Pharma IT/OT Automation Engineer - Lead Delivery & Compliance

SimoTech; Athlone; Sur place; EUR 65 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

SimoTech seeks experienced Automation Engineers (IT/OT) to support a major pharma greenfield expansion. You will cover PLC/SCADA, eSCADA, and MES systems, delivering end-to-end IT/OT integration across OT and enterprise IT environments.

Join a multidisciplinary team to ensure compliance, safety, and operational readiness while collaborating with manufacturing, validation, cybersecurity, and global IT teams to enable scalable automation infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Automation, Electrical Engineering, IT, Computer Science, or related discipline.
• Minimum 3–5 years' experience delivering IT/OT projects, ideally in pharma or regulated manufacturing environments.
• Demonstrated understanding of IT/OT delivery methodologies, project governance, controls, and reporting frameworks.
• Experience across multiple IT and OT technologies, including PLC, SCADA, process systems, and networking, with an emphasis on integration projects.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to communicate across technical and operational teams, including leadership.
• Proven experience with GAMP principles, commissioning practices, change control, and operational readiness.
• Excellent facilitation, documentation, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Practical experience with automation platforms such as Siemens or Schneider PLC/SCADA, Aveva PI, ThinManager, Ignition, and MES solutions (e.g., PAS-X) is considered desirable.
• Familiarity with Active Directory, ITIL frameworks, and enterprise integration principles is considered desirable.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity controls, OT networking, and cloud/edge integration technologies is considered desirable.

Responsabilités

• Take ownership of IT/OT project work packages from initiation to handover, ensuring scope alignment, schedule control, resource management, and benefits realization.
• Coordinate with engineering, manufacturing, maintenance, IT security, vendors, and system integrators to develop aligned delivery plans.
• Lead requirements gathering and contribute to solution design for OT systems (PLC/SCADA/DCS, historians, MES) and relevant enterprise IT integrations (e.g., cloud platforms, data management solutions).
• Embed compliance requirements in delivery, including GxP change control, permit-to-work, validation readiness, and operational cutover planning.
• Manage procurement and vendor performance, including scope definition, acceptance criteria, delivery milestones, and change control.
• Oversee testing and commissioning activities such as FAT/SAT, UAT, documentation reviews, and operational handover activities.
• Support project governance routines and drive continuous improvement through lessons learned and risk management.

Connaissances

IT/OT delivery

GxP compliance

Stakeholder engagement

System integration

OT networking

Cloud integration

Validation readiness

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Automation or related

Outils

Siemens PLC/SCADA

Ignition

AVEVA PI

ThinManager

PAS-X

MES integration

Description du poste

SimoTech seeks experienced Automation Engineers (IT/OT) to support a major pharma greenfield expansion. You will cover PLC/SCADA, eSCADA, and MES systems, delivering end-to-end IT/OT integration across OT and enterprise IT environments.

Join a multidisciplinary team to ensure compliance, safety, and operational readiness while collaborating with manufacturing, validation, cybersecurity, and global IT teams to enable scalable automation infrastructure.