Senior Operations Technology Engineer

About Bora

Bora Pharmaceuticals is a premier international contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) specializing in formulation development, clinical and commercial manufacturing, and packaging of complex oral solid dose, liquid, semi-solid, biologics, and sterile injectable pharmaceutical products.

From our world-class sites in North America and Asia, we deliver drug products with unparalleled quality to more than 100 markets around the world. Bora’s teams, technologies, and facilities work seamlessly together to enable our clients to deliver much-needed therapeutics to patients worldwide.

At Bora Pharmaceuticals, we see it as our mission, our duty, our responsibility, to make our success and our customer’s success more certain.

Job Summary

The Senior Operations Technology Engineer provides expert leadership in maintaining, optimizing, and upgrading facility infrastructure and process equipment at the Baltimore Fill/Finish facility. This role ensures that all manufacturing equipment and systems remain fully functional and compliant, while also supporting equipment downtime troubleshooting and rapid problem resolution. The engineer manages complex capital expenditure (CapEx) projects, leads design activities, and implements advanced automation solutions to drive continuous improvement. In addition to overseeing critical plant systems and digital transformation initiatives, this position offers mentorship and technical guidance to engineers and other departments, fostering professional growth and operational excellence throughout the organization.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

- Design, maintain, Install, and commission, Rockwell and Siemens based systems.
- Provide Implementation and Tunning of PID Controls.
- Maintain and apply continuous improvement techniques for Supervisory and Data Acquisition Systems.
- Performs/oversees programming, maintenance and troubleshooting of programmable logic controllers and process/environmental monitoring systems.
- Assists in validation/qualification of equipment and facilities as needed.
- Involved in the oversight and coordination of activities that include design, specification creation, procurement, construction management, repair of production and facilities equipment.
- Performs engineering design and bid evaluations.
- Perform QMS related activities (CAPAS, SOP, WI, Etc.)
- Develop and implement training programs necessary to transfer knowledge and/or procedures to production or laboratory personnel dealing with manufacturing techniques or process equipment.

The above statements are intended to describe the nature of work performed by those in this job and are not an exhaustive list of all duties. Nothing in this job description restricts managements right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time which reflects management’s assignment of essential functions.

Minimum Education, Experience, Skills

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Mechatronic Engineering.
- 8 or more years of experience in industrial controls and engineering/maintenance setting.
- 5 years of experience in regulated industry.
- Advanced knowledge on Rockwell and Siemens PLC, Drivers and IOs.
- Advanced knowledge in Factory Talk and Ignition platforms.
- Advanced knowledge in AutoCAD.
- Advanced knowledge in PLC programming using Ladder and STL.
- Advanced knowledge in OSI PI and Factory Talk historian.
- Advanced knowledge in Computer System Validation.
- Knowledge in Networking infrastructure.
- Familiarity with ISA 95 framework.

Base Salary Range: 100000-160000

Compensation and Benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support our employees’ wellbeing, including:

- Competitive salary and performance-based incentives
- Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Retirement savings plans with employer matching contributions
- Paid time off
- Professional development opportunities
- Employee wellness programs and resources
- Employee Assistance Program and Mental Health Resources

Core Values

At Bora, our values guide everything we do — from how we solve challenges to how we support our people. We lead with a solutions-first mindset, strive to do the right thing, stay proactive, and above all, respect everyone.

Bora Pharmaceuticals is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees according to all applicable equal opportunity and affirmative action laws, directives and regulations of federal, state and local governing bodies and agencies. In keeping with this commitment, Bora Pharmaceuticals  will recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles, without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including factors related to pregnancy or child birth), national origin, age, marital status, familial status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity status with regard to public assistance, employment status, local human rights commission activity, status as a protected veteran, genetic information, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, or any other protected category.