APG Pharma, a division of AppliedMaterials focusedon building analyticsfor PharmaceuticalManufacturing, is looking fora Scheduling Engineer.The engineerprovides Operations Research orDataScience expertiseas well as experience with informatics systems commonly found in the Pharma and Biopharma Industries. In this client focused role, you will support the team to innovate and improve pharmamanufacturing throughscheduling using optimization and simulation approaches.
You will be required to work closelywith our salesand engineering teams as well as with external process engineers and manufacturing scientists.You should haveprocess knowledge of pharmaceutical processes and be able to convey a technical message to a business audience. You will be expected to support both pre- and post- sales engagementsperforming a rangeof tasks from supporting a technical sales strategy for a new client, communicating the value of our software towards industry challenge, software installs, process model design, workflow design, data manipulation, and problem solving. Technical teaching and consulting are also part of the job.
Key Responsibilities
- Work with subject experts from operations, manufacturing and business teams to develop process understanding and knowledge of available data sources
- Leverage optimization approaches in combination with discrete-event based simulation to develop data-driven applications that support key business and operations processes
- Collaborate with experts from the data science, operations, manufacturing, supply chain and business units to validate and deploy models to improve business processes.
- Work interactively with the customer based on technical requirements, to build scheduling models that will be used to schedule manufacturing operations
- Implement technical solutions using our tools, and train the customer in using those tools to manage their facilities
We require a combination of hands-on experience in the pharma/biopharma industry with planning and scheduling expertise. The successful candidate must have:
- At least 3 years of experience in the pharma/biopharma industry or as a process engineer working with chemical or similar processes with a demonstrated ability in supply chain planning and production scheduling
- A proven ability to interact with clients, and explain technical details in laymen’s terms.
- Experience in three or more of the following areas:
- Processing (importing, cleaning, filtering) large data sets
- Developing and/or applying optimization and operations research methodologies
- Experience with optimization tools and frameworks (Pyomo, GAMS, Gurobi, etc.)
- Experience with discrete-event based simulation
- Developing and/or applying data modeling and machine learning methodologies
- Experience with statistical and mathematical modeling environments (R, Python, MATLAB, etc.)
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C#, C++.
- A working knowledge of systems, software packages and languages is preferred, including experience with products such as:
- Databases (PI System, Oracle, SQL, or similar)
- Data communication, interfacing (OPC DA/HDA/UA, relational database calls, etc.
- Data visualization (knowledge of various common platforms is preferred: TIBCO Spotfire, PI System visualization tools, custom UI development skills)
- MES, SAP, ELN, LIMS, SCADA, PLC, DCS, BES, PI Historian, AspenTech IP21, GE Proficy, etc.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
A Bachelor or Master’s degree in a relevant science or engineering discipline with 5 or more years of industry experience. (note: that a PhD in a relevant area could be considered equivalent to 3 years industry experience)
Bachelor's Degree
2 - 4 Years
Full time
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