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Lonza · 2 days ago

Operational Technology Engineer, Cell & Gene Therapy

Portsmouth, NH

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

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Responsibilities

Provide day-to-day Operations Technology (OT) and infrastructure support for the site supporting a range of business areas including Quality Control, Manufacturing, Engineering, Controls Automation, Facilities, and others as needed.

Contribute to designing, documenting and implementing infrastructure to meet site needs while aligning with corporate standards and industry best practices.

Maintain the integrity of site infrastructure, which includes performing routine preventative maintenance (patching, updates, upgrades) and ensuring appropriate security standards are followed.

Monitor and troubleshoot daily system backups. Perform maintenance and repairs for operator workstations, label printers, and wireless devices.

Proactively recognize potential issues or problems and establish the necessary corrective actions.

Assist with the planning and execution of plant projects involving computerized infrastructure changes and process improvements.

Investigate and troubleshoot technical problems of increasing complexity.

Utilize colleagues, system documentation, and support contracts to solve complex problems.

Continuous awareness of new methodologies pertinent to information systems and ability to introduce them with limited supervisory input in a GMP compliant manner.

Develop, test and maintain disaster recovery procedures.

Authoring of commissioning protocols (installation, operation, etc.)

Own change requests and participate in all aspects of implementing changes.

Assist the Quality department with deviation/root cause investigations.

Qualification

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Manufacturing Execution System (MES)Emerson’s Syncade platformBiotech/pharma industryPowerShellPythonVB scripting.NetSQLInformation interfaces designData conversionNetwork fundamentalsDatabasesOracleSQL ServerVirtualization platformsVMWARENetwork switchingNetwork monitoring utilitiesCISCOOSI’s PI platformInfometric InfoBatch

Required

Bachelor’s degree required. Preferred areas of study: Computer Science, Information Technology or an applicable Engineering discipline.

Familiarity with an event-based Manufacturing Execution System (MES) preferably in the life sciences field: Emerson’s Syncade platform preferred.

Significant experience in Information Technology in a high availability production and laboratory environment. Biotech/pharma or regulated industry experience preferred.

Experience scripting in PowerShell, Python, and/or VB.

Experience with programming languages; VB Script, .Net, and SQL is preferred.

Experience with designing information interfaces, data conversion, and network and infrastructure fundamentals.

Experience with databases; Oracle and SQL Server.

Knowledge of virtualization platforms and functionality – VMWARE preferred.

Understanding of network switching and network monitoring utilities – CISCO preferred.

Exposure to OSI’s PI platform is highly desired.

Exposure to Infometric InfoBatch is highly desired.

Company

Lonza

Glassdoor

3.6

Lonza Group supplies products and services to pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries.

Founded in 1897

Basel, Basel-Stadt, CHE

10,001+ employees

http://www.lonza.com

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