Senior Process Engineer

Job Description

Jubilant HollisterStier, a subsidiary of Jubilant Pharma Holdings Inc., is currently recruiting a Senior Process Engineer to join our team!

What We Offer:

A culture that values growth and professional development opportunities, a highly competitive base salary, comprehensive health, dental, and disability insurance programs, a group retirement plan, and wellness programs. Jubilant HollisterStier is a rapidly growing company with offices in Kirkland, Quebec, and Spokane, Washington. As a fully integrated contract manufacturing organization, Jubilant HollisterStier is equipped to manufacture sterile injectable formulations, as well as solid and semi-solid dosage forms. Our four facilities in North America and India provide specialized manufacturing services for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical sectors. Jubilant HollisterStier is proudly part of the Jubilant Pharma family. For more information, visit www.jublhs.com.

We continue—with the utmost care for the environment and society—to create value for our clients and stakeholders by offering innovative products and cost-effective solutions through growth, profitability, and prudent resource investment. If you’re ready for a rewarding challenge, we invite you to take the first step and apply today!

Jubilant Pharma Holdings Inc. and all our subsidiaries are proud of the diversity of our workforce. Our goal is to have a workforce as diverse as the patients and clients we serve. We foster an inclusive environment where our employees can thrive and where differences are welcomed. By embracing our differences, we create products that benefit our patients, clients, and human health overall.

Purpose of the Job:

The Senior Process Engineer provides expertise primarily in the areas of pharmaceutical process engineering and technical transfer. This position will manage large-scale projects and multi-disciplinary teams. The process engineer will also provide technical direction for complex projects and exhibit superior communication skills with all levels of employees. The individual will be responsible for refining department and site processes and provide leadership and guidance to others.

Responsibilities:

General:

• Design, optimize and implement site manufacturing processes to improve efficiency, quality and sustainability


• Oversee and assess existing processes and workflows


• Establish and track process metrics to monitor process stability and discover areas for improvement


• Technical Transfer of new products from both internal and external clients


• Ownership of product process from initial quote to product retirement


• Evaluate incoming processes for robustness, efficiency and fit within JHS-Montreal


• Perform appropriate development work to define CPPs and CQAs to allow strong execution upon transfer to Manufacturing.


• Author validation study documents that demonstrate manufacturing processes are capable of consistently making acceptable product.


• Develop and execute validation studies to test and qualify new and improved manufacturing processes.


• Troubleshooting, oversight and/or sampling of events within Manufacturing will require occasional off-shift at-location support.


• Generate reports summarizing results of studies to document data collected; utilize data obtained to qualify site processes


• Review data summaries generated by other departments, assess the data for potential trends or conditions that may adversely impact the quality of the sterile products being manufactured, and ensure that corrective action measures are implemented when required/warranted.


• Participate in or perform deviation investigation and evaluation of impact


• Responsible for optimizing gross profit margin and minimizing deviation rate


• Provide necessary reviews for regulatory and client audits and provide responses to audit observations


• In-depth understanding of cGMP’s, European regulatory requirements, relevant USP chapters, and scientific principles associated with clean room operations and room classifications as they apply to media fills, sterilization and depyrogenation (dry heat and steam), endotoxin reduction, and microbiological monitoring and control.


• Minimal travel (<10%)

Level Specific:

• Expected to perform job functions autonomously and effectively.


• Expected to be an authority in pertinent scientific principles and applicable existing and new guidance.


• Expected to be an authority on technical aspects of site processes.


• Expected to provide leadership and guidance to others on these topics, as well as update and improve site practices and policies accordingly.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor of Science: Science, Engineering, or related field.

Experience Required:

• 10-15 years related Pharmaceutical experience or FDA regulated Industry Experience


• Supervisory or other Leadership Experience


• Project Management


• Master’s Degree counts as 2 years of experience


• Statistical Analysis


• Lean Manufacturing Principles

Skills Required:

• Project Management


• Microsoft Office


• Management of Multi-Disciplinary Team


• Communication with Internal/External customers


• Demonstrated ability to work through ambiguous and complex situations, influencing outcomes, and driving a multi-disciplinary team without formal authority


• Interacting with inspectors/auditors from regulatory agencies


• Ability to search for solutions or new applications in differing situations.

Salary ranges from $86,929 to $144,882 depending on education level and years of experience.

If qualified individuals with a disability need assistance in applying for this position, contact Human Resources at MTL-TalentAquisition@jubl.com informing us regarding the nature of your request and providing your contact information.

Join us, and be a part of our global success story!