Senior Automation Engineer Job Description
Senior automation engineer
provides technical and application support for PLC, HMI, motion, safety PLC and machinery drives.
Senior Automation Engineer Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Manage large-scale capital projects to ensure on-time and in-budget completion
Manage small- and mid-scale capital projects to ensure on-time and in-budget completion
Maintain archived records and documentation
Provide, verify, measure, and revise drawings
Recommend compliance resolutions to management
Work with development teams across the organization to plan, implement, and track end-to-end automation activities
Functions as a leading member of an agile team and helps drive consistent development practices
Typically spends 60% of time writing code, creating scripts or implementing automation tools, and remainder of time collaborating with stakeholders through ongoing product/platform releases
Contributes to decisions about tools, methods and approaches for projects automation activities
Ensures Engineering team delivers a quality product that meets the defined Acceptance Criteria
Senior Automation Engineer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Senior Automation Engineer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: ISTQB, QA, AWS, JCP, PMP, PLC, OCAJP/OCPJP, MS, ITIL, CCBA
Education for Senior Automation Engineer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the senior automation engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Technical, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Education, Science, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing
Skills for Senior Automation Engineer
Desired skills for senior automation engineer include:
PLC
Application of lasers Etching/Marking
Automated equipment systems and tools - robotic
Conveyors
Dispense process
HMI
Inspection/Test
Material handling
Pick-Place-Pack
Plastics welding and joining
Desired experience for senior automation engineer includes:
Experience with scripting languages JavaScript, VBScript, Perl, Python, Ruby
Experience in source control
Prior telecom (mobile) industry experience preferred
The Senior Automation Engineer I for Building Automation will help improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Engineering Technical Services Group (ETS) by contributing towards infrastructure and system improvements, policies, guidelines, procedures, standards and cross-functional business processes
Providing tactical support and the ability to troubleshoot day to day issues will be expected, providing well thought out solutions
Ansible scripting knowledge, Mirantis OpenStack Component, LINUX (Ubuntu, RHEL) networking & system administration, Scripting Knowledge (Shell, Puppet, Chef)
Senior Automation Engineer Examples
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Senior Automation Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of senior automation engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior automation engineer
- Understand development/coding technology to better communicate with developers
- Plan and implement test automation strategy for product developed by 3 scrum teams
- Build an extend continuous delivery pipeline
- Follow defect tracking processes
- Actively engage with quality engineers outside of the local sprint team across various disciplines (APIs, Web)
- Project management from ideation, justification, implementation to sustainability
- Contribute engineering and operations expertise to new assembly requirements
- Provide leadership and support to cross-functional teams comprised of Safety, Environmental, Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, Quality and Packaging Engineering
- Develop business case and financial justification for implementing capital projects
- Develop project timelines and work to meet target launch dates
Qualifications for senior automation engineer
- Extensive experience writing, debugging, and maintaining C, C++, Perl, Python, Java and Shell scripts
- Strong commitment to best practices in SQA and software development, including modern Continuous Integration (CI) processes and automating everything vision
- 5+ years of programming experience (in any programming language), Basic knowledge of UNIX operating system
- General sense of urgency, multitasking
- 4-year degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline
- 5 years of experience supporting manufacturing operations in a regulated or cGMP environment
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Senior Automation Engineer Job Description
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Our company is looking to fill the role of senior automation engineer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior automation engineer
- Conduct interdependent partnering with cross-functional peer group and management and effectively influence others
- Lead or Participate as a technical team member or technical representative on cross functional teams
- Participate in the creation, review, approval, and execution of Commissioning and Qualification documentation such as plans, protocols and reports as required
- Prepare and lead review of project proposals, charters, project updates for assigned projects for management
- Decision made at this level are limited in scope and authority
- Provides engineering expertise for the design, specification and installation of pharmaceutical manufacturing automation systems
- Leads automation portion of expansion and upgrade projects
- Performs and documents hardware/software modifications to existing systems
- Ensures that all automation designs and technical documentation adhere to GMP standards
- Performs 21CFR Part11 assessments and GMP evaluations of control systems to ensure they meet FDA requirements
Qualifications for senior automation engineer
- Working knowledge on XML Technologies JAXB and JAXP
- Ability to effectively communicate across 3rd parties, technical and business product managers on solution design
- Reviews others' systems designs to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources, and integration of multiple systems and technology
- Evaluates and undertakes impact analysis on major design options and assesses and manages associated risks
- Takes technical responsibility for all stages in the software development process
- Takes part in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues' work
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Senior Automation Engineer Job Description
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Our growing company is hiring for a senior automation engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior automation engineer
- On the floor trouble shooting support of manufacturing activities
- Maintains all system life cycle documentation
- Identify and drive opportunities for continuous improvement to enhance systems, procedures, business processes
- Lead troubleshooting efforts as required for all laboratory systems
- Be able to liaise with customer, consultants, EPCs, engineering teams for all technical matters
- Adopt responsibility for the project management of control systems and software based projects across a cross functional multidiscipline team environment
- Use automated solutions to develop, maintain, and improve manufacturing and inspection processes and procedures
- Transition manually intensive and error prone processes onto automated equipment
- Optimize existing automated and partially automated processes to improve quality, efficiency, throughput, and cost
- Build partnerships with our key equipment vendors and service providers
Qualifications for senior automation engineer
- HP Quality Center OTA API working experience (Desired)
- Mongo (Strongly Desired)
- CSV ( Required)
- Experience with unit test tools a plus JUnit, TestNG
- Familiarity with virtual infrastructure using VMware and understanding the integration between virtual and physical systems
- In depth technical knowledge of of Linux, Networking, Storage or Databases
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Senior Automation Engineer Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior automation engineer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior automation engineer
- Manage custom automation projects used for the manufacture of medical devices, including supplier selection, supervision during fabrication, acceptance testing, installation, and start-up
- Implement Approved Changes in accordance with Medical Device regulatory requirements
- Create test automation for new and existing feature areas across multiple products and releases
- Utilize firmware interfaces for functional, performance, stress, and manufacturing automations tests
- Help create new methodologies to automate various aspects of our product including GPS, heart rate, steps and floors
- Execute and monitor results of automated suites within our CI infrastructure
- Utilize automation best practices, patters, and processes within the engineering
- Assist with the creation of the overall automation strategy across multiple products
- Work with third party vendor on initial automation framework
- Create automation frameworks to automate across multiple products and product types
Qualifications for senior automation engineer
- Demonstrate ability to provide technical leadership of an entire project team
- Gather customer testing requirements and make project-level technical scoping and prioritization decisions
- Independently execute production scale performance tests based on defined requirements
- Tool and Die certification with a min
- Bachelor’s Degree in Manufacturing Engineering or Mechanical Engineering or relevant discipline
- Must have a minimum of 7 years of hands on experience developing automated equipment
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Senior Automation Engineer Job Description
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a senior automation engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior automation engineer
- Perform QA engineering reviews and ensure compliance with stated requirements
- Identify the goal of the serve and develop a QA strategy and plan
- Evaluate and test new software applications
- Implement test cases using automated test tools
- Transform detailed requirements into a complete, detailed systems QA document which focuses on how to verify the required functionality
- Convert the design into a complete test system
- Install the systems environment
- Create and test databases
- Prepare test case procedures, test files and perform a test readiness review
Qualifications for senior automation engineer
- Eggplant (Desired)
- Managing QTP automation artifacts in ALM (Desired)
- Must be able to communicate effectively in writing verbally
- All listed duties
- Experience working with other equivalent access technologies such as xPON, xDSL, is valuable
- Knowledge or experience with container technology (Docker, Rocket)