Independently provides and/or directs the technical validation engineering support of process and/or equipment upgrades replacements and modifications in the laboratory manufacturing or manufacturing support environment.
Functions:
Able to troubleshoot systemic validation issues.
Applies advanced and diverse validation engineering principles to the design and implementation of major system or process modifications and/or capital projects.
Develops organizes analyzes and presents interpretation of results for operational issues or validation engineering projects of significant scope and complexity.
Complete complex or novel assignments requiring development of new and/or improved validation engineering techniques and procedures.
Develop validation engineering policies and procedures that affect multiple organizational units.
Supervise coordinate and review work of a small staff of engineers and/or technicians on an ongoing basis as well as on a project basis.
Employ advanced validation engineering techniques and/or modifications of advanced techniques within area of validation engineering expertise.
Apply knowledge of validation engineering principles and practices outside of area of expertise to broad variety of assignments in related fields.
Develop technical solutions to complex problems requiring the regular use of ingenuity and creativity.
Work with manufacturing process development utilities facilities labs and/or quality assurance in developing requirements and recommendations for large and/or highly complex process system/facility modifications.
Work with project managers to complete the validation responsibilities of engineering projects within schedule budget and quality constraints.
Develop departmental budgets or project budgets encompassing multiple disciplines for area within project or entirety of smaller project.
Applies extensive technical validation expertise and has full knowledge of other related disciplines.
Problem Solving:
Provide technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems.
Solutions are imaginative thorough practicable and consistent with organization objectives.
Discretion/Latitude:
Exercises considerable latitude in determining technical objectives of assignment.
Completed work is reviewed from a relatively long- term perspective for desired results.
Supervision and guidance relate largely to overall objectives critical issues new concepts and policy matters.
Impact:
Essential to the completion of broad programs and projects.
Decisions recommendations and actions form the basis of site/local program schedules and personnel/fiscal resource utilization.
Leadership:
Leads efforts of group of peers directly supervises staff or project resources.
Guides the successful completion of major programs and may function in a project leadership role.
May be expected to directly supervise staff or project resources.
Liaison:
Represents the organization as the prime technical contact on contracts and projects.
Interacts with senior external personnel on significant technical matters often requiring coordination between organizations.
Regulatory:
Understands regulatory trends in industry and able to make connection between those trends and established corporate direction.
Some direct experience with FDA or equivalent regulatory body.
Represents the organization as the technical expert to endorse the organizations validation programs and practices.
Education:
Masters degree and 3 years of directly related experience.
Bachelors degree and 5 years of directly related experience.
Microbiology Biology Chemistry Engineering.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in Aseptic Process Simulation (Media Fills) Airflow Visualization Studies (Smoke Studies) Environmental Characterization/Qualification.
Experience in Parenteral Manufacturing Isolators.
Skills:
In-depth knowledge of validation processes and requirements.
Interacts effectively with variety of communication and working styles.
Ability to independently determine when additional internal resources are required to solve problems.
Ability to handle multiple projects at one time.
Demonstrated Skills in the following areas: schedule development facilitation collaboration.
Basic project management.
Completion and follow-up.
Technical expertise areas of validation engineering.
Ability to independently determine when additional external resources are required to solve problems.
Ability to provide solutions to a large variety of technical problems of moderate to large complexity and scope.
Problem solving skills requiring the application of scientific and engineering theory and calculations and creative skills in the development of hypotheses and approach.
Working knowledge of financial analysis tools.
Ability to delegate and manage the project work of others.
Demonstrated Skills in the following areas: Negotiation persuasion and facilitation collaboration project cost development conflict resolution decision making leadership and teambuilding management of contractors and vendors.
Work Methodology:
100%-On Site
3 months (1st Contract)
Administrative Shift(weekends and overtime may also be required).
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