Sr. Automation Engineer

**THE OPPORTUNITY**
- This is part of the WDA programme - the contract will be 2 years in duration
- Based in Singapore, the regional hub for Asia Pacific (AP) and top-ranked biopharmaceutical company on The Straits Times and Statista’s list of Best Employers in Singapore for two consecutive years (2020, 2021).
- Join the premier biopharmaceutical company that has been in Singapore for more than 25 years and in AP for over 60 years.

Our Engineers support internal and external manufacturing operations remain operational, continuously improve and innovate. With our extensive range of facilities and environments, our Engineers have opportunities across many diverse areas including Biological, Chemical, Automation, Capital Projects, Maintenance, Safety, Process Development, Technical Services, Utilities and Validation.

**WHAT YOU WILL DO**
- Lead and manage the development of new product launch, new capabilities and optimization operational project initiatives to facilitate technical transfer of new program into manufacturing and provide the automation solution
- Provides technical support for new equipment/process start-ups and operation
- Identify opportunities to improve existing control processes and equipment by leveraging and setting industry best practices
- Lead complex operational plant troubleshooting efforts and investigation of production process, equipment, systems and code/configuration
- Performs Automation maintenance, including Preventive maintenance and periodic review of system, system backup, disaster recovery, and obsolescence activities, and ensures automation systems remain in a validated state.
- Updates the SOPs and SDLC documentation to ensure compliance to regulatory standards and ensures documents are generated and maintained to the required standards and appropriate frequency
- Prepares and perform AIQ/AOQ, test plans, and documentation, ensuring documentation meets required regulatory standards
- Support plant improvement initiatives and site capital projects
- Active involvement in proposing the direction and implementation of the automation control
- Make changes to manufacturing process control under strict GMP change control management process to optimize processes and maintain compliance
- Perform Root Cause Analysis, develop corrective and preventive actions, effective countermeasures and implement the solutions to prevent recurrence
- Work closely with stakeholder to ensure production supply
- Collaborate with cross functional team to resolve incidents, events or deviations
- Participates in reviews and completes action items as required
- Develops and updates Automation training packages, and conducts Automation training
- Support Service Owner and System Owner roles for DCS, PLC and BMS system etc

**WHAT YOU MUST HAVE**

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Bachelor's degree in Automation, Electronics & Electrical, Instrumentation, Information Technology, Life Sciences or Chemical Engineering
- 5+ years relevant technical experience in Process Automation, preferably from manufacturing, chemical, oil & gas industries
- Hands on experience with automation systems and be particularly proficient in Emerson or Yokogawa technology is preferred
- Good Communication skills and Good team player
- Excellent problem-solving skills and customer focused
- Proactive and willing to take on challenges
- Demonstrates ability to work independently and drive results on multiple assignments in fast-paced environment
- Work with different teams to meet common goals, provide end to end solutions and no functional boundaries

**WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT**
- Opportunities across various functional group within biopharmaceutical manufacturing
- Diverse and dynamic team that focuses on development and success.

Our Support Functions deliver services and makes recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the experience of working at our organization. Our Support Functions include HR, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.

**WHO WE ARE**

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

**WHAT WE LOOK FOR**

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team