Senior Controls and Automation Engineer

"Expect to grow", personally and professionally: At Siegfried, we offer exciting challenges and ample opportunities to showcase your talents. As a trusted and respected partner to the pharmaceutical industry, we uphold the highest standards in safety, quality and sustainability, while fostering a culture that empowers you to thrive. Join a rapidly expanding global company, where diverse perspectives and experiences come together in a collaborative environment. Here, you'll find a workplace that values both collective success and your individual contributions—offering long-term opportunities to grow and make an impact.

Your Role:  

Your Profile:

What You’ll Support
•    Automated aseptic drug product filling lines, inspection systems, and packaging equipment
•    Process equipment and critical utilities supporting manufacturing operations
•    PLCs, HMIs, SCADA systems, historians, audit trails, and industrial networks
•    Automation software, IT/OT systems, firmware, hardware, and associated instrumentation
•    GMP facility automation and site-wide control systems

What You’ll Do
•    Troubleshoot, maintain, and optimize automation systems across manufacturing and utilities
•    Support day-to-day GMP operations with timely, compliant issue resolution
•    Implement system changes, upgrades, and lifecycle improvements
•    Partner closely with Manufacturing, Engineering, IT, Facilities, and Quality teams
•    Support commissioning, qualification, validation, and data integrity requirements

What We’re Looking For
• A minimum of 7-10 years of relevant experience automation experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, or regulated manufacturing
•    Strong working knowledge of PLC-based systems and industrial automation platforms
•    Familiarity with cGMPs, validation, audit trails, and change management
•    Ability to bridge OT and IT systems in a compliant manufacturing environment
•    A proactive, detail-oriented engineer with strong problem-solving skills

Why Join Us
•    Work with state-of-the-art aseptic filling and automation technologies
•    Make a direct impact on patient safety and product quality
•    Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits
•    Long-term growth in a modern, high-tech manufacturing organization

Help automate medicines that matter—and see the impact of your work beyond the factory floor.

Apply today and be part of something bigger.

Target Pay Range: $130,000 - 185,000

Individual compensation packages are based on various factors unique to each candidate, including skill set, experience, qualifications and other job-related reasons.

Your Benefits: 

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life
• Voluntary Accident, Hospital, Pet
• 401K
• Generous PTO Structure

Founded in 1873 in Zofingen, Switzerland, Siegfried has grown into a global network of 13 sites across three continents. With a team of more than 3,800 highly skilled professionals, we take the innovations of our pharmaceutical customers to industrial scale and manufacture safe drugs for patients worldwide. As a fully integrated CDMO, Siegfried is one of the few organizations today that can carry out the development and manufacturing of APIs and finished dosage forms under one roof. This unique combination of know-how and experience makes us the most trusted partner in the pharmaceutical industry.