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By collaborating with our forward-thinking engineering team, you'll play a key role in accelerating the delivery of medicines to the world. Your innovative ideas and proactive actions will help us imagine new possibilities and bring them to life, ensuring that vital medications reach those in need more swiftly and efficiently. Your contributions will be instrumental in enhancing manufacturing information systems, boosting success rates, and ensuring zero downtime. By integrating manufacturing processes, operational knowledge, equipment control, and data into cohesive systems, you will enforce seamless operations across various departments. Your dedication will be pivotal in meeting project objectives and goals, fostering a collaborative team environment, and driving your colleagues towards success.\nThe Automation Engineer is a member of the Site Digital & Automation Team and is responsible for supporting automation operations, maintenance, and lifecycle activities for site automation and digital systems supporting manufacturing operations. This role provides hands-on technical support to ensure production continuity, system reliability, validated state, and regulatory compliance, working closely with Operations, Engineering, and Core Digital & Automation partners.\nWhat You Will Achieve\nIn this role, you will:\nSupport day-to-day operation and technical performance of production-critical automation and digital systems to maintain system reliability and production continuity.\nTroubleshoot automation system issues and support investigations, deviations, unplanned events, escalation, recovery, and root-cause data gathering.\nMaintain automation systems in a validated and compliant state by following established change management, validation, engineering, and documentation practices.\nDevelop and maintain lifecycle documentation, including standard operating procedures, system specifications, change records, incident documentation, and resolution steps.\nOperate and support control systems and automation infrastructure, including DCS, PLC, SCADA, HMI, and PC-based production systems.\nSupport the installation, testing, commissioning, and implementation of automation system and software changes using approved processes and coding standards.\nParticipate in business continuity planning, system recovery testing, regulatory inspections, and audits to support operational resilience and compliance.\nCollaborate with Operations, Engineering, and Digital and Automation partners on cross-functional problem-solving, standardization, and continuous improvement initiatives that enhance system reliability and performance.\nExecute Good Manufacturing Practices and verification protocols.\nProvide continuous 24x7x365 support for automation systems.\nMonitor and identify issues to develop preventative solutions.\nSupport the development of Preventive Maintenance Procedures for process control systems.\nAdhere to safe work practices consistently.\nContribute to project milestones, organize work to meet deadlines, and communicate progress and issues to peers.\nLearn and apply basic team effectiveness skills within the immediate Work Team.\nMake decisions to resolve basic problems with limited options and decision-making authority, under supervisor's direction.\nWork in a structured environment using established procedures, seeking guidance from colleagues, with regular reviews for technical judgment, completeness, and accuracy, relying on the supervisor's judgment.\nHere Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)\n Applicant must have a bachelor's degree with 0+ years of experience; OR an associate's degree with 4 years of experience; OR a high school diploma (or equivalent) and 6 years of relevant experience\nHands-on experience with engineering design and validation\nDemonstrated organizational skills to meet project task deadlines effectively\nExcellent communication and interpersonal skills\nExperience with automated systems and equipment\nKnowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices\nAbility to provide 24x7x365 support for automation systems\nBonus Points If You Have (Preferred Requirements)\nExperience supporting automation control systems in pharmaceutical industry engineering\nKnowledge of automation systems such as PLC, SCADA, and HMI.\nFamiliarity with Preventive Maintenance Procedures for process control systems\nAbility to monitor issues and develop preventative solutions\nExperience with manufacturing information systems\nExcellent judgment and decision-making skills\nExperience using common AI tools, including generative technologies such as ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, to support problem solving and enhance productivity. Demonstrated curiosity for exploring how these tools can improve outcomes and understanding of responsible AI practices, including risk management and ethical use\nWork Location Assignment: On Premise\nThe annual base salary for this position ranges from $68,600.00 to $114,300.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 7.5% of the base salary. We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life’s moments. Benefits offered include a 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution, paid vacation, holiday and personal days, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. Learn more at Pfizer Candidate Site - U.S. Benefits | (uscandidates.mypfizerbenefits.com). Pfizer compensation structures and benefit packages are aligned based on the location of hire. The United States salary range provided does not apply to Tampa, FL or any location outside of the United States.Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.\nCandidates must be authorized to be employed in the U.S. by any employer.\nU.S. work visa sponsorship (such as TN, O-1, H-1B, etc.) is not available for this role now or in the future.\nSunshine Act\nPfizer reports payments and other transfers of value to health care providers as required by federal and state transparency laws and implementing regulations. These laws and regulations require Pfizer to provide government agencies with information such as a health care provider’s name, address and the type of payments or other value received, generally for public disclosure. Subject to further legal review and statutory or regulatory clarification, which Pfizer intends to pursue, reimbursement of recruiting expenses for licensed physicians may constitute a reportable transfer of value under the federal transparency law commonly known as the Sunshine Act. Therefore, if you are a licensed physician who incurs recruiting expenses as a result of interviewing with Pfizer that we pay or reimburse, your name, address and the amount of payments made currently will be reported to the government. If you have questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact your Talent Acquisition representative.\nEEO & Employment Eligibility\nPfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Pfizer is an E-Verify employer. This position requires permanent work authorization in the United States.\nPfizer endeavors to makewww.pfizer.com/careers accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process and/or interviewing, please . This is to be used solely for accommodation requests with respect to the accessibility of our website, online application process and/or interviewing. Requests for any other reason will not be returned.\nTo learn more about acceptable and prohibited uses of AI during the recruitment process, please review our candidate AI-use guidelines available on Pfizer Careers.\nEngineering","description_format":"text","description_chars":8717,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":6,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"high_school","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Relocation assistance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":true,"industries":["Prescription Drugs","Oncology Therapeutics","Infectious Disease Therapeutics"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-14T23:06:33Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":28,"reasons":["conf:2","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-15T05:46:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":114300,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/pfizer-automation-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/pfizer-automation-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-15T16:18:07Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":24857,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-16T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3480},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3480"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fpfizer-automation-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fpfizer-automation-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fpfizer-automation-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/pfizer-automation-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fpfizer-automation-engineer"}]}