Infrastructure Engineer

Position Title:

Infrastructure Engineer Work Location:

Vacaville

CA 95688

Assignment Duration:

6

Months Work Arrangement:

Onsite Position Summary:

Provide support and technical contribution for the Process Automation Systems Distributed Control System (DCS), Manufacturing Control System (MCS), Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), Building Automation System (BAS) and site manufacturing and Quality Control (QC) systems. Provide support to other business and information management related infrastructure for manufacturing and QC operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide System Administration, Infrastructure design and support for the MCS, DCS, and site QC systems.
• Provide support to routine user management activities for manufacturing and QC systems.
• Provide support to routine backup/restore/archival activities for production automation and site QC systems.
• Provide support for routine data retention, review audit trails, and patching for manufacturing and QC systems.
• Assist Senior/Principal System Engineers to maintain system availability and support infrastructure components, including firewalls and antivirus software.
• Work with project teams and outside groups including manufacturing, engineering, process science, validation and quality assurance personnel to implement right the first time solutions.
• Support the resolution of automation and QC system issues including cause analysis, issue resolution, unplanned event assessments, CAPAs, and investigation.
• Assist with Infrastructure (Production and QC) testing, debug, and startup activities.
• Perform troubleshooting and provide support for Cell Culture Plant 1 (CCP1), Cell Culture Plant 2 (CCP2), PLC and Site QC system and software issues, including on- call / after-hours support (as required).
• Support and resolve and break-fix issues.
• Support project lead and/or Senior automation personal for development review and approval of requirements documents, scope definition documents, design documents and drawings.
• Provide support for ongoing manufacturing by evaluating discrepancies, taking authorized discrepancy additional actions, providing technical input for investigation and/or developing and implementing corrective action plans.

Qualification & Experience:

• Effective communication at all levels
• Ability to secure relevant information and identify key issues and relationships from a base of information.
• Evaluate automation engineering problems and be able to devise cause and effect relationships and propose solutions.
• Adapt to changing conditions
• Ability to prioritize deliverables