# Automation Engineer

Role Overview We are seeking an Automation Engineer to manage and maintain factory automation systems, ensuring reliable operations, optimized processes, and accurate real-time data for decision-making. This role includes implementing new automation projects, troubleshooting, preventive maintenance, and lifecycle management across production systems. Key Responsibilities Automation Systems & Operations Implement, maintain, and troubleshoot automation, process control, and supervision systems (PLCs, SCADA/HMI, MES, historians, industrial networks). Support preventive and corrective maintenance to maximize system uptime and reliability. Manage lifecycle of automation assets, including obsolescence planning, backups, and disaster recovery procedures. Process Improvement & Technology Evaluate and implement new technologies to enhance automation capabilities and production efficiency. Standardize systems and reduce complexity to ensure traceability, data integrity, and operational continuity. Compliance & Cybersecurity Ensure automation systems comply with regulatory, quality, and cybersecurity standards. Support operational audits, validation, and documentation of automation systems. C

- **Id**: 3853493
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/planet-pharma-automation-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Yamagata, Japan
- **Countries**: JP
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-28T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T21:27:49Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 71
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2373
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Information Security, Biotechnology

## Company

- **Id**: 4467183
- **Name**: Planet Pharma
- **Domain**: planet-pharma.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/planet-pharma>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Schema

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 11
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 15
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Technologies

- **OPC UA** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 71

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

### Languages

- Language: Japanese; Level: Advanced (C1); Optional: no
- Language: English; Level: Advanced (C1); Optional: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T05:00:54Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 2
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.087
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 71
- **Expected fill days**: 15
- **Reasons**: conf:3, agency, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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