Kindeva Drug Delivery · 12 hours ago
Sr Automation - Vision Engineer
St. Louis County, MO
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
2+ years expKindeva Drug Delivery is focused on providing effective automated manufacturing solutions. The Sr Automation - Vision Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the reliability and effectiveness of automation systems, troubleshooting issues, leading projects for system improvements, and collaborating with various departments to meet operational objectives.
Manufacturing
Responsibilities
Perform equipment evaluations and troubleshoot where necessary. Troubleshooting may require both mechanical and automated system evaluations
Monitors equipment systems for reliability, maintenance history, downtime factors, efficiency, reject rates, and other elements affecting overall up-time and quality output
Performs periodic software system backups, security (password) updates, PLC code comparisons, vision job file backups, and maintains the Automation Archives
Prioritizes activities based on the criticality of systems to ensure quality and regulatory compliance
Acts as Automation's single point of contact for their assigned area of responsibility. Provides technical leadership and guidance to site operating groups through investigations, equipment assessments, generation of user requirements, design support and troubleshooting activities
Collaborate with managers within Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, and Quality to ensure the mission objectives, and strategies are executed consistently and to the fullest extent to support the site as intended and outlined in service level agreements with the varies customer groups
Initiates and leads projects to make improvements to vision/automation systems via Quality Change Control process
Supports capital projects and leads Automation aspects of those projects as required
Generates or modifies standard operating procedures, risk assessments, forms, templates, and logs as required
Serves as System Administrator for all manufacturing, inspection, packaging, environmental monitoring, laboratory, and support systems where Automation group has the primary support role. Maintain list of active users, adds new approved users, deactivates terminated users, and resets passwords when necessary
Qualification
Required
Associate's degree or Higher; Preferred Bachelor of Science degree in a technical field, Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical or Computer Engineering; OR 2+ years in industrial automation software, robotics, or machine vision controls
Experience in an FDA regulated industry (e.g. Pharmaceuticals, Medical Device)
Preferred
2 or more years industrial automation/machine vision controls experience; should have detailed knowledge of programming of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs), machine vision systems, and/or Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems
Company
Kindeva Drug Delivery
Kindeva Drug Delivery is a global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) in the pharmaceutical industry.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$46.96MKey Investors
Global Britain Investment Fund
2023-08-03Grant· $41.96M
2022-11-14Acquired
2022-06-13Series Unknown· $5M
Leadership Team
Brian Schubmehl
Chief Human Resources Officer
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