Automation Control System Engineer Supervisor (DCS/ PLC/Pharmaceutical)

Manpower Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Manpower Singapore is seeking an experienced automation professional responsible for the safety and reliability of the computerized control system across factory operations. You will drive maintenance procedures, ensure GMP/EHS compliance, and support audits to sustain product quality and site safety.

You will also manage automation projects, coordinate with suppliers, and lead deviation investigations to prevent recurrence and drive continuous improvements in production lines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree or higher in industrial automation or related field.
• Strong independent design, troubleshooting and optimization capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage maintenance procedures to ensure safety and reliability of the control system.
• Ensure GMP/EHS compliance and support audits for the control system.
• Improve maintenance procedures to keep factory operations and product quality stable.
• Oversee automation system construction for new projects, managing budget and schedule.
• Coordinate with automation suppliers to ensure project quality and safety.
• Lead deviation investigations to prevent recurrence and improve processes.

Skills

Control system design

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor degree in Industrial Automation

Tools

DCS

PLC

Job description

• Develop and manage maintenance procedures to ensure the safety and reliability of the computerized control system for continuous optimization and improvement to ensure product quality and sites safety.

• Ensure the computerized control system complies with the company's GMP/EHS requirements and is well implemented, supporting important audits such as QA or EHS.

• Responsible for formulating and improving the maintenance procedures of the automatic control system to ensure the normal operation of the factory and production, and ensure the product quality and factory safety.

• Manage the construction of automation control system for new construction projects and workshop renovation projects, control the budget and project progress, and meet automation requirement.

• Manage relevant automation control system suppliers and construction to ensure project quality and operation safety.

• Conduct deviation surveys related to the computerized control system on the workshop to solve the problem, and to prevent the recurrence of the problem.

• Review requests for changes to computerized control systems, assess quality and safety impacts, and implement required actions to mitigate change impacts.

• Able to develop automation transformation plans based on daily human errors and efficiency improvements summarized in the workshop.

• Formulate the design framework and test plan of the new workshop control system, to ensure that the control system of the new workshop can be launched on time, arrange manpower to cooperate with the commissioning work, and be able to find and solve the problems, founded in the commissioning Phase.

• Documents review, registration and archiving management of the automatic system to ensure the timeliness, accuracy and completeness of the records.

• Establish and optimize the operation process of the relevant control system, train and ensure strict implementation, report and solve problems in a timely manner.

• The subordinate staff management, cultivate and guide, and carry out effective assessment.

• Bachelor degree or above in Industrial automation and other related majors

• Proficient in configuration, programming, commissioning and maintenance of industrial automatic control systems (DCS, PLC, etc.).

• Good capability in independent control scheme design, troubleshooting and system optimization, with full-process experience in production line automation projects.