# Automation Engineer III - Downstream/Buffer

Job Description Summary Ready to make a direct impact on the delivery of life-changing medicines? As an Automation Engineer III - Downstream/Buffer, you will support the automation systems that enable reliable, compliant, and efficient manufacturing operations. Working within GMP production environments, you will contribute to automation projects, troubleshoot control systems, support system improvements, and partner with cross-functional teams to enhance operational performance and quality. This role offers the opportunity to develop technical expertise while supporting critical manufacturing processes in a collaborative and fast-paced environment.Job Description Location: This position will be located in Durham, NC and will be an onsite role. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support for this role: please only apply if this location is accessible for you. Key Responsibilities: Support automation system design, configuration, maintenance, and lifecycle activities for Downstream/Buffer manufacturing operations. Provide technical support for DCS, BMS, MES, and associated control systems to ensure reliable plant operations. Participate in automation projects from design through

- **Id**: 4103673
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/novartis-automation-engineer-iii-downstreambuffer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Durham, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T22:12:17Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T22:12:17Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5093
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Oncology Therapeutics, Neurology & CNS Therapeutics, Immunology & Inflammation Therapeutics, Cardiometabolic Therapeutics

## Company

- **Id**: 5824
- **Name**: Novartis
- **Domain**: novartis.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/novartis>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 76
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.605
- **Repost share**: 0.053
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 26
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 98700
- **Max**: 183300
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 183300

## Technologies

- **21 CFR Part 11** — Optional: no
- **GMP** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T22:12:17Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 8 · green card filings: 2; Filings 12m: 8

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 25
- **Reasons**: conf:5, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T03:19:26Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 183300
- **Is top pay**: yes

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