Why Patients Need You

Whether you are involved in the design and development of manufacturing processes for products or supporting maintenance and reliability, engineering is vital to making sure customers and patients have the medicines they need, when they need them. Working with our innovative engineering team, you'll help bring medicines to the world even faster by imagining what’s possible and taking action.

What You Will Achieve

Working with Pfizer’s dynamic engineering team, you will play a critical role in supporting manufacturing information systems to improve manufacturing success rates and ensuring zero down time. You will integrate manufacturing, process operational knowledge, equipment control and data into systems, which enforces the sequence of operations across departments.

As an associate, your focus on the job will contribute in achieving project tasks and goals. Through your domain knowledge and commitment, you will create a collaborative team environment for your colleagues.

It is your hard work and focus that will make Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.

How You Will Achieve It

• Support the operation and troubleshooting of manufacturing equipment and control systems including SCADA /HMI & PLCs.
• Knowledge of commonly used equipment and machines in pharmaceutical industry
• Support reliability engineering for production and support equipment
• Provide on the floor operational support.
• Generate user requirement specifications for control systems.
• Knowledge of qualification concepts – URS/DQ/IQ/OQ and PQ.
• Review vendor automation design documentation (FS, HDS, SDS, DDS, requirements traceability matrix, code and logic, etc.).
• Support FAT/commissioning/qualification activities as required
• Documentation review skills
• Effective problem-solving capabilities
• Excellent Interpersonal, written and communication skills
• Effective coordination between departments
• Prepare Change Controls associated with changes to control systems
• Responsible for backup/archiving/restoring of Automation configuration.
• Understand 21 CFR Part 11, cGAMP, and other regulatory guidance associated with computer / automation-based systems.
• Develop and implement site automation standards for hardware and software
• Develop SOP and Job Aid's

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Bachelor of Technology/Engineering in Electrical/ Electronics/Instrumentation/ Communication Engineering
• 4 to 6 years’ experience in a combination of process control, automation (PLC, SCADA & DCS) in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology or other life sciences industries.
• Individual must be capable of reading and understanding electrical control system diagrams (control panel wiring diagrams, loop drawings, panel layout drawings and schedules, etc.). Comfortable walking down control system diagrams and red lining them to reflect as built conditions.
• Good technical knowledge on field Instrumentation
• Good technical knowledge of industrial communication networks and related hardware & software.
• Basic understanding of sequel servers and databases.
• Familiarity with current industry practices and guidelines including those required / outlined by the FDA, ISO, EU and ICH.

Nice-to-Have

• Pharmaceutical industry engineering experience

Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.