Building Automation Controls Engineer

Lonza is one of the world’s leading and most-trusted suppliers to the pharmaceutical, biotech and specialty ingredients markets. We harness science and technology to create products that support safer and healthier living and that enhance the overall quality of life.

* Responsible for providing instrumentation and controls support for the design, construction, start-up, operation, and maintenance of, spares for, and possible upgrades to, primarily the Building Automation System (BAS), and related/other typical water utilities (Cooling Tower, HVAC Chilled, Process Chilled, Softened, Hot, Potable, Waste/Neutralization) in a cGMP biotech large scale production facility. * Primary responsibility for accuracy of project, Panel Drawings, Instrument and I/O Lists. * Ensure projects are executed with a practical minimum number of unique instrumentation/automation spares for the site. * Ensure projects are executed with a practical minimum impact on Operations—preserving SOPs, Trainings, etc., already present where practical. * Participates in FATs, Commissioning and Validation efforts. Multi-week travel may be required on limited cases to oversee instrumentation implementations on larger modules. * Review and approve vendor instrument submissions. * May assist in Process Controls support. * Create, review and/or approve change controls as necessary for instrumentation and controls related changes. * Must be able to support large engineering projects with little direction. Interaction with outside consultants, contractors and support resources is required. * Must be able to document all work as required by cGMP and local/global procedures. **ALL LONZA BIOLOGICS EMPLOYEESHAVE THE FOLLOWING RESPONSIBILITIES:** * Quality should be the responsibility of all persons involved in Manufacturing. Adherence to cGMPs is required at all times during the manufacture of APIs. * All personnel are responsible fornotifying responsible management in a timely manner of regulatory inspections, serious GMP deficiencies, product defects and related actions (e.g. quality related complaints, recalls, regulatory actions, etc). * All personnel should practice good sanitation and health habits. * Personnel suffering from an infectious disease or having open lesions on the exposed surface of thebody should not engage in activities that could result in compromising the quality of APIs.

* 4 years’ experience in the design /operation of Building Automation Systems for Biopharmaceutical facilities. * 4 years’ experience with control systems (PLC, DCS, Loop controllers) desirable. * 4 years’ experience with DeltaV, Logix 500/5000, AutoCAD, Excel, SQL databases, Trackwise desirable. * Construction and coordination experience associated with theexecution of capital projects in an industrial environment * Practical experience in themanagement and coordination of engineering & construction management consultants, equipment vendors and contractors. * The position will complement the team of experienced HVAC staff and Building Automation System personnel. Knowledge of BAS controls systems is required, DeltaV and Rockwell Control/CompactLogix preferred).