Automation Engineer

Automation Engineer - 1 Year Contract
- ** Develop strategies that align **with business imperatives
- ** 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 Manufacturing Operations teams are the people that make our products. We work in the manufacturing plants with a “Safety First, Quality Always” mindset striving for continuous improvement. We work in the local plant connected to our global manufacturing network to ensure the highest quality of raw materials, intermediates and finished products.

The Automation Engineer is responsible for providing technical support in the field of automation.

**WHAT YOU WILL DO**
- Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:_
- Support IPT Automation Lead in providing expertise technical knowledge/advice to IPT/ COE’s on computerized/automation systems.
- Perform system maintenance, including system backup, disaster recovery, and obsolescence activities, and ensures automation systems remain in a validated state
- Ensure timely resolution of identified automation issues and unplanned events identified in the daily walk-through
- Escalate any ongoing automations issues to the Automation Lead in a timely manner.
- Execute PM and look for continuous improvement opportunities.
- Perform automation change controls with guidance from Automation Lead to ensure that changes are raised and closed on time following the required quality standards.
- Prepare and perform AIQ/OQ, test plans, and SDLC documentation, ensuring document meets required regulatory standards
- Develop and updates Automation training packages, and conduct automation training
- Support for deviation and operation investigation requiring code and system-level troubleshooting.
- Support a continuous improvement framework within Automation and IPT, and work with Leads to identify and implement improvements
- Able to work independently and as a team member in a collaborative environment.
- Advantage to have basic understanding of data visualizations / business intelligence tools - Powerapps, Spotfire, Tableau, PowerBI or similar.
- Participate and actively support Digital Transformation initiatives involving system integrations, data connectivity, validation methods and value-based optimization of manufacturing via process control system
- Actively contribute to build and leverage on knowledge base within the IT/Automation team
- Support Digitalization projects and other activities assigned by superviso

**WHAT YOU MUST HAVE**

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Bachelor of Engineering/ Computing/ Science
- Diploma with relevant hands on experience
- 2 to 3 years of technical experience in Automation System, such as Siemens/Rockwell PLC & SCADA, Emerson DeltaV DCS, Packaging Line systems
- Fresh graduates are welcome to apply

**WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT**
- Limitless opportunities across various areas in Manufacturing; well-structured career path
- A state-of-the-art facility that delivers solution to its customers world-wide
- Highly engaging team that aims to innovate the future

Our Manufacturing & Supply Division is committed to be the most trusted supplier of bio-pharmaceuticals worldwide. Our facilities, along with our external contractors, suppliers, and partners, create an interdependent global manufacturing network that’s committed to delivering a high quality, reliable supply to customers and patients on time, every time.

**Who we are **

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, 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 is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us — and start making your impact today.

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encoura