Senior Foxboro DCS Engineer – Pharma/Biotech

Cognizant; Cork; On-site; EUR 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is hiring a Senior Automation Engineer to support a multinational biotech client in Cork. You will design, configure, test, commission, troubleshoot, and perform change control on DCS systems with Foxboro, ensuring GDP/CSV alignment.

The role requires experience in Pharma/Biotech industries, DCS/PLC design, and strong leadership and communication skills to guide project delivery and validation efforts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical, Electrical or Bio-Process Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years' experience as an Automation/Control Systems/Software Engineer or related occupation.
• Experience designing, implementing and supporting automation solutions for Pharma/Biotech industries.
• Good knowledge of GAMP lifecycle and quality management processes in pharma.

Responsibilities

• Study functional requirements and control strategies for automation systems.
• Provide automation scopes and estimates for planning automation projects.
• Lead delivery of DCS projects from planning to design, implementation, testing and close-out.
• Lead teams to deliver project scopes and support project managers with schedules and stakeholder communications.
• Define testing requirements and supervise testing per procedures; prepare test cases.
• Maintain validated state of site control systems per Lilly quality standards.
• Design, build, configure and validate Foxboro DCS applications and software (Alarm Manager, FoxView Environments, Access Levels).
• Configure Pi Vision displays.

Skills

Automation engineering

DCS Foxboro

GAMP

Pharma/biotech

Project leadership

PLC/DCS software

Education

Bachelor's degree in Chemical, Electrical or Bio-Process Engineering

Tools

Foxboro DCS

Pi Vision

Alarm Manager

FoxView

Job description

Cognizant is hiring a Senior Automation Engineer to support a multinational biotech client in Cork. You will design, configure, test, commission, troubleshoot, and perform change control on DCS systems with Foxboro, ensuring GDP/CSV alignment.

The role requires experience in Pharma/Biotech industries, DCS/PLC design, and strong leadership and communication skills to guide project delivery and validation efforts.