Senior Systems Engineer

Position Summary

The Sr. Systems Engineer is responsible for defining, designing, integrating, and sustaining the digital and controls architecture supporting automated batching, liquid processing, and packaging operations. The role translates business, quality, process, and operational needs into clear software and functional requirements; establishes PLC, HMI/SCADA, batch-control, data, and reporting capabilities; and integrates equipment and information systems across processing and packaging. This position creates process models, visual dashboards, automated reports, and performance-monitoring tools that provide accurate, timely insight into batch execution, product quality, equipment performance, material flow, and production output. The Systems Engineer also supports automated batch records and Process Analytical Technology (PAT), ensuring solutions are reliable, secure, maintainable, data-integrity compliant, and aligned with site automation and manufacturing strategies.

This position will require domestic travel up to 10% of the time.

What You'll do as a Sr. Systems Engineer

Lead user, business, functional, software, interface, and data-requirement definition for automated batching, liquid processing, packaging, utilities, and supporting manufacturing systems.

Develop and maintain control-system architecture and capability standards for PLCs, HMIs, SCADA, batch engines, safety interfaces, motion, vision, robotics, weigh systems, instrumentation, and packaging-line controls.

Define equipment and system integrations across processing and packaging, including machine-to-machine communications and interfaces with MES, LIMS, historians, ERP, CMMS, warehouse, serialization, and reporting platforms.

Ensure recipes, units, phases, equipment modules, procedural control, exception handling, electronic signatures, and batch-record structures comply with regulatory requirements, Medical Devises.

Design and support automated batch records, electronic workflow, material verification, parameter capture, alarm/event history, genealogy, review-by-exception, and complete audit trails.

Develop the PAT strategy for in-line, on-line, or at-line measurements; integrate analyzers and soft sensors; establish data contextualization, multivariate monitoring, control limits, and feedback or feed-forward control where appropriate.

Create process and capacity models, dashboards, visual management displays, and scheduled reports for batch cycle time, yield, throughput, OEE, downtime, quality trends, material consumption, schedule attainment, and packaging output.

Specify and govern automation data models, tag structures, naming conventions, time synchronization, master data, historian collection, SQL/reporting logic, data retention, and data-integrity requirements.

Lead controls and software design reviews, supplier technical evaluations, FAT/SAT, commissioning, startup, validation/qualification, performance testing, and turnover of integrated systems.

Troubleshoot complex controls, network, software, instrumentation, data, and integration issues; perform root cause analysis; manage changes; maintain backups and disaster-recovery plans; and train Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Quality, and IT/OT support personnel.

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The Experience, Skills, and Abilities needed

Required

Bachelor’s Degree – Systems, Controls, Electrical, Computer, Chemical, or related Engineering

Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of progressive experience in industrial automation, systems engineering, controls engineering, manufacturing software, or OT systems within batch processing and/or high-speed liquid packaging.

7+ years of experience in Industrial automation or manufacturing systems engineering

5+ years of experience in PLC/HMI/SCADA design and programming

5+ years of experience in System integration across process and packaging equipment

4+ years of experience in Batch control, recipe management, and ISA-88 application

4+ years of experience in Software/functional requirements and design specifications

4+ years of experience in Manufacturing data, dashboards, visualization, and reporting

3+ years of experience in Commissioning, FAT/SAT, startup, and lifecycle support

3+ years of experience in Automated batch records, MES/eBR, or electronic workflow

2+ years of experience in Process Analytical Technology and analyzer integration

Preferred

3+ years of experience in Chemical, specialty chemical, pharmaceutical, food/beverage, personal care, or regulated batch manufacturing

2+ years of experience in Liquid filling, capping, labeling, coding, inspection, case packing, palletizing, or warehouse interfaces

3+ years of experience in Rockwell Automation or Siemens PLC platforms; FactoryTalk, WinCC, Ignition, or comparable SCADA/MES tools

2+ years of experience in OPC UA, EtherNet/IP, PROFINET, MQTT, REST APIs, SQL, historians, and industrial data platforms

2+ years of experience inISA-95, IEC 62443, GAMP 5, 21 CFR Part 11, or ALCOA+ data-integrity practices

1+ years of experience in Advanced analytics, multivariate analysis, soft sensors, or model-predictive control

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Pay range for this opportunity is $107,525.00 - $139,150.00. This position is eligible for bonus participation.

Minimum pay rates offered will comply with county/city minimums, if higher than range listed. Pay rates are based on a number of factors, including but not limited to local labor market costs, years of relevant experience, education, professional certifications, foreign language fluency, etc.

STERIS offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits portfolio. Click here for a complete list of benefits: STERIS Benefits

Open until position is filled.

STERIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to ensure that persons are recruited, hired, trained, transferred and promoted in all job groups regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state or local law. We are not only committed to this policy by our status as a federal government contractor, but also we are strongly bound by the principle of equal employment opportunity.