Senior MES Engineer – Emerson Syncade (Pharma Manufacturing)

SimoTech; Cork; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

SimoTech has a new opportunity for an experienced MES Engineer to join our team onsite in Cork campus, supporting a global pharmaceutical organisation.

The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years’ experience with Emerson Syncade across the project lifecycle in the life sciences industry, with strong GMP knowledge and a track record of developing, testing, and integrating MES recipes and interfaces with DCS/SCADA/ERP systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of MES engineering experience in life sciences.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, CS, life sciences, or similar.
• Strong GMP process understanding across MES lifecycle.
• Experience delivering MES systems: design, config, testing.
• Experience with Emerson Syncade in API environment.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Ability to interface MES with DCS/SCADA/ERP.

Responsibilities

• Process mapping of manufacturing processes and development, implementation, and support of MES recipes.
• Take a leading role in recipe design sessions with Business Process SMEs.
• Carry out testing and change control activities related to the MES recipes changes.
• Develop, configure, and test MBRs from initial to final design.
• Design, configure, and implement interfaces between Syncade MES and third-party systems.
• Participate in MBR development design reviews including communicating cross-functionally with Automation, Lab Systems, ERP, and Quality groups.
• Provide support and technical expertise for the ongoing development of the site MES system in development of MBRs and improving the MES business processes.
• Take part in the training of all relevant EBR end-users and the ongoing development, review, and update of all relevant SOPs.
• Carry out troubleshooting and fault-finding where required for MES and all relevant interfaces as required.

Skills

MES Engineer experience

GMP manufacturing understanding

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, life sciences, or similar

Tools

Emerson Syncade

DCS/SCADA/ERP integrations

Job description

SimoTech has a new opportunity for an experienced MES Engineer to join our team onsite in Cork campus, supporting a global pharmaceutical organisation.

The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years’ experience with Emerson Syncade across the project lifecycle in the life sciences industry, with strong GMP knowledge and a track record of developing, testing, and integrating MES recipes and interfaces with DCS/SCADA/ERP systems.