Senior Process Engineer (12 months)

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.

With category leading brands such as Sensodyne, Voltaren and Centrum, built on trusted science and human understanding, and combined with our passion, knowledge and expertise, we’re uniquely placed to do this and to grow a strong, successful business.

This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special.

Senior Process Engineer - 12 month fixed-term contract

Department: OH Platform (QSC)

Responsibilities:

• Senior Process Engineer within the OH Platform team (Haleon QSC)
• The team supports the development, optimization and technical life cycle management of leading global Power Brands in the Oral Health category
• This role will work within the Supply Chain OH Technical group and offers exposure to a variety of solid, semi-solid and liquid dose forms and the opportunity to work with a diverse multi-functional team from marketers and research scientists/engineers in new product development, to lead manufacturing sites. This enables a wide breadth of exposure and understanding of the commercial business to be acquired. The role might be required travel to European and Global sites
• The role will be responsible for leading complex process development, scale up and Technical Transfers supporting future manufacturing strategy and complex maintenance projects liaising with several functions in R&D and QSC. In addition, he/she will act as technical lead for complex RM changes within the derisking or CoGs reduction programmes as well as providing manufacturing site support for process improvement initiatives. He/She will establish him/her self the first point of contact and expert for OH technical for product robustness reviews to ensure right first time commercialisation at sites. He/She will support GPOs for continuous improvement projects, BARs and Risk assessments as required. The role will work closely with scientists, Global Product Owners and Technical Leads within the wider team and will contribute to the capability built of more junior engineers.

Job Purpose

• The role will work in the OH Technical team supporting Oral Health Power Brands
• The role will have the opportunity to lead technical change controls, tech transfers or process continuous improvements and engage in the Innovation and Maintenance strategies for OH brands, working with Quality, R&D and manufacturing site teams, throughout technical changes ensuring robust commercial scale manufacturing processes are maintained
• Specifically, the role might support de-risking, scale up, cost saving and strategic growth projects providing the technical expertise to carry out the activities within our network. The role will have active participation on global complex projects, through developing partnerships to work with Procurement, external vendors and CMOs, Haleon manufacturing sites, R&D development Engineers/scientists, Category and Quality

Other key responsibilities will include:

• Provide technical support to Haleon and CMO (Contact Manufacturing Organisations) supply sites to solve complex technical issues on sharing learning approach to site technical independency.
• Participate in governance forums such as Product Technical Review Teams (PTRT), Technical Review Board (TRB) as SME.
• Support the technical transfers associated to Raw material/product/process changes to other sites
• Lead or participate in Technical Risk Assessments (TRA, MRA) and Product Strategy Control (PCS) related to investigations or changes associated with current products.
• Manage, analyse and identify trends in data as part of Continued Process Verification (CPV) to drive continuous improvement.
• Support sites as necessary in Root Cause Analysis Investigation as part of site deviation management (manufacturing issues, product release performance and/or customer complaints).
• Work with Material Science team and procurement teams on the interpretation of data to assess new alternative raw material suppliers.
• Create and /or Review and approve documents including MMI (Master Manufacturing Instruction), Change Controls, Technical Rationales, Evaluation Protocols/Reports, Investigation Reports.
• Provide technical support and review of Regulatory Documents.
• Build capability in the team for Tech Transfers and oversee the E2E roll out plan

Basic Qualifications:

BSc/BEng or equivalent level of qualification within Pharmaceutical Science/Process or Manufacturing Engineering/Chemical Engineering or equivalent industrial experience. In addition:

• Knowledge/Experience with of semi-solids and liquid formulations.
• Knowledge of statistical principles used in process capability assessments
• Knowledge/experience of manufacturing processes and equipment for semi-solid and liquid formulations.
• Knowledge of scientific methods, DoE, QbD and DtV.
• Technical writing skills for scientific documents are required as is demonstrated skill in problem solving and critical thinking.
• Knowledgeable in cGMP’s and general regulatory requirements.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred qualifications:

The following characteristics / experience would also be highly desirable:

• Experience in a Technical role at lead manufacturing site/global/regional team
• Experienced with the investigational techniques and tools for process investigations and Technical Risk Assessment.
• Knowledgeable in the principles of process validation.
• Knowledgeable in PLM
• Statistical knowledge and use of Statistica.
• Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point.
• Desirable proficiency using Veeva