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.

About the role

• Responsible for the process development, scale-up, and technology transfer of new products for New Product Development projects for semi-solid and liquid Oral Healthcare products
• This position covers a broad range of challenges – from pioneering new technology routes to strengthening existing formulations, validating processes, and establishing networks of internal and external collaborators, academia, suppliers and external partners
• Develops manufacturing processes at all stages of the development process, taking into account scientific and timing objectives. Will serve as the point of contact for resourcing of process development activities for new product development pipeline projects within the Scale Up Engineering Team

Key responsibilities

• Manage the manufacturing, scale-up of development batches, conduct technology transfer of new products into commercial manufacturing facilities, and implement cleaning verification/validation of process equipment as needed, to the required cGMP and Health & Safety standards.
• Manage the manufacture of new products at small and pilot scale to supply product for use in pivotal stability, human use testing and commercial trials.
• Develops in-depth understanding of the new products in terms of processing impacts on formulation, their interactions and effects on finished product.
• Write and/or review/authorise GMP-critical documentation, such as experimental reports, validation protocols, batch records, development and technology transfer reports.
• Demonstrates technical writing ability in order to share scale-up results for publication.  Present findings to the wider community to help embed understanding of process development and scale-up concepts.
• Lead the scale-up/down between Laboratory, Pilot & Commercial scale.
• Plan and implement process development experiments at laboratory and/or pilot plant scale, using agreed Operational Excellence/Quality by Design tools such as TRA and DoE.
• Capable of planning, executing and delivering manufacturing campaigns within specified timeframes. Be comfortable in operating processing equipment with an ability to quickly learn with new equipment and processes.
• Able to manage workload including time management and effective stakeholder communications.
• Work within multifunctional teams, building good working relationships with all parties and be point of contact for some projects whilst supporting other projects as well.
• Support of equipment validation
• Act as role model to other staff to share best practices.

Qualifications and skills

Essentials:

• Demonstrated experience of working within a cGMP regulated environment (Medical Device, Licenced Products)
• Demonstrated ability to design, develop, and scale-up processes for semi-solid products from laboratory/pilot scale to full scale manufacturing
• Provide engineering and processing knowledge to assist in driving new innovative platform technologies into commercial manufacturing facilities
• Ability to undertake Root Cause Analysis activities in identifying and resolving issues
• Competent at problem solving and understanding processes through applying fundamental scientific and engineering principles

Preferred:

• Develop scale-up/down understanding and product/process characterisation
• Lead the scale-up/down between laboratory, pilot & commercial scale, developing an understanding or developing scaling rules that can be used by other engineers
• Demonstrated understanding of process validation principles, statistics and design of experiments (DoE) and computer literacy
• Excellent communications and team working skills – able to interact with people at all levels
• Demonstrated flexibility with the ability to adjust working plans and manage time to accommodate the dynamic nature of real-life projects.

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone.

We’re striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives.

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

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At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. We're striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.
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