Validation Engineers (France & Belgium)
Contract Types: Short-Term and Long-Term Projects
Industry: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Overview
Key Responsibilities
- Execute Commissioning, Qualification and Validation (CQV) activities across pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities.
- Prepare and review qualification documentation, including IQ, OQ, PQ protocols and reports.
- Perform equipment qualification activities for manufacturing and process equipment.
- Support process validation and cleaning validation programmes.
- Ensure all validation activities comply with GMP and internal quality standards.
- Collaborate with engineering, operations, quality assurance and project teams to deliver project milestones.
- Manage deviations, investigations, CAPAs and change controls related to validation activities.
- Participate in risk assessments and validation strategy development.
- Support commissioning and start-up activities for new equipment and manufacturing systems.
Requirements
Essential
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biotechnology or a related technical discipline.
- Proven experience within pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical or life sciences manufacturing environments.
- Strong CQV and/or Validation experience.
- Hands-on experience with non-sterile manufacturing equipment and processes.
- Knowledge of GMP, FDA and EU regulatory requirements.
- Experience writing and executing qualification and validation documentation.
- Professional proficiency in French.
Preferred
- Experience supporting capital projects, facility expansions or technology transfers.
- Exposure to process validation, cleaning validation or equipment qualification.
- Experience working within multinational project teams.
- Additional English language skills.
What's on Offer
- Multiple contract opportunities across leading pharmaceutical manufacturers in France and Belgium.
- Long-term and short-term assignments available.
- Opportunity to work on major pharmaceutical expansion and manufacturing projects.
- Competitive contract rates and flexible project durations.
- Collaborative international project environments.
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