Sr Process Engineering
Brooklyn Park, MN - USA
Job Summary
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Job Description
About the Role:
Serve as the Engineering subject matter expert for a specific process area (cell culture harvest purification clean-in-place or utilities systems)
Ensure systems remain in a qualified state. Act as technical owner for system lifecycle including design installation qualification production support deviation resolution maintenance and decommissioning
Monitor system reliability and performance. Develop and implement engineering solutions to complex problems. Lead programs related to system qualification asset management project execution and Good Engineering Practices. Support development of site staff on technical and procedural topics
How you will contribute:
- Develop engineering deliverables including Process Flow Diagrams P&IDs System Specifications and Functional Specifications
- Implement system modifications under cGMP change control
- Develop and execute FAT commissioning protocols and qualification protocols
- Develop calibration and preventative maintenance plans
- Lead deviation investigations and implement corrective and preventative actions
- Participate in capital planning spending and tracking
- Serve as project manager on small to medium projects under $5M
- Interface with cross-functional teams to meet project goals
- Stay current with industry best practices and technologies
- Complete required training within timeframe
- Selecting technologies designing equipment and diagnosing process issues
- Making data-driven decisions using engineering principles
- Ensuring impact to product quality safety reliability and throughput
- Maintaining regulatory compliance and validation requirements
- Troubleshooting factory floor issues and supporting capacity planning
- Managing impact to uptime batch continuity and manufacturing schedule
- Responding to urgency and severity of equipment failures
- Determining escalation thresholds
- Balancing short-term mitigation versus long-term solutions
- Perform other duties as assigned
What you bring to Takeda:
- Bachelors degree in Engineering
- 3 or more years of relevant experience
- Experience in pharmaceutical or biotechnology manufacturing environment
- Engineer-in-Training (EIT) or Professional Engineer license preferred
- Demonstrated track record supporting process operations and projects in an FDA-regulated environment
- Knowledge of engineering principles including fluid mechanics heat transfer thermodynamics and mass transfer
- Experience applying project management methodologies
- Understanding of commissioning and qualification protocol development
- Direct experience with systems such as bioreactors centrifugation chromatography tangential flow filtration CIP autoclaves clean utilities and HVAC
- Familiarity with instrumentation and sensing technologies in pharmaceutical manufacturing
- Experience with regulatory requirements and GMP environments
- Experience supporting large capital projects
- Familiarity with batch control systems data historians SQL and scripting (preferred)
- Knowledge of automation PLCs power systems and controls (desirable)
- Proficient in MS Office (Word Excel PowerPoint) and MS Project
- Ability to work in fast-paced cross-functional teams
- Strong planning prioritization and escalation judgment
Important Considerations
At Takeda our patients rely on us to deliver quality products. As a result we must follow strict rules in our manufacturing facilities to ensure we are not endangering the quality of the this role you may:
- Combination of sedentary work and facility walkdowns
- Occasional ladder climbing
- Ability to lift up to 25 lbs
- Participation in 24/7 on-call rotation
- Use of PPE and clean room garments as required
- Infrequent travel up to approximately 25% during project activities
More about us:
At Takeda we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.
Certified as a Global Top Employer Takeda offers stimulating careers encourages innovation and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive collaborative workplace in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.
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Takeda Compensation and Benefits Summary
We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. We are committed to equitable pay for all employees and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices.
For Location:
Brooklyn Park MNU.S. Base Salary Range:
$89900.00 - $141240.00
The estimated salary range reflects an anticipated range for this position. The actual base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors including the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position years of relevant experience specific and unique skills level of education attained certifications or other professional licenses held and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the actual base salary offered will be in accordance with state or local minimum wage requirements for the job location.
U.S. based employees may be eligible for short-term and/ or long-term incentives. U.S. based employees may be eligible to participate in medical dental vision insurance a 401(k) plan and company match short-term and long-term disability coverage basic life insurance a tuition reimbursement program paid volunteer time off company holidays and well-being benefits among others. U.S. based employees are also eligible to receive per calendar year up to 80 hours of sick time and new hires are eligible to accrue up to 120 hours of paid vacation.
EEO Statement
Takeda is proud in its commitment to creating a diverse workforce and providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity gender expression parental status national origin age disability citizenship status genetic information or characteristics marital status status as a Vietnam era veteran special disabled veteran or other protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal state and local laws and any other characteristic protected by law.
Locations
Brooklyn Park MNWorker Type
EmployeeWorker Sub-Type
RegularTime Type
Full timeJob Exempt
YesRequired Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Takeda is a patient-focused, R&D-driven global biopharmaceutical company committed to bringing Better Health and a Brighter Future.