Four years is not nearly time enough to train an engineer, and schools are long on theory and short on practice R. Russell Rhinehart, School of Chemical Engineering, Oklahoma State University From ControlGlobal.com I’d like to address the gap between the academic and practice control community—why it exists, the issues it creates, things that can […]
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AbbVie plans to expand of one of its existing sites in Barceloneta with an estimated investment of $30 million. The expansion will add to Puerto Rico’s capabilities as a manufacturing destination for biotechnology and is expected to create up to 100 new jobs over the next two years, according to a press release. “AbbVie’s expansion […]
China-based WuXi PharmaTech has announced construction of a new, 145,000-square-foot cGMP facility in Philadelphia, Pennyslvania, for the manufacture of cell therapy products. The new facility will be WuXi’s third cell therapy manufacturing facility in Philadelphia, when it becomes operational by mid-2016. It will provide single-source contract development and cGMP manufacturing capabilities to support the rapidly […]
Are your engineers exhausted? By Dirk Willard from: Chemical Processing “I work over 60 hour a week. It’s a contest to see who leaves the parking lot last around here,” I was told with a smile. I was interviewing for a job and the young engineer I was speaking to was the third person to […]
Position Responsibilities: The IT System Analyst position combines Supply Chain knowledge and IT system knowledge with an understanding of best-practices in supporting the Global Serialization Program. The role requires a strong technical and analytical background as well as the ability to design and develop appropriate business solutions. Recommend, implement and deliver technology solutions based on […]
In reading job description after job description and resume after resume for decades now, I’ve come to the realization that most fall far short. The job descriptions in most cases have no relationship to what someone is going to be doing on any given Wednesday afternoon. There’s plenty of vague talk about teamwork and good […]
Current needs for DeltaV applications and programming include: Three opportunities for a DeltaV programmer with experience in creating code for pharmaceutical processes. Requires someone familiar with batch code writing on a DeltaV system with a very strong preference for someone with previous pharmaceutical experience. This is a contract role and my last for six months […]
I’m somewhat dismayed at the clumsiness of recruiters who seem to think spamming job opportunities to other recruiters (thinking they are candidates), is going to be fruitful. Here, I post first the “pitch” by Sr Recruiter Jack Anderson (is his name really Jack Anderson, or is this just a superhero disguise left over from Halloween?). […]
Transparency After all of these years I’m still mystified that contracted engineers do not know what their hourly bill rate is. They’re of course aware of what they make per hour, since that’s usually part of the first conversation (“what’s it pay?”). And of course there are plenty of other items with regards to compensation […]
So, for fun today I decided to pretend I was an Emerson DeltaV programmer and I wanted to change jobs. Now in the process control world I am GOLD, but that’s beside the point. If you happen to plug into the massive job database Indeed, there’s no doubt you’ll find hundreds of openings for what […]