Job Title: Automation CSV Engineer
Location: Redmond, WA
Department: Global MSAT
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The Automation CSV Engineer is responsible for supporting validation, compliance, testing, and technical documentation activities for GMP automation systems within a regulated manufacturing environment. This role partners closely with Automation, Quality Assurance (QA), IT CSV, Manufacturing, and Engineering teams to help ensure automation systems remain compliant, reliable, and maintained in a validated state throughout the system lifecycle.
What You’ll Do:
Position Summary
The Automation CSV Engineer provides validation and compliance support for automation and computerized systems used in GMP manufacturing operations. The position is responsible for developing validation strategies, preparing and executing lifecycle documentation, assessing automation changes, and helping maintain systems in a controlled and validated state.
This role works across Automation, Quality Assurance, IT, Manufacturing, Engineering, Validation, and external service providers. The engineer will apply technical knowledge of manufacturing control systems and risk-based validation practices to support system implementations, upgrades, modifications, periodic reviews, and ongoing operations.
Successful candidates will have practical experience with platforms such as Emerson DeltaV, OSIsoft PI or AVEVA PI System, SCADA, PLC-based controls, batch systems, and associated interfaces. The role requires strong technical writing, disciplined documentation practices, and the ability to translate technical system behavior into clear and defensible validation evidence.
Key Responsibilities
Automation System Validation
Develop and support lifecycle validation strategies for GMP automation systems, including DeltaV, process historians, SCADA platforms, PLC controls, batch applications, and supporting infrastructure.
Define the appropriate validation deliverables based on intended use, system complexity, configuration, product or process impact, and risk.
Support new system implementations, expansions, upgrades, migrations, security updates, patches, and decommissioning activities.
Evaluate automation changes for validation impact and determine the testing, documentation, and approval requirements needed before release.
Help ensure validated systems remain fit for intended use throughout their operational lifecycle.
Support the transition of new or modified systems from project delivery into site operations and ongoing system ownership.
Lifecycle Documentation
Author, review, revise, and maintain validation and engineering documents, which may include: Validation plans and system validation plansUser requirements and functional requirementsFunctional and configuration specificationsSystem and data flow descriptionsRisk assessmentsRequirements traceability matricesCommissioning and qualification protocolsIQ, OQ, and PQ protocolsAutomation functional test scriptsValidation discrepancy and deviation recordsValidation summary reportsStandard operating procedures and work instructions
Confirm that requirements are clear, testable, traceable, and appropriate for the system’s intended use.
Ensure executed documentation is complete, legible, attributable, technically accurate, and consistent with site procedures.
Route documents through applicable document management and electronic quality management systems.
Work with reviewers and approvers to resolve comments…