At Bausch Health, you will join a global diversified pharmaceutical company dedicated to enriching lives through better health outcomes. We are looking for a Senior Automation Engineer to lead the design, development, validation, and implementation of automation systems and equipment that support our manufacturing operations. Your expertise will be critical in ensuring product quality, delivery efficiency, and cost optimization while driving continuous improvement in automated processes.
What You'll Do
- Own and execute site-level automation projects end-to-end and serve as the Solta technical owner for integrator-led projects.
- Develop and drive best practices around automation equipment design principles and standards.
- Set Design for Automation (DFA) requirements and collaborate with Product Development to ensure product manufacturability.
- Hold design reviews to ensure DFA requirements are met.
- Collaborate with manufacturing and test engineers, technicians, and operators to develop and execute semi-automation or partial automation projects.
- Develop and execute process and equipment verification and validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) plans, reports, and associated documentation.
- Develop and implement optical inspections to ensure quality processes.
- Create and provide requirements to vendors for equipment quoting.
- Perform Gage R&R analysis on new products and processes.
- Initiate root-cause analysis and troubleshooting of deployed automation to improve OEE/yield and reduce cost.
- Consult with leadership on overall automation strategy.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to manufacturing engineers.
- Act as the site automation technical authority.
- Identify and justify automation projects across labor, quality, risk, and capacity drivers.
What We're Looking For
- BS in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Minimum 5 years of experience designing, developing, or implementing automated equipment/systems in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
- Proven Project Management skills through the delivery of business-critical projects.
- Proficiency in automation technologies, industrial and collaborative robotics, and vision systems.
- Demonstrated ability to set up manufacturing lines and processes.
- Experience assessing process variables utilizing a process failure modes effects analysis (PFMEA).
- Demonstrated ability to verify and validate production processes and equipment (IQ/OQ/PQ, FAT, SAT).
- Demonstrated ability to drive production process improvement through equipment, methods, and design.
- Demonstrated ability to utilize SPC and design of experiments to drive change.
- Demonstrated ability to drive DFA improvement into product designs during development.
- Demonstrated ability to utilize and implement lean manufacturing concepts.
- Experience with Creo or other CAD solid modeling tools.
- Strong PC skills – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
Nice to Have
- Experience in a capital equipment medical device manufacturing environment.
- Working knowledge of medical device FDA QSR's and ISO 9001 requirements.
- Experience with PLC programming.
- Background in RF and laser equipment and/or diagnostic or therapeutic ultrasound.
Technical Stack
- Creo or other CAD solid modeling tools
- PLC programming
Be a part of a culture that doesn't just wait for change but actively creates it—where your skills and values drive our collective progress and impact.
