Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Recipe Author

At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, “Who are you working for?”—a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.

Responsible for enterprise recipe management and support of the Enterprise Manufacturing Execution Systems (EMES) solution that is utilized across the BMS digital manufacturing network to produce clinical and commercial medicine. 
The EMES Recipe Author’s scope is supporting the global recipe management strategy including managing the Biologics network-based recipes from requirements to build testing and support, reports, and any customizations that support Biologics manufacturing and batch disposition operations.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Support global recipe management strategy to maximize reuse of recipes and/or recipe segments across sites.
• Build recipes that are designed around simplicity, flexibility, and cost effectiveness.
• Partner with MS&T and Process Robustness team to configure recipes in support of analytics.
• Lead recipe delivery process including.
• Partnering with Supply Chain, MS&T, Quality, and Manufacturing Operations to understand business requirements.
• Development of functional specifications.
• Recipe authoring, demos, and dry run facilitation.
• Recipe User Acceptance Testing.
• Recipe and master data installations and promotions
• Ensure recipes are built with consistency and adhere to guidelines.
• Perform recipe and specification review and approvals.
• Gather and manage requirements around batch reports that relate to the Review by Exception and Release by Exception strategies.
• Tier 3 escalation support of Pharma recipes and process to minimize disruption to manufacturing and/or impact to product.
• Support strategy for collecting end user feedback and improving the usability and user experience of the overall EMES solution.
• Support risk and impact assessment that changes, patches, outages, or other events can have to the EMES solution and the global network and define mitigation strategies. k. Support a knowledge management strategy including generating training content and mentoring.
• Promote compliance with data integrity and computer system validation requirements and regulations.
• Promote compliance by understanding change and the impact to the validated state of the application and underlying infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields with 5+ years' Life Sciences industry experience and at least 2 years’ experience in MES (preferably Emerson Syncade).
• At least 2 years’ direct experience designing and building recipes in automation and execution systems (Syncade, PI Data historian, etc.) in regulated manufacturing environments.
• Strong domain expertise in the application of IT to manufacturing, including a broad understanding of processes and how they are supported by IT tools and systems.
• Strong knowledge of regulatory landscape and demonstrated experience with software validation.
• Proven track record of successful IT/automation project delivery
• Ability to work across global sites and cultures.
• Ability to travel up to 10% domestically and internationally.

We hire for skills and capabilities, not just credentials – if this role excites you, but doesn’t perfectly match your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway.

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Where you work matters – because collaboration, innovation and patient impact happen in many settings. Our roles are structured across four work models: site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design. The model assigned to this role is based on its core responsibilities. Learn more at https://careers.bms.com/ways-of-working.

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