Senior MES Solutions Engineer (Manufacturing) - Zurich, Switzerland

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Job ID R0000722
Date posted 04/10/2018
Location:Zurich, Switzerland

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Job Description

Are you looking for a patient-focused, innovation-driven company that will inspire you and support your career? If so, be empowered to take charge of your future at Takeda. Join us as a Senior MES Solutions Engineer (Manufacturing)in our Zurich, Switzerland office.

Takeda is a global pharmaceutical leader with more than 30,000 professionals working together across more than 70 countries. We have an unwavering dedication to put people first and we live our values of Takeda-ism: Integrity, Fairness, Honesty, and Perseverance. We are united by our more than 230-year legacy of research-based pharmaceuticals and our mission to strive toward Better Health and a Brighter Future for people worldwide through leading innovation in medicine. 

Here, everyone matters and you will be a vital contributor to our inspiring, bold mission. At Takeda, you will make an impact on people’s lives – including your own. 

A Typical Day Will Include:

As a Senior MES Solutions Engineer (Manufacturing)working on the Manufacturing Execution Systems Team, you will be empowered to lead analysis, define and establish design of all technical aspects or provide technical expertise for IT solutions on intermediate and large complexity IT systems and/or projects within area of expertise. Maintain and use knowledge of solutions and IT landscape to explore and identify possible solutions related to defined technical problems and, find opportunities to improve business solutions support. Maintain and partly create elements of complex solutions.

Accountabilities

• Identify and execute functional and technical designs for assigned projects within Manufacturing IT.


• Identify solutions and solve complex problems within the implementation and maintenance of the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) from Werum PAS-X.


• Maintain Key User and End User training material and training concept needs remotely or locally as needed.


• Influence and participate in an MES Community of Practice, sharing best practice and identify challenges and opportunities globally.


• Ability to work cross functionally and manage key relationships across Global Manufacturing and Supply, IS/IT and, local site subject matter experts. 


• Maintain and influence  MES Deployment and Run-Phase: Go-live, Hypercare, 2nd/3rd level support as needed.


• Provide technical leadership to the Manufacturing Execution System Community with a focus on complex IT solutions within the Manufacturing systems landscape.


• Technical leadership within an MES Center of Excellence, supporting the design, build, validation and, deployment of a template-based MES approach.


• Design and develop Master Data and MBR design concepts and guidelines within the PAS-X template.


• Use knowledge of manufacturing and MES systems to solve business problems and identify robust technical solutions.


• Participate in and impact a globally aligned MES Center of Excellence, governance and, lifecycle management approach, supporting a standard and consistent solution for Manufacturing Execution globally.


• Expertise in the IT infrastructure necessary to support the fully integrated PAS-X MES solution, including infrastructure, end user devices, and thin-client solutions.

Key Capabilities

Required:

• Bachelor Degree or equivalent work experience.


• 3+ years of Pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or Process Industry experience.


• 3+ years of design, configure, and implementation of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) or Process Automation solutions.


• Experience in the design or operation of an MES Template-based approach.


• Experience utilizing Plant Information Management System / Process Historian within a Manufacturing Systems data architecture. 


• Experience with Validation concepts and MES IQ/OQ


• Has expertise and knowledge across a variety of manufacturing operations management standards and interface specifications: ISA 95 & 88, OPC DA/HA/UA, B2MML


• Access to transportation to attend meetings.


• Ability to fly to meetings regionally and globally.

Preferred:

• Master's Degree.


• Experience with the design and development of pharmaceutical life sciences software or solutions.


• Familiarity with regulated systems – high level understanding of computer systems validation.


• Agile (Scrum)

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