Title: Automation Engineer – PI Historian Location: Billingham, UK We’re seeking an experienced Automation Engineer to own, develop, and maintain our site AVEVA PI data historian ecosystem. You’ll be the site SME for PI—integrating legacy process control systems and manufacturing equipment, enabling near real-time data availability, and helping teams transform raw data into meaningful insights for operations, quality, and leadership. What you’ll do Act as the site PI System Administrator/SME—deploy, configure, and sustain AVEVA PI to ensure reliability, integrity, and availability. Manage maintenance and keep systems in a validated state aligned with site procedures, GMP, and GAMP expectations. Integrate data from control systems (e.g., Emerson DeltaV, Siemens) and manufacturing equipment; define optimal data acquisition strategies. Partner with Automation and Manufacturing to improve data availability, contextualization, and usability across the business. Develop and support PI Vision displays and coach users on effective data retrieval and visualization. Lead/own quality records including deviations, CAPAs, and effectiveness checks. Provide front-line technical support and prioritize issues and project deliverables with a high degree of autonomy. What you’ll bring Minimum qualifications: HND (or equivalent, e.g., time-served apprenticeship) in EC&I or IT AND 7+ years in a front-line delivery role serving the Life Sciences industry. 5+ years hands-on configuring and administering AVEVA PI Historian systems. Strong experience integrating manufacturing data and implementing contextualization/presentation solutions. Solid understanding of DCS/PLC environments (preference for Emerson DeltaV and Siemens). Knowledge of batch processing and ISA-88. Experience maintaining software in regulated environments (GMP/GAMP), ideally bio/pharma. Ability to perform admin tasks in automation systems (e.g., DeltaV, PI, Infobatch). Why join us Make a measurable impact by enabling data-driven decisions across a highly regulated manufacturing site. Work with modern automation tech and shape best practices, standards, and data models. Collaborate with a supportive, expert Automation team and cross-functional partners. Competitive salary, with 35 days holiday (Not including Public Holidays), annual incentive plan and up earn up to 21% on your pension We are committed to equal opportunities in hiring, promotion, compensation, benefits, and training—regardless of nationality, age, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity, race, ethnicity, religion, political creed, ideology, national or social origin, disability, or veteran status. We are part of the Fujifilm Group, and we all share the same purpose. Giving our world more smiles. We bring diverse ideas, unique capabilities, and extraordinary people together to change the world. FUJIFILM Biotechnologies works in strategic collaboration with biopharmaceutical and biotech companies to develop and manufacture the latest in biologics, advanced therapies and vaccines. With production facilities in the US and Europe, we give our customers everything they need to develop and commercialize treatments and therapies effectively and efficiently to make patients’ lives better. We are driven to revolutionize the industry through our Partners for Life mindset, seeking to build global partnerships based on trust with our customers. Our global teams fully embrace our aspiration of being the leading and most trusted Partners for Life in the biopharmaceutical industry.

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