Process Control Engineer

Job Title : Technical Lead – Process Control Systems

Location : Foster City, Onsite (5 days a week)

Duration : Long-term Contract

Job Summary :

We are looking for an experienced professional who will be responsible for the administration of Rockwell FactoryTalk-based process control systems and Inductive Automation's Ignition-based process control and environmental monitoring systems. The candidate should have hands-on experience deploying, configuring, and troubleshooting these systems in a Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) environment, with a good understanding of FDA regulations. This role focuses on deploying system updates, administering system security, resolving technical issues, and ensuring system reliability under the direction of a System Manager.

Key Responsibilities :

• Perform periodic system maintenance activities such as System Maintenance, Server Maintenance, System Audit Trail Review, User access reviews and coordinating with IT and drive completion of server maintenance.
• Monitor system performance, identifying bottlenecks and working with system manager to implement solutions to optimize system UI / UX. Perform periodic system health checks.
• Validate compatibility of OS patches with the application and co-ordinate with IT for installation of patches and perform post-patch verification testing on a periodic basis.
• Work with the System Manager to evaluate application patches on a periodic basis, perform installation of approved patches and assist Validation Engineers in regression testing following patch installation.
• Administering system security and access control such as creating, managing and updating user accounts within the system environments per applicable procedures.
• Collaborating with the System Manager to create and maintain training content and provide training to users requesting access.
• Troubleshoot and resolve hardware, software issues and collaborate with IT to resolve network-related issues impacting system availability and performance.
• Provide technical support during change management and assist automation engineers and / or system integrators in deploying changes to systems.
• Provide technical support for validation engineers performing annual backup and restore testing as well as disaster recovery testing.
• Assist validation engineers in installation, operational and performance testing as well as perform IQ / OQ / PQ testing, when required.

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