Job Description

AVEVA PI Engineer / Consultant Pharmaceutical Client

Job Title

AVEVA PI Engineer / Consultant

Industry Domain

Pharmaceutical / Life Sciences (GxP-regulated Manufacturing)

Experience Required

5-10 years

Employment Type

Full time

Location

Chennai

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced AVEVA PI (OSIsoft PI) Engineer with expertise in the Life Sciences/Pharmaceutical industry to design, implement, and support enterprise historian solutions. The candidate will be responsible for integrating manufacturing, laboratory, utility, and automation systems with the AVEVA PI System to enable real-time monitoring, data integrity, regulatory compliance, process optimization, and digital transformation initiatives.

The ideal candidate should possess strong knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing processes, GMP regulations, data integrity requirements, and industrial automation systems.

Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain PI Data Archive, PI AF (Asset Framework), PI Vision, and PI Interfaces/Connectors to collect, contextualize,



and deliver real-time process data.
- Build and manage AF templates, element hierarchies, event frames, and analyses to model plant assets and business logic.
- Configure and troubleshoot PI interfaces (OPC DA/UA, Modbus, custom interfaces) for data acquisition from PLCs, DCS, SCADA, and historians.
- Develop PI Vision displays, dashboards, and PI DataLink/Excel reports for operations, engineering, and management stakeholders.
- Write and maintain scripts (e.g., PowerShell, Python, PI SDK/AF SDK, PI Web API) to automate data workflows, integrations, and system health checks.
- Integrate PI System data with other platforms (MES, ERP, SQL/historian databases, cloud data lakes, Aveva Data Hub/Connect).
- Monitor system performance, data quality, and tag counts; perform capacity planning and license management.
- Support PI System upgrades, patching, backups, disaster recovery, and high-availability (PI Colle

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