Pfizer Walkin Drive in Vizag For Engineering
- Pfizer
- 2 - 6 years
- Visakhapatnam
- 2 days ago
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Job Description
Role & responsibilities
Pfizer Walkin Drive in Vizag for Equipment Maintenance(Injectables), Instrumentation and Automation
Date: 8th March, 2026
Time: 09:00 am to 4:00 PM
Venue: Signature Hotel, NH: 16, Opp: BPCL Petrol Bunk, Sheelanagar, Visakhapatnam - 530012
JD for Equipment Maintenance:
Qualification: Diploma or B. Tech
Experience: 2 to 6 years in injectables manufacturing facility. Expertise in fill finish lines, Visual inspection and Packing
1. Position Overview
The Equipment Maintenance Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring uninterrupted, safe, and compliant operation of pharmaceutical manufacturing assets across Upstream, Downstream, Utilites, and FillFinish areas. This position requires hands-on troubleshooting, preventive and predictive maintenance execution, calibration activities, documentation compliance, and participation in continuous improvement & engineering projects.
Detailed Responsibilities
Technical Responsibilities
- Conduct preventive, breakdown, and predictive maintenance for mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation systems across Solution Prep, Vial Washing, Tunnel Sterilization, Filling, Capping, Lyophilization, Inspection, and Packaging areas.
- Calibrate field instruments including transmitters, sensors, gauges, flowmeters, control valves, and analytical instruments as per GMP procedures.
- Perform mechanical alignments, shaft coupling, lubrication, pump overhauling, pneumatic system troubleshooting, and equipment balancing.
- Troubleshoot PLC, SCADA, and DCS systemrelated alarms under guidance; assist in automation upgrades and FAT/SAT activities.
- Support installation, commissioning, and qualification of new equipment (IQ/OQ/PQ), ensuring documentation accuracy and compliance.
- Execute shut-down maintenance activities including equipment dismantling, inspection, refurbishment, and reassembly.
- Ensure availability and proper management of spares, consumables, and critical parts by coordinating with Stores and Procurement teams
- Working knowledge of equipment qualification, calibration, and validation principles.
- Ability to interpret P&IDs, electrical drawings, loop diagrams, and OEM manuals.
- Problem-solving capability using PDCA, fishbone analysis, 5-Why, and lean tools.
- Foundational knowledge of risk-based maintenance and equipment criticality ranking.
- Experience working with automation platforms such as Siemens, Allen-Bradley, or Emerson DeltaV.
- Strictly adhere to site EHS guidelines, LOTO procedures, safe work practices, and participate in hazard identification & risk assessments.
- Lead or support issuance, execution, and closure of work permits (General, LOTO, Hot Work, Height Work, Confined Space).
- Perform detailed root cause analysis for equipment failures and support CAPA development, deviation investigations, and change control documentation.
- Manage preventive maintenance plan execution in EAMS/CMMS, ensuring work orders, spare consumption, and task completion records are accurately updated.
- Monitor equipment health parameters, component wear trends, and propose predictive maintenance actions.
- Support engineering projects related to equipment upgrades, safety enhancements, automation improvements, and capacity expansions.
- Maintain 5S, workplace organization, and visual management standards across maintenance workshops and equipment areas.
JD for Instrumentation and Automation:
Qualification: Diploma/B. Tech with ECE or instrumentation
Experience: 2 to 6 years
Job Description
- Support the operation and troubleshooting of manufacturing equipment and control systems including DeltaV DCS, SCADA & PLCs.
- Support reliability engineering for production and support equipment
- Provide on the floor operational support as needed
- Responsible for Periodic review of the Automation Systems with support of validation team.
- Responsibility for managing regulatory aspects of the site networked engineering data collection, monitoring and SCADA systems
- Responsible for implementation of compliance initiatives including monitoring of system security procedures and practices and system logins for compliance
- Generate user requirement specifications for control systems.
- Author and/or review design documents for projects and process changes
- Define requirements for vendor design documentation.
- Review vendor automation design documentation (FS, HDS, SDS, DDS, requirements traceability matrix, code and logic, etc.).
- Support FAT/commissioning/qualification activities as required
- Review qualification protocols of automated systems.
- Support the execution of the qualification of automated control systems.
- Prepare risk assessments for automated systems
- Prepare Change Controls associated with changes to control systems
- Design and implementation support for functional and process changes, either smaller projects, remediation activities or capital projects
- Support future capital projects and assure site automation standards are followed
- Assist other departments in evaluating historical process/equipment data
- Provide automation guidance and training to other functional groups (i.e. Operations, Validation, Maintenance, etc.)
- Responsible for backup/archiving/restoring of Automation configuration and batch.
- Understand 21 CFR Part 11, cGAMP, and other regulatory guidance associated with computer / automation-based systems.
- Develop and implement site automation standards for hardware and software
- Develop automation Standard Operating Procedures
- System Admin for all site Control Systems and Data Historian for adding and disabling user access to Site Automation system
- Maintain Manufacturing level network, control level networks and Process I/O network.
- Expertise in a combination of process control, automation (PLC, SCADA & DCS) in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology or other life sciences industries.
- Individual must be capable of reading and understanding electrical control system diagrams (control panel wiring diagrams, loop drawings, panel layout drawings and schedules, etc.). Comfortable walking down control system diagrams and red lining them to reflect as built conditions.
- Good technical knowledge on field Instrumentation
- Good technical knowledge of industrial communication networks and related hardware & software.
- Basic understanding of sequel servers and databases.
- Familiarity with current industry practices and guidelines including those required / outlined by the FDA, ISO, EU and ICH.
Job Classification
Industry: Pharmaceutical & Life SciencesFunctional Area / Department: Production, Manufacturing & EngineeringRole Category: EngineeringRole: Automation EngineerEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: PfizerLocation(s): Visakhapatnam
Keyskills: Industrial Automation Equipment Maintenance DCS PLC SCADA Process Maintenance Plant Maintenance Process Instrumentation Process Equipment Mechanical Maintenance
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