Senior Process Engineer - Cambridgeshire - Pharmaceuticals
- Recruiter
- Vivid Resourcing London
- Location
- Cambridge
- Salary
- Neg.
- Posted
- 18 Jan 2017
- Closes
- 26 Jan 2017
- Sectors
- Engineering
- Contract Type
- Contract
- Hours
- Full Time
My client is a blue chip pharmaceutical company in the Cambridgeshire region. They are currently seeking a principle process engineer to join their team on a 24 month contract. Rates will be between GBP60-65 per hour.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Develops conceptual strategies, processing schemes, feasibility studies, PFD's, mass and energy balances, and detailed scopes of work
- Develops detailed process design, including P&ID markups, equipment process data sheets, process piping design, and ancillary equipment
- Works on several different projects and prioritizes these projects with guidance
- Assists in developing control strategy and instrument process design, including emergency and shutdown procedures, instrument specification sheets, control ranges, alarm points, and DCS strategy
- Designs studies, executes experiments and perform data analysis
- Writes study proposals, progress reports, development reports, and various technical memos
- Evaluates new technologies to improve the commercial production process
- Supports scale up activities from R&D to production
- Provides required documentation to support compliance
- Provides miscellaneous overhead support of facility
- Supports the assurance of a robust manufacturing process for the current registered process as experience is gained post launch
- Sets up robust process for trouble shooting
- Acts as an effective change agent
- Acts as a key player for the expansion of projects to increase scale of manufacture
- Participates in the development of additional staff
Essential Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, plus a minimum of 5-7 years of direct chemical processing experience preferably in a pharmaceutical production environment
- Hands-on experience in working with Chemical Operations and preferably API Manufacturing
- Experience in reading/writing P&ID's, Process Flow Diagrams, and mass and energy balances
- Experience in batch type operations
- Experience with large scale, high volume operations
- Experience with automatic process controls (PLC, DCS)
- Demonstrated leadership skills
- Understanding of drug product supply chain needs
- Experience in the following areas: Process Chemistry scale up; validation activities for commercial production; reactors and drying processes; and, setting up new equipment trains - (URS, FS, PID, IQ, OQ, PQ)
Desirable Requirements
- Capital project experience (CAPEX)
- High temperature and high pressure applications
- Experience with pressure filter dryer technology
- Root cause investigation training
- Lean certification
If interested or you know anyone that would be, drop in an up-to-date version of your cv to ********************************
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Develops conceptual strategies, processing schemes, feasibility studies, PFD's, mass and energy balances, and detailed scopes of work
- Develops detailed process design, including P&ID markups, equipment process data sheets, process piping design, and ancillary equipment
- Works on several different projects and prioritizes these projects with guidance
- Assists in developing control strategy and instrument process design, including emergency and shutdown procedures, instrument specification sheets, control ranges, alarm points, and DCS strategy
- Designs studies, executes experiments and perform data analysis
- Writes study proposals, progress reports, development reports, and various technical memos
- Evaluates new technologies to improve the commercial production process
- Supports scale up activities from R&D to production
- Provides required documentation to support compliance
- Provides miscellaneous overhead support of facility
- Supports the assurance of a robust manufacturing process for the current registered process as experience is gained post launch
- Sets up robust process for trouble shooting
- Acts as an effective change agent
- Acts as a key player for the expansion of projects to increase scale of manufacture
- Participates in the development of additional staff
Essential Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, plus a minimum of 5-7 years of direct chemical processing experience preferably in a pharmaceutical production environment
- Hands-on experience in working with Chemical Operations and preferably API Manufacturing
- Experience in reading/writing P&ID's, Process Flow Diagrams, and mass and energy balances
- Experience in batch type operations
- Experience with large scale, high volume operations
- Experience with automatic process controls (PLC, DCS)
- Demonstrated leadership skills
- Understanding of drug product supply chain needs
- Experience in the following areas: Process Chemistry scale up; validation activities for commercial production; reactors and drying processes; and, setting up new equipment trains - (URS, FS, PID, IQ, OQ, PQ)
Desirable Requirements
- Capital project experience (CAPEX)
- High temperature and high pressure applications
- Experience with pressure filter dryer technology
- Root cause investigation training
- Lean certification
If interested or you know anyone that would be, drop in an up-to-date version of your cv to ********************************