Automation Engineer
- Leiden
- 5000.00 - 7000.00
- 32-40 hours
- Project duration at least a year
- Bachelor degree
Client
Client helps life sciences companies navigate the most complex quality and compliance challenges, accelerating time to market, reducing costs, and turning regulatory requirements into a real competitive edge.
Client
Client helps life sciences companies navigate the most complex quality and compliance challenges, accelerating time to market, reducing costs, and turning regulatory requirements into a real competitive edge. At a turning point for the industry, they embrace both the ambition and the responsibility to lead this transformation, setting new standards for excellence, performance, and innovation worldwide?.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical / Industrial Automation / Mechatronics (or similar).
- 5+ years in (bio)pharma, food or chemical automation.
- Strong hands-on experience with Rockwell ControlLogix, FactoryTalk View SE and PlantPAx.
- Familiar with PharmaSuite or comparable MES; solid grasp of GMP and 21 CFR Part 11.
- Clear communicator in English (Dutch a plus); able to coach junior engineers and interface with vendors.
What do you get?
- Pension entitlement (15.9% employer contribution, 7.5% employee contribution)
- Collective WGA / WIA insurance
- NBBU collective labour agreement through equal remuneration
- 25 holidays days
- 8% holiday allowance
- 100% payment in case of illness in the first year
- Travel allowance per kilometer or through public transport
Duties
Supporting a leading biotech client in Leiden with the green-field automation of new clean-utility and tank-farm systems. We are looking for an experienced Automation Engineer who can own PLC/DCS design and small-scale integrations across Rockwell PlantPAx and PharmaSuite MES.Your impact:
- Configure and validate Rockwell ControlLogix PLC code for vendor skids (PW, Process Air, N?, denatured-ethanol & CIP chemical tank farm).
- Build and test PlantPAx applications for real-time monitoring and control of stick-built equipment.
- Implement recipe management and basic workflows in PharmaSuite, aligned with ISA-88/95.
- Deliver functional/design specs, FAT/SAT protocols and GAMP 5 compliant CSV documentation.
- Act as primary automation contact for process, QA and vendor teams; drive troubleshooting and continuous improvement.
