Automation Project Engineer 1603
5 days ago
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland | Posted on 16/09/2025 • What is it like to work at SimoTech? With a strong collaborative teamwork culture based on respect, trust, and excellence, we play a critical partnering role to our clients’ life‑changing supply of products to patients. In return, there is an excellent salary, benefits, career progression, educational support and much more.
SimoTech has an opportunity for an experienced Automation Project Engineer for a pharmaceutical project based in Dublin. The successful candidate must have at least 5+ years’ experience supporting the automation aspects of manufacturing and packaging equipment in a GMP‑regulated environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide automation guidance and expertise to multi-disciplinary project team executing projects on Vial/Syringe Filling Lines, Packaging and Production environments.
- Deliver automation solutions for new SKIDs in clean utilities, ensuring robust, compliant, and efficient operation.
- Provide technical leadership and support to project teams throughout the project lifecycle, from design through commissioning.
- Configure, program, and troubleshoot Siemens PLCs and HMIs for SKID‑based systems.
- Generate and review engineering documentation, including User Requirement Specifications, Functional Design Specifications, and System Architectures.
- Contribute to project risk assessments and data integrity assessments and generation of validation documentation (Validation Plans, SAT & IOQ Protocols, Requirement Traceability Matrices).
- Execute IOQ protocols and support validation activities on‑site.
- Update standard operating procedures as required by project scope.
- Participate in equipment installation, root cause analysis, incident investigations, and troubleshooting of control systems.
- Provide technical input to change control processes.
- Ensure compliance with all relevant environmental, health, and safety regulations.
- Manage and interact with third‑party vendors to ensure equipment delivery meets quality, schedule, and specification requirements.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Computer Science, Chemical Engineering, Biotech Engineering, Physics & Instrumentation, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 5+ years’ relevant experience in automation engineering, ideally within biopharmaceutical or clean utilities environments.
- Proven hands‑on experience with Siemens PLC and HMI hardware/software (essential).
- Experience with SKID‑based automation systems in clean utilities (e.g., WFI, PW, clean steam, process gases) is highly desirable.
What SimoTech Can Offer
- Role provides a high degree of autonomy to allow the successful candidate to reach their full potential.
- Develop new skills and enhance technical ability by working with innovative technologies in a multi‑disciplinary environment.
- Opportunity to work with large corporate clients.
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