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Purpose:

This is an excellent opportunity to develop and advance your career while working in a proactive and motivating team environment. This role affords you the opportunity to prove your leadership skills in an emerging area critical to the success of entire organization.

The BTS Site Technical Lead role in BLI, Irvine CA is critical to success of overall manufacturing operations by ensuring that IT systems and processes are maintained, compliant, secure and enable efficient and effective operations. A successful candidate will provide end-to-end technical solution leadership and business process alignment through the delivery and maintaining of Manufacturing and Lab Operational Information and liaise with Automation systems. The role will liaise with Global/Enterprise applications and Infrastructure services team ensuring successful delivery of the site’s infrastructure information systems. This role also advocates on behalf of business stakeholders to ensure IT services meet their business priorities and needs, while improving operations and executing projects in a fast paced, multi-disciplined, cross-functional team environment. This role includes a hands-on technical component to build, deploy, manage, and support manufacturing and laboratory GxP systems, as well as site infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical expertise and day to day technical support to control systems, lab systems OT and IT systems. Responsibilities include adhering to change control/management, configuration control, compliance to system/data security policies and data integrity, patching, upgrades, backups, validation and qualification support, and user administration/management.
• Provide expert guidance on new technologies and emerging IT & automation trends for process and business reengineering.
• Liaise with Global Enterprise, Infrastructure and Quality system teams ensuring high standards of service delivery and engage to influence continuous improvement opportunities for site operations.
• Ensure successful integration milestones are achieved while minimizing business impact and disruption of manufacturing operations.
• Ensure security, compliance and data integrity regulatory standards are maintained across all site technology systems.
• Support and provide domain expertise to site on GxP, data integrity, data Security as well as internal & external audits.
• Facilitate internal resources and outside vendors in developing technical solutions for manufacturing and laboratory systems. Interface with equipment vendors to ensure successful machine delivery, integration, and manufacturing validation.
• Support product, platform, and cost improvement programs by delivering qualified systems and acquisition software, machine controls and PLC/SCADA software. Interface with SQA, QA and Operations groups to successfully validate software systems.
• Generate & Maintain documentation (SOP’s & Technical Documentation) for full GMP validation and operation, including documentation of changes made.
• Contribute to the Automation & IT Business Strategy
• 10% required travel between Bioscience Laboratories, Campbell (BSL) and Bioscience Laboratories, Irvine (BLI) locations.