Director, Process Automation and Digital Engineering

The Role:

The Director, Process Automation & Digital Engineering and Support will partner with various to support the design, build, run and maintain function of industrial and automation systems across Moderna for long term success. The Director, Process Automation & Digital Engineering Lead is responsible for providing advanced level expertise to global capital projects including feasibility & concept studies, capital facility buildouts and equipment and system selection, process improvement projects, etc.

He/she may serve as the overall project lead or project technical lead. The role requires the ability to manage multiple contractors and a portfolio of technical projects at the same time.

This role reports into Senior Vice President of Engineering and is based in Norwood, MA

Here’s What You’ll Do:

• Lead the automation portion of concurrent complex capital projects at both site and global levels, manage a team of engineers and contractors to proactively identify risks and develop mitigating strategies, while communicating to stakeholders and driving timelines

• Strives to ensure the digital and process automation scope is removed from the critical path on all projects

• Partner with end users and support functions to develop automation and digital systems technical roadmaps and capital investment strategies

• Develop and deploy innovative solutions that contribute to achieving Moderna’s sustainability goals

• Lead a collaborative team of engineers and act as a mentor to help grow technical expertise.

• Establish and provide support services for technical issue resolution

• Partner with Digital teams to ensure a robust, optimized, and integrated digital landscape

• Participate on management teams to implement efforts and projects to meet evolving business needs

• Apply an operational excellence mindset to help identify, devise, and recommend new opportunities to optimize current processes

• Ensure safety and data integrity is prioritized in the design, delivery, and maintenance of all projects and operational activities.

• Develops the Process Automation, Instrumentation and Digital Standards for global deployment.

• Implementation of automation solution across global network

• Lead the automation of existing manual processes.

Here’s What You’ll Bring to the Table:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in science, engineering or computer science, MBA or PhD is a plus

• 12 years of experience in an engineering organization designing, implementing, and supporting various industrial systems and working in a GMP environment

• Proven track record in leading Industry 4.0 initiatives or projects

• Extensive experience in the delivery of capital projects as part of the design team

• Ability to provide direction and guidance to external design firms to deliver capital projects

• Experience in providing technical support to manufacturing facilities

• Strong understanding of manufacturing systems, lab systems, enterprise systems and standalone systems.

• Experience working with shop floor equipment, lab equipment, utility equipment and IIoT devices.

• Experience with different Industrial systems like (process control, historian, application/web servers, building management systems, utility systems, lab systems and cross platform communication)

• Experience evaluating, selecting, and implementing digital systems

• Ability to adapt to a fast paced, startup-like environment

• Experience in defining, scoping, and managing technology initiatives

• Strong knowledge GAMP and GxP compliance regulations

• A desire to be part of a high-growth, transformational company that is Bold, Relentless, Curious, and Collaborative

Here’s What We’ll Bring to the Table:

• On-site subsidized cafeteria or catered lunches
• Company-provided iPhone
• Free parking, monthly subway pass or a subsidized commuter rail pass
• Free annual corporate membership to Bluebikes
• Highly competitive healthcare coverage including: medical offered through BCBS (HMO/PPO), dental, and vision offered through VSP
• Flexible Spending Accounts for medical expenses and dependent care expenses
• 16 weeks of 100% paid parental leave for all new parents
• 16 weeks 100% paid family caregiver leave
• 20 weeks 100% paid medical leave
• Eligible for “Moderna Month” (one month paid sabbatical after five years of service and eligible for additional one month paid sabbatical every 3 years thereafter)
• Adoption assistance and discounts to local childcare centers, as well as access to care.com
• 401k (traditional and Roth offered) with 50% match on first 6% deferred. Match is vested immediately
• A suite of Moderna paid insurance coverage, including: life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
• Voluntary legal assistance plan
• 15 days’ vacation and 7 sick days per year, in addition to a discretionary winter shut down and 11 company paid holidays (includes 2 floating holidays)

Candidates should be aware that Moderna currently maintains a policy requiring all US-based employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and receive a booster shot once eligible . Newly hired employees must be vaccinated and boosted prior to their employment start date. Moderna is an equal opportunity employer and will provide a reasonable accommodation to those unable to be vaccinated or receive a booster where it is not an undue hardship to the company to do so as provided under federal, state, and local law.

About Moderna

In 10 years since its inception, Moderna has transformed from a science research-stage company advancing programs in the field of messenger RNA (mRNA), to an enterprise with a diverse clinical portfolio of vaccines and therapeutics across six modalities, a broad intellectual property portfolio in areas including mRNA and lipid nanoparticle formulation, and an integrated manufacturing plant that allows for both clinical and commercial production at scale and at unprecedented speed. Moderna maintains alliances with a broad range of domestic and overseas government and commercial collaborators, which has allowed for the pursuit of both groundbreaking science and rapid scaling of manufacturing. Most recently, Moderna’s capabilities have come together to allow the authorized use of one of the earliest and most effective vaccines against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Moderna’s mRNA platform builds on continuous advances in basic and applied mRNA science, delivery technology and manufacturing, and has allowed the development of therapeutics and vaccines for infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases, cardiovascular diseases and auto-immune diseases. Moderna has been named a top biopharmaceutical employer by Science for the past seven years. To learn more, visit www.modernatx.com .

Moderna is a smoke-free, alcohol-free and drug-free work environment.

Moderna is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person’s race, color, gender, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation or any characteristic protected under applicable law. Moderna will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.