Automation Engineer 2, MES

FUJIFILM Biotechnologies is building the future of bioproduction in Holly Springs, North Carolina. By end of 2025, we’ll open North America’s largest end-to-end CDMO biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility, offering drug substance production, fill-finish, and packaging under one roof.

We’re looking for passionate, mission-driven people to help us realize this exciting vision and deliver the next vaccine, cure, or therapy. We offer a dynamic work environment and we’re proud to cultivate a culture that will fuel your purpose, energy, and drive—what we call Genki. Ready to shape the future of medicine? Let’s transform healthcare together!

Holly Springs, North Carolina, combines small-town warmth with proximity to Raleigh’s thriving tech scene, making it the perfect blend of community and opportunity.

Fujifilm is globally headquartered in Tokyo with over 70,000 employees across four key business segments of healthcare, electronics, business innovation, and imaging. We are guided and united by our Group Purpose of “giving our world more smiles.” Visit: https://www.fujifilm.com/us/en/about/region/careers

• Spearheads the Automation team through activities, such as code configuration within several process areas and scope work using DeltaV
• Leads the development for various specification documents (e.g., user requirements specification (URS), functional specification (FS), design qualification (DQ), etc.)
• Supports global alignment of our implemented capabilities, maintaining and protecting our global platform concept Leads the development for various test protocols and functional testing documents (e.g., installation qualification (IQ), operational qualification (OQ), etc.)
• Plans and implements the technical direction for area of responsibility
• Leads small teams through Automation changes and Tech Transfers
• Makes complex decisions across single Automation systems
• Contributes to Automation system hardware and software designs
• Serves as on-call support for Automation inquiries and troubleshooting
• Collaborates with other departments, such as Manufacturing, Maintenance, and Validation
• Conducts training and presents information to team or other stakeholders
• Other duties, as assigned

• Personal ownership and proactive collaboration with external business partners and internal stakeholders
  
• Effective communication, both written and oral
  
• Advanced problem-solving skills
  
• Ability to effectively present complex information to others
  
• Ability to provide feedback to others, including leaders
  
• Ability to remain up to date on regulatory and quality requirements for manufacturing

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering or other relevant field
• 2 years of Automation, Instrumentation & Controls, or other relevant technical experience
• Preferred:
  • 3+ years of DeltaV MES (Syncade) experience (including exposure to behavior code, equipment tracking (ET) and event monitor (EM) configuration, basic DeltaV distributed control system (DCS) configuration concepts, SC consumer execution group configuration)
  • Previous experience within a pharmaceutical or GMP environment group configuration)

To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of FUJIFILM about this requisition. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at FUJIFILM via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of FUJIFILM, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by FUJIFILM for this requisition and a valid agreement with FUJIFILM is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the FUJIFILM agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.