Instrument & Controls Engineer

Our Frederick Manufacturing Center (FMC) creates life-changing medicines for people around the world and has been recognized by our local community as being a Top 50’ Business in Frederick and awarded Frederick County’s ‘Best Place to Work’. This distinctive biologic manufacturing facility, with over 800 employees, makes a direct contribution to treating people with cancer, respiratory and autoimmune conditions across the globe.  We work hard to deliver life-changing medicines to patients, and we take time to have fun and celebrate our accomplishments. From catered site festivities to competitive events, community outreach activities, environmental and wellness showcases and team-building functions, we take time to recognize our achievements and celebrate our diversity.  We are dedicated to creating a culture of inclusion and collaboration and are committed to continuous learning by offering ongoing skill building and training for our staff.  Fueled by our aspiration to deliver accelerated growth for our company and to make people’s lives better, there’s never been a more exciting time to join the team and shape the future of AstraZeneca Operations. The Instrument Engineer is responsible for the lifecycle management, reliability, specification, troubleshooting, configuration, and technical ownership of process control instrumentation used across manufacturing, laboratory, utility, and facility systems. The Instrument Engineer will provides the field-device expertise needed to ensure that instrumentation and its control-system interfaces perform as intended. The role supports existing DeltaV and Rockwell process control systems, Siemens EMS/BMS, and new projects by applying engineering expertise to field instrumentation, analytical instruments, smart instruments, control-system interfaces, and associated hardware and software. The Instrument Engineer works closely with Automation Engineering, Process Engineering, Facilities Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Maintenance, Manufacturing, Metrology, Quality, and external suppliers to ensure that instrumentation is appropriately selected, installed, configured, maintained, documented, and operated in accordance with design requirements and applicable GMP, safety, quality, and company standards. The Instrument Engineer serves as the technical owner for assigned instrumentation and is accountable for maintaining the associated engineering documentation, configuration records, approved software and firmware information, and recoverable backups for smart or configurable instruments.   Job Responsibilities • In this role the Instrument & Controls Engineer will support stand alone instruments and instrumentation integrated with DeltaV or Rockwell platforms associated with Process manufacturing, facility, and central utilities equipment. In addition the role will support instrumentation and provide guidance to associated with the sites EMS/BMS system. • In this role the Instrument & Controls Engineer will support stand alone instruments and instrumentation integrated with the sites EMS/BMS system and support the EMS/BMS engineer during system design. • Troubleshoot analog, digital, smart, analytical, and networked instruments and their interfaces with distributed control systems, programmable logic controllers, building management systems, and other automation platforms. Diagnose issues involving field devices, wiring, junction boxes, barriers, signal conditioning, input/output hardware, communication networks, controllers, control logic, software configuration, and process conditions. • Provide technical leadership during instrument failures, recurring performance issues, communication faults, inaccurate measurements, device alarms, calibration failures, and instrument-related manu