Automation Project Engineer (m/f/d)

We are currently seeking an Automation Project Engineer (m/f/d) for our multipurpose production site in Muttenz, where engineer is responsible for planning and coordinating automation resources within a Capex project team organization. This person is also ensuring the link with the site engineering team, and the alignment with technical standards and production/customer requirements.

This includes:

• Leading a part of one or more engineering capital projects; this could be a technical responsibility across a whole project or a cross-functional responsibility for a part or phase of a project, thus ensuring the timely implementation of new or improved assets consistent with business requirements and within cost and safety parameters set by a project manager.
• Managing one or more minor engineering capital projects for automation infrastructure projects
• Providing automation technical leadership for projects

Accountabilities

• Working with a project manager to shape project scope. This often requires holding ambiguity before a project scope is being finalized in a Terms of Reference
• Estimating, executing and tracking costs and physical progress to ensure project delivery meets challenging time constraints and within established cost and safety parameters
• Coordinating the external resources that form a project team
• Identifying, specifying and monitoring the implementation of appropriate standards for engineering for design, procurement and construction to ensure compliance with company policy, local regulations and assets that are fit for purpose
• Producing an engineering definition package, fully describing the technical, process and operational requirements of the asset to be built and subsequently developing a detailed design which meets project success criteria

Other technical accountabilities:

• Planning of automation activities according project plan expectation milestones and scope
• Identifying and managing automation resources tasks plan
• Managing daily an automation programmers' team. (Documenting, developing software, ensuring quality, solving issues, monitoring weekly progress, reviewing with Process & Production team)
• Supporting the project manager to update the global project plan, reviewing weekly progress, workload, priorities and reviewing the scope changes
• Creating Software Design Specification (SDS) for CM, ME and Phases according site standards, user requirements (Process & Production) and Process Risk Analysis outputs (PRA)
• Organizing and managing FAT activities (Planning, documenting readiness & quality, resourcing, listing to-dos, validating)
• Supporting commissioning team (Planning, troubleshooting, improving/optimizing, changing) and production team for Recipe creation. Managing handover to Site engineering team & Production team
• Being responsible for Software design, testing, FAT Software + Hardware and SAT
• Supporting start-up of process control and safety system