CAPEX User Lead – Fermentation

Interested in a career that matters

Interested in a career that matters
Join Novonesis as a CAPEX User Lead Fermentation and play a key role in delivering fermentation-related investments that support future production capacity innovation and operational excellence. As part of the User Management team Patexpansion in Mumbai you will work across disciplines to ensure fermentation projects are successfully designed commissioned and transitioned into operations.

The role & your impact
This is a senior technical role focused on medium and complex CAPEX projects related to fermentation processes and equipment. You will represent the user organization throughout the project lifecycle ensuring investments meet business operational quality safety reliability and performance requirements while also supporting future technology and capacity development.

Your key responsibilities in this role

• Lead fermentation-related user activities from project definition through commissioning and operational handover.
• Develop maintain and approve user requirements installation requirements design criteria and acceptance requirements.
• Review process concepts layouts PFDs P&IDs equipment specifications automation functions and operating concepts.
• Coordinate cross-functional inputs from Operations Maintenance Engineering Process Development Quality EHS and Automation teams.
• Participate in risk assessments HAZOPs FAT SAT commissioning startup and operational readiness activities.
• Support technology planning technical development initiatives and evaluation of future fermentation technologies.

What youll need to be successful in this role

• . Chemical Engineering Biochemical Engineering Biotechnology Process Engineering or a related discipline.
• More than 10 years of relevant technical experience including significant fermentation or upstream bioprocessing experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in production process engineering or CAPEX project execution.
• Strong knowledge of fermentation processes production equipment process design and operational requirements.
• Experience with URS development design reviews risk assessments FAT SAT commissioning and project handover.
• Strong stakeholder management collaboration and influencing skills across functions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

Additional skills & interests we value

• Experience supporting large-scale manufacturing expansion projects.
• Knowledge of equipment reliability maintainability and operational readiness practices.
• Experience training users or project teams within a CAPEX environment.

What we offer you
An opportunity to influence strategic fermentation investments and collaborate with experts across engineering operations quality process development and project execution. You will contribute to projects that support Novonesis future growth and technology development.

Working conditions
This is an on-site position based in Talkhalapur Mumbai India.

Application deadline
19 October 2026.

Our purpose guides the way

In Novonesis we know that solutions rooted in biology can help solve humanitys biggest challenges. Since we began more than a century ago this has been our guide. Its how weve gotten so far. And its how well impact the future. Now more than ever the world needs change. And with biosolutions the possibilities for transformation are endless. If our purpose resonates with you we encourage you to apply.

Opportunities for everyone

We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and equal opportunity for all applicants. Therefore we ask you to apply without a cover letter or photo and instead include a few sentences in your CV explaining your motivation for applying.

We make all employment decisions based on business needs and welcome candidates with a wide range of backgrounds including ethnicity religion gender sexual orientation age disability or veteran status.

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