Automation Engineer, Two-Year Contract

As part of the operational automation team at Frankfurt Bio Campus, you will support pen and autoinjector production with technical questions about automation and production databases. The team has 13 specialists working across four areas of automation and equipment obsolescence.

• As an Automation Engineer, you will look after central automation systems.
• Carry out measures to address obsolescence in automation systems and their connections and interfaces with higher-level systems such as Antares serialisation, LMS and vision systems, and SAP.
• Work closely with global project teams.
• Work with colleagues in the autonomous production units to resolve faults and make lasting improvements to equipment availability using all available tools and production data.
• Create training materials and standard operating procedures, and train employees to use the systems.
• Create and update qualification documents and carry out equipment qualification tests.
• Deliver projects of varying sizes while following all relevant company requirements and legal standards for GMP, safety, health and environmental protection.
• Work with a wide range of contacts across the site, campus and company.

• Engineer or qualified technician with several years of professional experience in electrical engineering, computer science or a related field, ideally specialising in automation, information technology or network technology
• Experience with automation platforms such as SIMATIC S7 is desirable
• Professional experience in the pharmaceutical sector, including GMP and qualification
• Teamwork skills
• Ability to organise your own work
• Ability to guide colleagues and coordinate project teams through technical leadership
• Ability to work with colleagues in production, manufacturing management and quality
• Confident use of network infrastructure, databases and communication protocols
• Experience with optical inspection systems, such as text recognition, code reading and colour checks
• Experience with automation platforms such as SIMATIC S7
• Experience with serialisation systems such as Antares and vision systems
• Very good spoken and written German and English