Automation Engineer

Are you passionate about working in a global pharmaceutical company that helps people living with allergy? Are you motivated to make improvements, leading to better economy, quality and social responsibility? Are you perceived as a structured and constructive person with excellent collaboration skills? 

As an Automation Engineer supports all production activities regarding automated processes, systems, and computerized equipment on-site to ensure work is performed ensures compliance corporate requirements and site policies.

These activities are summarized into:

• Production Support for automatized systems incidents.
• Carry out Lifecycle System and associated documentation.
• Provide technical support to Project Responsible in specification or design phases.
• Technical Project Management associated with control systems and automation.

Organizational chart: Reports to Engineering Automation Manager

Fields of responsibility:

• Management and support Production Application Systems and Computerized equipment on site.
• Investigate issues and reporting conclusions.
• System Manager for minor changes to a system (such as recipes, user accounts, some screen, etc).
• Be involved in different parts of a project involving automation systems.
• Develop, implement, and update technical documentation regarding system qualification, according to corporate requirements and site policies.
• Management of contracts and suppliers:
  • ALK's interlocutor with the supplier and other External Support Technical Service (ENG): coordinate activities for resolve issues, monitoring of activities and documentation issued.
• Participate in regular meetings with Technical Team Groups, suppliers and Global Teams.

Your qualifications:

Degree on Engineering (Automation/Electronics)

Experience of at least 3 years in a similar position in the Pharmaceutical Industry or similar is valued (GMP Knowledge).

English is mandatory for communicating with suppliers and global teams, and for generating documentation.

Experience and Technical knowledge in these areas:

•  System Manager, deployments and supporting.
•  Knowledge of configuring Automation, Control, and Instrumentation project:

                - PLC programming and associated SCADA (Siemens Tia Portal).

•  Programing Data Acquisition Systems (SCADA) project.
•  Configuring Vision Systems (OCR and SeaVision MES).
•  Windows Servers Environment.
• Validation and qualification systems knowledge.

Skills overview.

• Proactive and results-oriented behavior.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem solver skills.
• A positive attitude to adapt to rapid changes in the event of incidents, problems, or replanning.
• Able to plan activities by prioritizing based on criticality and impact.
• Have the capacity to facilitate activities to third parties.
• Understand other points of view.
• Good communicative skills and able to adapt in diverse work teams, locally or globally.

The company

By collecting information and the latest and most trusted solutions together in one place, we want to make allergy surprisingly simple to manage. With 100 years of experience and almost 3.000 employees around the world, nobody knows allergy like us, and we continuously apply our scientific knowledge and expertise to help people take control of their allergy and their life.

We want to make a difference by offering solutions for everyone who is touched by allergy – through a comprehensive range of products, services and resources that offer a fast-track to a more balanced life.

We are driven by a high level of professionalism, integrity, an open-minded approach and contributing to an inspiring and fun working environment together with colleagues.

The position is located at ALK’s site in Madrid what is in the business area of ​​Ciudad Lineal, very close to the center of Madrid. We have quick access to the Hermanos García Noblejas and Ascao metro stations and we also have a wide bus connection. The manufacturing center is located at Calle Miguel Fleta 19 while the Business Support area is in an annex building located in the Avalon Business Park. Nevertheless, we have a remote working policy that will allow you to work from home part of your time.

ALK, among other benefits, has a canteen where employees can have breakfast and lunch every day.

If this sounds like a company mission, job and a department you would like to be part of, we hope to receive your CV and application, but please do not send your CV via e-mail due to GDPR rules.

Contact

For further information on the position please contact Alberto Javier Pérez, Engineering Automation Manager, AlbertoJavier.PerezGarcia@alk.net or People department ESMA_HR@alk.net