Senior OT Engineer

Description

Work in the Global Automation & Digital function of the company's PDX-ISC unit, where you help modernise manufacturing operations and grow digital capabilities.

You report to the Head of IT/OT, Automation and Digitalization at the Oslo site and help improve process optimisation in a fast-growing business.

You manage the OT and IT network infrastructure at the Oslo site, keeping it compliant and well configured against industry standards. The systems you look after are critical to operations. You work with site stakeholders, system owners and global teams.

Responsibilities

• Keep the OT and IT network and its applications running and fix faults to protect uptime.
• Track infrastructure performance, compliance and ageing equipment to keep reliability high.
• Manage user accounts and groups, request certificates, set up GPOs and maintain DNS records.
• Add machines to the domain and install tools such as Veeam, Symantec and CheckMK.
• Respond quickly to monitoring alarms.
• Handle the onboarding and offboarding of applications under the security, risk and compliance framework.
• Find risks and improvement opportunities, and apply upgrades and patches where needed.
• Work with local and global teams to keep site OT systems compliant.
• Coordinate with external vendors on project delivery and ongoing support.
• Create, maintain and improve OT and system documentation to match best practice and industry standards.
• Take part in OT and IT projects, managing the related change documentation.
• Help project owners meet their requirements, including connecting new equipment to the existing site networks.
• Contribute to project schedules and document trackers for OT/IT connectivity goals.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in information systems, computer science or a related technical field, or at least 5 years of relevant IT experience.
• Proven IT/OT support experience in manufacturing, with a preference for pharmaceutical experience.
• Experience delivering IT projects and managing the lifecycle of systems.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with incident, problem, change or configuration management.
• Clear written and spoken communication, with the ability to engage and influence at every level of the organisation.
• Experience with VMware (ESXi) and Windows operating systems.
• Experience with a configuration management database such as ServiceNow or similar.
• Experience with network equipment such as switches and firewalls, including Palo Alto and Cisco.
• Experience with infrastructure and application monitoring tools such as SolarWinds or CheckMK.
• Experience working in a pharmaceutical manufacturing environment, including writing procedural controls for daily operations.
• Experience setting up and configuring Active Directory.
• Experience with disaster recovery and backup software such as Acronis.
• Knowledge of industrial communication protocols such as PROFINET, PROFIBUS, ASi bus, Modbus RS485/TCP/IP and OPC DA/UA.
• A strong team player who works well in multicultural, multidisciplinary teams.
• Able to resolve conflicting priorities in line with business needs.
• Able to explain technical topics to people with less technical knowledge.
• Able to work independently as well as a core member of a team.

Conditions

The role is mainly based on site in Oslo.

Relocation assistance is not provided.

The list of duties is not exhaustive, and management may change the role or assign other tasks.

Benefits

• Pay and benefits are described by the company as in line with a large global organisation.
• You get access to career opportunities in a culture focused on care, collaboration and support.