CSV Engineer - PLC / SCADA

Advanced Manufacturing Tech Solutions; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

AMTSOL seeks an experienced PLC/SCADA CSV Engineer to validate automation hardware, software, and interfaces for a pharmaceutical manufacturing project in Singapore. Expertly manage IQ/OQ/PQ, risk assessments, and validation reporting in a GMP data‑integrity framework.

You will qualify PLC/SCADA hardware and software, including PLC platforms and SCADA systems, and collaborate with CQV, IT/OT, and manufacturing teams to ensure system readiness and compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Engineering, Automation, or related field.
• Minimum 5 years in PLC/SCADA CSV in GMP-regulated environments.
• Experience qualifying automation hardware and validating PLC/SCADA code.
• Strong knowledge of GAMP 5, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, EU Annex 11, data‑integrity requirements.

Responsibilities

• Execute the CSV lifecycle for PLC and SCADA systems, including risk assessments, IQ/OQ/PQ, and validation reporting.
• Qualify hardware infrastructure (PLCs, I/O, HMIs, SCADA servers, networks, virtual environments).
• Validate PLC software and control logic (Ladder, FBD, ST, SFC, alarms).
• Validate SCADA apps (HMI graphics, alarms, historian, audit trails, security, electronic signatures).
• Support FAT, SAT, commissioning, qualification, handover, and changes.
• Verify data-integrity and security controls (user access, back-up, time sync).
• Assist cybersecurity, system hardening, and validated infrastructure controls.
• Coordinate testing with MES/OSI PI/ERP/DCS interfaces.
• Manage deviations, change controls, test discrepancies, vendor evidence, and documentation.

Skills

PLC programming

SCADA systems

CSV validation

GAMP 5

Regulatory knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related

Tools

Siemens PLC

Allen-Bradley/Rockwell

Schneider

Mitsubishi

WinCC

FactoryTalk

AVEVA/Wonderware

Ignition

Job description

AMTSOL is supporting a pharmaceutical manufacturing project in Singapore and is seeking a PLC/SCADA CSV Engineer to validate and qualify automation hardware, software, and system interfaces in compliance with GAMP 5, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, EU Annex 11, and GMP data‑integrity requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute the CSV lifecycle for PLC and SCADA systems, including risk assessments, specification review, traceability, IQ, OQ, PQ, regression testing, and validation reporting.
• Qualify hardware infrastructure including PLCs, I/O systems, HMI terminals, SCADA servers and workstations, industrial networks, managed switches, and virtualized environments.
• Validate PLC software and control logic, including Ladder Logic, Function Block Diagrams, Structured Text, Sequential Function Charts, alarms, interlocks, sequences, and recipes.
• Validate SCADA applications including HMI graphics, alarm management, historian functionality, audit trails, security, electronic signatures, data collection, reporting, and system interfaces.
• Support FAT, SAT, commissioning, qualification, system handover, and approved changes.
• Verify data‑integrity and compliance controls, including user‑account management, security roles, electronic signatures, backup/restore, and time synchronization.
• Support industrial cybersecurity, system hardening, and validated infrastructure controls where applicable.
• Support integration and interface testing with MES, OSI PI/AVEVA PI historian, ERP, DCS, and package‑equipment systems.
• Manage deviations, change controls, test discrepancies, vendor evidence, and validation documentation through closure.
• Coordinate with Automation, CQV, Quality, IT/OT, Manufacturing, vendors, and system‑integrator teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Automation, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of PLC/SCADA CSV experience within pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical‑device, or another GMP‑regulated environment.
• Proven experience qualifying automation hardware and validating PLC code and SCADA applications.
• Strong knowledge of GAMP 5, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, EU Annex 11, GMP data‑integrity requirements, and validation lifecycle documentation.
• Experience with one or more PLC platforms such as Siemens, Allen‑Bradley/Rockwell, Schneider, or Mitsubishi.
• Experience with SCADA platforms such as WinCC, FactoryTalk, AVEVA/Wonderware, Ignition, or iFIX.
• Working knowledge of industrial communications such as OPC, Profinet, Profibus, Modbus TCP/IP, or EtherNet/IP.

Preferred / Advantageous

• Experience in GMP manufacturing, utilities, packaging, or process‑automation systems.
• CQV or commissioning experience and exposure to industrial cybersecurity/system hardening.
• Knowledge of DeltaV qualification or CSV activities.
• Experience using electronic validation platforms such as Kneat.