Purpose

Provides leadership and direction in software validation activities including: reviewing software requirement documents; writing and reviewing validation documents (test plans/strategy and detailed test cases/instructions); executing and reviewing validation test cases; updating departmental procedures and templates.

Responsibilities

• This position will be responsible to provide validation support for OT projects, primarily DeltaV and/or Allen-Bradley PLCs, and ongoing manufacturing automation validation support activities.
• Support Factory Acceptance Testing in conjunction with Project Engineers to confirm unit is acceptable.
• The APC Validation Engineer is responsible for ensuring software quality assurance is achieved during OT projects while meeting project objectives and deliverables.
• The position is responsible for working with Project Managers on all phases of the System Development Life Cycle process.
• Position is responsible for managing all validation activities such as protocol writing, identification of risk controls, reviewing of validation documents, storage of controlled documents and providing resolution to problem reports.
• Perform minor troubleshooting of issues encountered during commissioning and documentation of unresolved issues.
• Responsible for implementing Validation Quality Assurance standard into departmental documents and ensuring all departmental training is complete.
• Responsible for ownership of the OT System Periodic Validation Review, Data Integrity, and Data Security lifecycles, including management and execution of remediation task closures.
• The APC Validation Engineer works as a liaison between OT/Automation department and the Validation Quality Assurance department and will be responsible for audit activities such as interacting with auditors.
• The APC Validation Engineer is responsible for completing project tasks within time and budget constraints.
• May supervise contract validation resources in the timely completion of activities in his/her area of responsibility

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