Process Control Engineer

Be a part of a revolutionary change! At PMI, we’ve chosen to do something incredible. We’re totally transforming our business and building our future on one clear purpose – to deliver a smoke-free future. With huge change, comes huge opportunity. So, wherever you join us, you’ll enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions and the space to move your career forward in endlessly different directions. Wherever you join our crucial 47,000-strong Operations team, you’ll have the opportunity to make an impact. PMI’s shift from selling cigarettes to our new smoke-free products has changed the way we work. New products bring new challenges – in the way we source and buy raw materials, in the way we engineer and manufacture, and in our supply chain planning. Bring us your curiosity and a desire to challenge the everyday and we’ll give you lots of responsibility. You’ll help us improve, inject innovation and create new ways of working. We are currently looking for a Process Control Engineer, Automation Engineer, in Neuchatel, Switzerland. In this position you will be responsible to control all activities related to electric, electronics, equipment process control and connectivity in order to ensure that maintenance, modifications and improvements of the equipment in a scope of responsibility are implemented at the best cost and specified quality, through the data analysis and tool maintenance, thus ensuring the compliance with PMI standards and managing the overall performance towards customer satisfaction. Your responsibilities: • Ensure compliance to all PMI and legal standards, policies and guidelines related to Environment, Health, Safety, Sustainability to prevent personnel, asset or societal loss. • Report all situations requiring actions in order to minimize or eliminate risks exposure to personnel, company assets and societal impacts and be in line with or ahead of any applicable Law requirements and Company standards. • Optimize process control by implementing proper procedures for adjustments and calibration. • Identify compatible devices with proper characteristics to match the process control requirements. • Consult with suppliers to clarify particular technical questions concerning installations and control devices. • Analyze the most frequent causes of breakdowns, wastes, out of specs products and recommend corrective actions/solutions in order to contribute to overall productivity and quality improvement. • Coordinate activities related to electric, electronics, equipment process control installation and modification of production equipment. • Update the technical documentation with the latest modifications or improvements. • Support all necessary qualification and validation activities (CSV) activities following changes or upgrades. • Support adherence to all relevant Computerized Systems validation procedures and rules. • Collaborate with the Information Security Operations team in performing assessments on the shop floor. • Be accountable to ensure data integrity & availability between machine and first IT component. • Contribute to the Information Security vulnerability management, e.g. by determining applicability of security patches (based on asset inventory) and applying said security patches or coordinating their application by vendors, when needed. • Manage alerts produced by the factory network visibility and monitoring solution (CyberVision) or other security platforms, assessing them, and timely implementing risk-reduction measures or contributing to implement them in alignment with Information Security team. • Find technical solution, implement and monitor proposed improvements related to equipment. • Actively participate in continuous improvement process • Train and assist users for operational technology (OT) systems. • Ensure continuous technical support to production personnel to provide optimum operating conditions of process control & supervision system related to production equipment. • Provide coaching to other technical specialists. • Take responsibility for the completion of own training plan and align with the requirements established in the Qualification Matrix. We’re looking for someone with • College/University - Electronics University • + 3 years relevant operations experience • Proficiency in French and English • Automation specific skills • Problem solving skills • Intermediate IT skills (Office) • CSV Knowledge What we offer Our success depends on our talented employees who come to work here every single day with a sense of purpose and an appetite for progress. Join PMI and you too can: • Seize the freedom to define your future and ours. We’ll empower you to take risks, experiment and explore. • Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture, where everyone’s contribution is respected; collaborate with some of the world’s best people and feel like you belong. • Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business – our staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress. • Take pride in delivering our promise to society: to deliver a smoke-free future. To join our growing team….