Lean and Automation Engineer

Requirements:

• Masters degree in industrial, manufacturing, or mechanical engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 2–3 years of pharmaceutical industry experience, including at least 2 years supporting Oral Solid Dosage (OSD) or tableting/compression operations.
• Hands-on experience with Lean Manufacturing, DMAIC, Value Stream Mapping, SMED, OEE improvement, statistical analysis, root cause analysis, and process analysis.
• Demonstrated completion of waste-reduction or automation projects as the primary executor rather than a coordinator.
• Ability to identify improvement opportunities, develop business cases, quantify benefits, and create practical workflows, dashboards, or data tools.
• Strong project ownership and cross-functional execution skills in environments with GMP, data-integrity, safety, and quality requirements.
• Preferred: Lean Six Sigma Black Belt; Green Belts with proven hands-on delivery will also be considered.
• Preferred: Experience with Power BI, Power Automate, advanced Excel, SQL, SAP, MES/EBR, historian platforms, or manufacturing analytics tools.
• Preferred: Experience using modern analytics and AI-enabled tools to improve operational reliability and performance.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, systems-thinking, communication, documentation, and compliance skills; able to challenge established practices and carry approved ideas through implementation and sustainment.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct process and time studies, waste assessments, and bottleneck analyses to identify improvement and automation opportunities.
• Prepare evidence-based opportunity assessments detailing baseline performance, anticipated operational and financial benefits, implementation needs, costs, risks, timelines, and sustainment plans.
• Present opportunities to the Site Leadership Team for prioritization, approval, and sponsorship.
• Lead approved projects from analysis through solution development, automation build, training, implementation, benefit realization, and sustainment, collaborating with Operations, Finance, Quality, Engineering, and IT/OT.
• Develop and deploy practical digital and analytics tools, including dashboards, automated workflows, and electronic data collection, to reduce non-value-added work.
• Improve OEE, cleaning and changeover/setup times, labor productivity, throughput, and capacity across manufacturing, laboratories, offices, and warehouse operations.
• Work with Finance to consistently classify and validate benefits, maintain an agreed view of project value, and avoid duplicate reporting or double counting.
• Establish process ownership, standard work, training, controls, documentation, and performance tracking before project closure.
• Ensure improvements meet GMP, data-integrity, safety, quality, change-control, and validation requirements in an FDA-regulated environment.

Technologies:

• AI
• Excel
• Power BI
• SAP
• SQL

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We are seeking a hands-on Continuous Improvement & Automation Engineer for a regulated Oral Solid Dosage environment. This role offers meaningful ownership and impact: you will build and implement solutions rather than serve primarily as a facilitator or meeting coordinator. We measure success through strong opportunities identified, approved projects implemented, Finance-validated benefits delivered, and compliant results sustained. The position is based in Davie, Florida, for an initial six-month term with possible extension, with standard working hours from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. A practical project example will be discussed on site.

last updated 43 week of 2026