
  • Review and participate in the improvement of the Global Engineering Standards, Technical Standards, to enhance standardization and simplification of design
  • Provide expertise support to the CAPEX project managers resulting in optimal project execution. Able to define the best automation solutions during the project design phases.

• Act as Senior Expert in his domain of competence on Internal and External Audit (L1,L2,L3,L4). Be fronter during inspection Accountability:

• Drive specifications in its discipline

• Provide the technical expertise to resolve the complex technical issues experienced by MPU regarding technical installations in its discipline

• Design the systems in compliance with GMP, EHS, FDA, GSK requirements

• Implements strict project control and reports to his management (Milestones follow-up and budget) and internal customer

• Execute Continuous Engineering Improvement projects in accordance with our quality Management System requirements Leadership :

• Lead and motivate empowered teams of GSK experts and contingents

• Recruit, train and motivate staff to ensure skill set meets current and future business demands providing technical coaching and training plans as required

• Ensure the retention and keep the knowhow internally

• Manage some Outsourcing mission

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• 8 – 10 years’ experience in the required domain

• Leadership of expert’s team

• Broad knowledge of Automation Technologies.

• Deep and specific technical knowledge of control, monitoring and data systems

• Expertise in DCS, PLC and SCADA technologies

• Expertise in cGMP

• Expertise in Commissioning and Validation of automation system

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics it would be a plus:

• Highly effective at influencing internally and externally

• Highly effective communication skills both verbal and written

• Has the ability to work fully autonomous

• Sense of urgency, flexibility and accountability.

• Ability to discuss and negotiate technical matters with suppliers

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