Automation Engineer OTIT Integration Specialist

Mentor Technical Group (MTG) provides a comprehensive portfolio of technical support and engineering solutions for the FDAregulated industry. As a global leader in life sciences engineering and technical services MTG has the knowledge and experience to ensure compliance with pharmaceutical biotechnology and medical device safety and efficacy requirements. With offices in Caguas PR Boston MA and San Francisco CA MTG supports life sciences clients across six global markets including the United States Puerto Rico the Dominican Republic Mexico Germany Canada and South America.

Job Description

Own the endtoend enterprise technical strategy for robotics and ASRS capabilities across the program defining reference architectures subsystem boundaries and interface patterns.
Establish performance and reliability targets design principles and scalable solutions across sites vendors and operating models.
Lead system integration across PLC/HMI safety PLCs robotics/ASRS controllers and WMS/WES/WCS/EMS platforms.
Define and govern interface control standards including message contracts state models exception handling and recovery strategies.
Drive architectural decisions across OT networks industrial protocols middleware availability and cybersecurity requirements.
Establish and lead technical governance processes including design reviews architecture boards and readiness gates.
Ensure traceability from business requirements through design testing and acceptance evidence.
Define and enforce engineering quality standards including naming conventions alarms diagnostics and technical documentation.
Lead commissioning and qualification strategies across FAT SAT integrated testing cutover and hypercare phases.
Drive complex issue triage root cause analysis and resolution during commissioning and startup.
Ensure achievement of throughput accuracy availability and recovery KPIs prior to system acceptance.
Act as the senior technical authority for robotics and ASRS OEMs and system integrators.
Shape technical scope assumptions and tradeoffs impacting cost schedule and system performance.
Review and approve technical submittals deviations and change requests with riskbased decision making.
Hold vendors accountable for documentation training spares and supportability aligned with SLAs.
Own the safetybydesign approach for automated systems including risk assessments safeguarding strategies LOTO Estops and safety validation.
Coordinate functional safety activities with site EHS and lead hazard closure and safety acceptance.
Ensure operational readiness includes maintainability training escalation paths and a reliability plan that sustains post golive performance.
Provide technical leadership for integrated schedules vendor dependencies and programlevel planning.
Forecast controls software and commissioning resource needs across project phases.
Identify and retire technical risks early including capacity resilience networking software and safety risks.
Establish reusable engineering standards and templates including ICDs control narratives alarm and diagnostic philosophy test protocols and asbuilt requirements.
Govern disciplined change control and configuration management across the lifecycle.
Drive clean handover to Operations and Maintenance with training troubleshooting playbooks spare parts strategies and sustaining engineering ownership.

Qualifications

Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Controls Engineering Computer Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience).
10 years of experience delivering industrial automation systems including robotics and/or ASRS solutions with significant responsibility for architecture integration and commissioning in warehouse distribution or manufacturing environments.
Recognized technical authority with a proven track record of driving architecture decisions and resolving highseverity crossdomain technical issues.
Deep experience authoring and governing controls and software deliverables at scale including reference architectures control narratives alarm and diagnostic standards test strategies and network/security architecture.
Expertlevel troubleshooting capabilities across electrical controls software and mechanical systems including leading issue triage and root cause analysis to closure.
Proven experience leading multivendor technical delivery including OEMs integrators and software providers through FAT SAT commissioning and turnover.
Strong knowledge of industrial networking and OT/IT integration (e.g. Ethernet/IP Profinet OPC UA VLANs time synchronization cybersecurity).
Demonstrated success delivering measurable performance outcomes (throughput accuracy uptime recovery) and establishing sustainment mechanisms beyond hypercare.
Exceptional communication documentation and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and mentor technical teams.

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Mentor Technical Group is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity genetic information national origin protected veteran status disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.