Senior/Manager, Automation Engineering (cGMP) - Project Farma

Description

The company has spent over 80+ years in science and works with commercial, government, academic and healthcare clients on its analytical solutions and OneSource services.

Its Digital Transformation and Automation (DT&A) practice is growing and is looking for candidates with 10-20+ years of relevant experience.

You would live in one of the company's primary markets and be willing to travel within the country for client projects. Primary markets include, but are not limited to, Boston, Philadelphia, DMV, Northern New Jersey, Chicago, Indianapolis, Columbus, St Louis, Kansas City, Raleigh-Durham, Houston, Dallas, Boulder, Portland, San Francisco, San Diego and Los Angeles.

The company runs high-quality life sciences projects across the full lifecycle, with the aim of getting life-changing therapies to patients sooner.

Team members build trust with clients, deliver a strong customer experience, and use data-driven insight to find business opportunities and support planning, cost, schedule and performance.

The role supports financial performance, operational efficiency and continuous improvement, and includes mentoring, knowledge sharing and professional development for others.

Everyone is expected to be curious, personable and unselfish, with a patient-focused, people-first approach.

Responsibilities

• Give technical direction to the people on your assigned project team.
• Help build a welcoming, inclusive team where everyone takes part in discussions.
• Bring improvement ideas for DT&A and the company's wider strategy to leadership.
• Lead medium-sized projects, or a scope of work within large projects.
• Build close working relationships with clients, third-party vendors and system integrators.
• Help define scope, manage change and handle client communications.
• Look for chances to expand the company's work with each client.
• Keep broadening your knowledge across all areas of digital transformation and automation.
• Develop project execution and configuration strategies.
• Learn how automation projects are estimated, including schedule, hours and tasks.
• Resolve moderately complex operational and people-related problems.
• Mentor and coach the engineers working on your project.
• Monitor emerging technologies and assess their strategic impact on the business.
• Encourage teams to try new methods, tools and industry developments.
• Spot execution risks early and act on them.
• Make sure work meets global regulatory standards, including GMP, FDA, ISO and EHS.
• Promote a culture of safety, quality and continuous improvement.
• Review deliverables for quality and compliance before they go to clients.
• Fix quality issues through coaching and process improvement.
• Weigh schedule, quality and client priorities when making decisions.
• Plan team utilization and workload to meet billability goals.
• Escalate high-risk decisions at the right time.
• Oversee quality assurance, risk management and compliance across all DT&A work.

Requirements

• Apply advanced technical knowledge and professional expertise to your work.
• Look for better ways of working, adapt to change and back new ideas.
• Stay professional with clients and colleagues under pressure, and escalate appropriately.
• Show self-awareness and put the company's mission ahead of your ego.
• Communicate clearly and early, and keep clients openly aligned.
• Deliver reliably, manage competing priorities and aim for high-quality results.
• Stay open to new ideas, feedback and change.
• A bachelor's degree, and/or a master's, in life sciences, engineering, regulatory or a related field, or equivalent experience in quality assurance, cGMP facility start-up, regulatory assurance, relevant military service or professional services.
• 10-15+ years of experience in automation and digital systems in GMP life sciences (biotech, pharma, ATMP).
• Expert-level experience in at least one of process control, MES or digital systems platforms.
• Willingness to travel as client assignments require.
• Preferred: strong communicator and influencer across engineering, quality, IT/OT and manufacturing.
• Preferred: structured thinker with advanced troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Preferred: able to manage multiple priorities in a high-pressure, regulated environment.
• Preferred: demonstrated leadership and mentoring abilities.

Conditions

You must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. The company will not sponsor work visas now or in the future.

This position may require significant travel to meet project and business needs.

The company cannot employ anyone with an invalid driver's license.

The annual compensation range for this full-time role is $100,000 - $199,000. Final base pay depends on internal equity, work location, and individual qualifications such as job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Locations include Boulder, CO, Cambridge, MA, Columbus, OH and Concord, NC, plus customer sites in AL, CA, CO, DC, FL, GA, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, MO, NC, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, TX and VA, and 20 more locations.