Technology Lead

Use Your Power for Purpose
Whether you are involved in the design and development of manufacturing processes for products or supporting maintenance and reliability, engineering is crucial to ensuring customers and patients receive the medicines they need, precisely when they need them. By collaborating with our forward-thinking engineering team, you will play a pivotal role in accelerating the delivery of medicines to the world. Your innovative ideas and proactive actions will help us imagine new possibilities and bring them to life, ensuring that our solutions are both timely and effective.
ROLE SUMMARY
This role leads Automation and Calibration for manufacturing equipment across the site, ensuring strategic deployment and lifecycle management of automation systems aligned with operational goals and regulatory standards. It oversees calibration programs and integrates automation systems with enterprise networks to ensure data integrity, secure access, and robust connectivity and establishing cybersecurity and digital immunity in collaboration with Digital and global teams.
The role ensures cross-functional collaboration across the operations. It also involves evaluating emerging technologies like AI and smart sensors to enhance system performance.
As a people leader, the role inspires and coaches a multidisciplinary team, fostering a culture of growth, ownership, safety, and compliance. It emphasizes performance enhancement through development plans, structured learning, cross-training, and succession planning. The role promotes a positive compliance culture via leader-led conversations and real-time coaching, and encourages collaboration, innovation, and knowledge sharing.
Key Responsibilities
Maintenance & Reliability Engineering

• Oversee the health and performance of automation and instrumentation assets, ensuring uptime, compliance, and GMP readiness.
• Coordinate preventive maintenance, calibration, and software backups in collaboration with users and technical teams.
• Analyse failure trends, lead root cause investigations, and implement corrective actions to improve equipment reliability and performance.
• Drive energy conservation, productivity enhancements, and equipment upgrades through continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure automation systems are integrated with CMMS for real-time tracking of maintenance schedules, calibration status, and asset history.
• Monitor and maintain automation software versions, patches, and firmware updates to ensure system stability and cybersecurity compliance.
• Lead troubleshooting efforts for automation-related breakdowns, including PLCs, SCADA, DCS, and HMI systems.
• Establish and maintain a robust spare parts strategy for critical automation components to minimize downtime.
• Collaborate with IT and cybersecurity teams to ensure automation networks are secure, segmented, and monitored for anomalies.
• Implement predictive maintenance strategies using historian data, condition monitoring, and analytics tools.
• Ensure backup and disaster recovery procedures are validated and tested for all automation systems.
• Maintain documentation for all automation assets, including wiring diagrams, logic flowcharts, and configuration files.
• Support validation and requalification of automation systems post-maintenance or upgrades to ensure compliance with 21 CFR Part 11 and ISO 17025.

Equipment Qualification & Automation Integration

• Lead the qualification of new and existing equipment, ensuring alignment with URS, regulatory expectations, and internal quality standards.
• Collaborate with vendors and cross-functional teams to review concepts, develop specifications, and approve qualification protocols and engineering drawings.
• Ensure all automation systems and instruments are qualified, calibrated, and maintained per schedule, including preventive maintenance and requalification cycles.

People Leadership & Culture Building

• Inspire and coach a multidisciplinary team, fostering a culture of growth, ownership, safety, and compliance.
• Continuous focus on performance enhancement of team by developing individual development plans and lead capability improvement initiatives.
• Promote a positive compliance culture through regular Leader-Led Conversations and real-time coaching.
• Monitor team activities in GMP areas, ensuring adherence to procedures and immediate escalation of concerns.
• Provide mentoring and guidance to team members to support their professional growth and technical development.
• Build team capability through structured learning, cross-training, and succession planning.
• Encourage collaboration, innovation, and knowledge sharing within the team and across departments.
• Lead by example, demonstrating integrity, resilience, and a commitment to continuous improvement.

Project Management & Digital Transformation

• Lead and support automation-related capital projects, expansions, and process improvement initiatives.
• Identify and implement digital technologies such as historian systems, smart sensors, and AI-driven analytics to enhance operational visibility and decision-making.
• Ensure alignment of automation strategies with site-wide digital and business transformation goals.

Compliance, Documentation & Data Integrity

• Ensure adherence to cGMP, GDP, ISO 17025, and 21 CFR Part 11 standards across all automation and calibration activities.
• Review and approve GMP documentation, SOPs, incident investigations, and change controls.
• Champion good data management practices (ALCOA+), audit readiness, and timely closure of CAPAs and deviations.
• Support internal and external audits, walkthroughs, and regulatory inspections.

Reporting & Budget Management

• Prepare and manage departmental budgets, ensuring cost control and resource optimisation.
• Generate and review MIS reports, equipment breakdown data, and performance dashboards to inform strategic decisions.

Environmental Health & Safety (EHS)

• Ensure strict adherence to EHS guidelines and statutory obligations related to workplace safety, discrimination, and harassment.
• Promote a safe working environment through proactive risk assessments, training, and compliance with site safety protocols.

Essential Requirements:

• Graduate in Electronics & Instrumentation, Electrical & Electronics, or with specialisation in instrumentation.
• 15+ years of hands-on experience in instrumentation, automation, and calibration in regulated environments.
• Strong knowledge of equipment qualification, preventive maintenance, and regulatory compliance.
• Proficiency in computer system validation, metrological standards, and cleanroom regulatory guidelines.
• Experience with CMMS, historian platforms, and automated manufacturing systems.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to engage across all organisational levels.
• Proven ability to lead teams, resolve conflicts, and drive performance.
• Build a road map for succession and talent pipe line development.
• High emotional intelligence and ability to manage sensitive information with discretion.
• Familiarity with Industry 4.0 technologies and digital transformation initiatives.

Work Location Assignment: On Premise
Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.
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