Controls Engineer

The name Sotera Health was inspired by Soteria, the Greek goddess of safety, and reflects the Company’s unwavering commitment to its mission, Safeguarding Global Health®.

Sotera Health Company is a leading global provider of mission-critical sterilization and lab testing and advisory services for the healthcare industry. With a combined tenure across our businesses of nearly 200 years and our industry recognized scientific and technological expertise, we help to ensure the safety of millions of patients and healthcare practitioners around the world every year.

Across our 64 facilities worldwide, we have over 3,000 employees who are dedicated to safety and quality. We are a trusted partner to more than 5,800 customers in over 50 countries, including more than 40 of the top 50 medical device companies and 9 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies.

Controls Engineer

Reporting to the Controls Engineering Manager, the Controls Engineer is responsible for supporting industrial control system endeavors throughout the Sterigenics network. The Controls Engineer can work independently and collaboratively, assist with developing the scope, schedule, and budget associated with system programming and controls projects, as well as effectively execute and complete projects safely, within budget, and on schedule. 

This role is fully remote and requires domestic and periodic international travel per business needs (approximately 40-60% travel). Collaboration with external and internal customers (Sales, Operations, EHS), requiring the ability to have diplomacy to work through differing priorities, project scope, and schedules. Ability to manage contractors in the capacity of supplying parts and services. A strong engineering background, with electrical competency is required for the successful candidate.

Duties and Responsibilities 

• Evaluate and implement technology improvements/advances inclusive of controls. 
• Work with project management and other engineering disciplines, managing the deployment of control systems for new processes and upgrades for existing systems as required. 
• Assist facility Maintenance Supervisors, General Managers and Regional Maintenance Managers in troubleshooting facilities problems related to control systems and help develop solutions using data driven decision making. 
• Improve facility reliability by managing and monitoring system controls and managing system lifecycles. 
• Work with Contractors, Project Managers, Technology Engineers, and Regional Maintenance Managers in a team approach to improve facility operations and systems. 
• Manage installation projects, to include budgeting, tracking, and providing purchase orders, and execute testing as needed to support objectives. 
• Understand, read, create, and debug code programming logic into PLCs, SCADA and HMI. 
• Develop, review, approve, and execute IQ and OQ documentation as related to software validation practices as required in the medical and/or pharmaceutical environment while ensuring compliance to all applicable standards related to technology including federal, state, local regulatory codes, and customer, operations, and corporate requirements. 
• Execute projects utilizing available internal resources, suppliers, and key subcontractors, as required. 
• Provide strategic oversight and management of applicable process control systems – PLCs, HMI applications, across all technologies in a scalable manner to ensure required upgrades to hardware and software are implemented and key project initiatives are supported. 
• Develop, control, and critically monitor all cost, scheduling, quality, and safety activities related to capital projects. 
• Liaison between different engineering groups – project management, R&D, EHS, and Quality personnel to support engineering initiatives. 
• Manage several projects simultaneously of different sizes and complexities. 

Safety

• Administrative / Exemplary 
  • Ensure all engineering and contractor activities are executed in consideration and compliance with applicable company EH&S standards. 

People/Personal 

• Strong interpersonal skills – ability to facilitate and resolve challenges/priorities amongst vested stakeholders. 
• Ability to operate in a matrixed organization without direct report management responsibilities. 
• Confident/Positive Demeanor 

Values 

• Exemplify company core values of Safety, Customer Focus, People, Integrity, Excellence. 
• Serve as an Engineering ambassador. 

Quality 

• Ensure all projects are executed using defined Engineering Change Management methodology. 
• Detect and prevent design errors. 
• Apply Root Cause Analysis to eliminate recurring sources of failure, support CAPA investigations. 
• Failure mode and effects analysis. 

General Technical 

• Strong technical writing skills to develop applicable test documentation to support projects. 
• Develop calculations in support of project design and equipment needs. Challenge third party technical designs. 

PLANT LOCATIONS 

• Multisite support 

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & SKILL REQUIRED:

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical, and Mechatronic Engineering preferred. 
• Preferred six to ten years of experience in related field, with proven autonomous technical and project management responsibilities. 
• Preferred two or more years of current equivalent industrial control system integration experience. 
• Comfort in executing responsibilities within a highly matrixed organization. 
• Solid business acumen. 
• Experience in the Pharmaceutical or Medical Device Industry dealing with FDA and/or other regulatory bodies. 
• Extensive knowledge with PLCs (standard and safety); HMI/SCADA applications; hardware configuration; VFDs; basic manufacturing network architecture methodologies and instrumentation with Allen Bradley product line. 
• Executing in an environment requires disciplined decision-making skills that considers and values project safety, quality, cost, schedules, and equipment performance requirements. 
• Experience with designing, specifying and reviewing systems compliant to IEC 61511 (safety instrumented systems). Functional safety engineering certification a plus.
• Experience integrating multiple vendor systems into one conveyance control system.
• Experience with initial set-up of data acquisition and historian systems such as AVEVA PI Historian, Schneider Ecostruxure, Aspen InfoPlus.21, Ignition Historian or FactoryTalk Historian.

Pay and Benefits

Salary Range: $92,000 - $149,000 per year, depending on experience.

Sotera Health offers a competitive benefits package that includes:

• Medical, Rx, Dental, Vision, Disability, Life Insurance, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401(k) program with Company match that immediately vests
• Paid holidays, vacation and sick time
• Free financial planning assistance
• Paid parental leave
• Education assistance
• Voluntary benefits including Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity and Pet Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or protected veteran status.  Sterigenics U.S. LLC takes affirmative action in support of its policy to employ and advance in employment individuals who are minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities.

VEVRAA Federal Contractor

Sotera Health goes to market through its three best-in-class businesses – Sterigenics®, Nordion® and Nelson Labs®. Sterigenics is a leading global provider of outsourced terminal sterilization and irradiation services for the medical device, pharmaceutical, food safety and advanced applications markets. Nordion is the leading global provider of Co-60 and gamma irradiators, which are key components to the gamma sterilization process. Nelson Labs is a global leader in outsourced microbiological and analytical chemistry testing and advisory services for the medical device and pharmaceutical industries.