# Automation & Instrumentation Engineer

**Company**: Pfizer
**Location**: Vizag, India
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

At Pfizer, we believe that every role contributes to our mission of improving patients' lives. Whether you are involved in the design and development of manufacturing processes for products or supporting the upkeep of systems, engineering is crucial to ensuring customers and patients receive the medicines they need.

In this role, you will:

- Contribute to moderately complex projects, managing time effectively to meet targets.

- Apply skills and knowledge to contribute to team efforts.

- Use judgment to modify methods and techniques as needed.

- Monitor and complete periodic reviews, including the validation master plan for automation engineering.

- Demonstrate exceptional planning, organizing, time management, and team participation skills.

- Take responsibility for routine and preventive maintenance, ensuring equipment and facilities operate safely and efficiently.

**Automation Responsibilities**

- Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Emerson DeltaV DCS systems.

- Develop and modify control modules, equipment modules, phases, and batch logic.

- Design and maintain DeltaV operator graphics, alarms, trends, and reports.

- Support DCS upgrades, migrations, patch management, and lifecycle activities.

- Perform system backups, restoration, and disaster recovery activities.

- Troubleshoot automation system failures and implement corrective actions.

- Support FAT, SAT, commissioning, startup, and plant shutdown activities.

- Optimize control strategies to improve process performance, quality, and productivity.

- Integrate DeltaV systems with PLCs, SCADA, Historians, and third-party systems.

- Ensure compliance with cybersecurity and automation standards.

**Instrumentation Responsibilities**

- Monitor and maintain field instruments such as pressure, temperature, flow, level, analytical instruments, and control valves.

- Troubleshoot instrumentation-related issues affecting plant operations.

- Review and update instrument datasheets, loop drawings, P&IDs, and instrument index documents.

- Support installation, testing, and commissioning of new instrumentation systems.

- Coordinate with maintenance and operations teams for instrument reliability improvements.

- Diagnose communication issues related to HART, Foundation Fieldbus, Profibus, Modbus, and other industrial protocols.

- Support control valve diagnostics and performance assessment.

- Participate in plant projects involving instrumentation and automation upgrades.

- Ensure instrumentation systems comply with safety, quality, and regulatory requirements.

- Manage instrument spares, technical specifications, and vendor interactions.

**Requirements**

- Bachelor's Degree in Instrumentation, Electronics, Electrical, or related Engineering discipline.

- Minimum 5+ years of experience in Automation & Instrumentation.

- Work Location Assignment: On Premise

## Skills

### Required
- Emerson DeltaV DCS systems
- control modules
- equipment modules
- phases
- batch logic
- DeltaV operator graphics
- alarms
- trends
- reports
- DCS upgrades
- migrations
- patch management
- lifecycle activities
- system backups
- restoration
- disaster recovery activities
- troubleshooting
- automation system failures
- corrective actions
- FAT
- SAT
- commissioning
- startup
- plant shutdown activities
- control strategies
- process performance
- quality
- productivity
- PLCs
- SCADA
- Historians
- third-party systems
- cybersecurity
- automation standards
- field instruments
- pressure
- temperature
- flow
- level
- analytical instruments
- control valves
- instrumentation-related issues
- instrument datasheets
- loop drawings
- P&IDs
- instrument index documents
- installation
- testing
- commissioning of new instrumentation systems
- instrument reliability improvements
- communication issues
- HART
- Foundation Fieldbus
- Profibus
- Modbus
- control valve diagnostics
- performance assessment
- instrumentation systems
- safety
- regulatory requirements
- instrument spares
- technical specifications
- vendor interactions

### Nice to have
- relevant pharmaceutical experience
- programming proficiency
- Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
- training others
- problem-solving skills
- AI tools
- generative technologies
- ChatGPT
- Microsoft Copilot

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