Validation & Engineering Group, Inc. (V&EG) is a leading services supplier who provides solutions for the Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Chemical, Food, and Medical Devices industries in the following areas: Laboratory, Compliance, Computer, Engineering, Project Management, Validation, and other services.

We are seeking a talented, dedicated individual committed to work under the highest ethics standards for the following position:

• Process Development Scientist

Description:

Provide direct support to the requirement, design, and characterization of inspection/packaging process, process optimization strategies and/or troubleshooting of operational issues in the operations. Apply advanced and diverse engineering principles to the design and implementation of system, equipment or process modifications, experiments, process and/or capital projects. Develop, organize, analyze and present interpretation of results for operational issues or engineering projects.

Requirements:

1. Provide advanced technical support the plant automatic packaging equipment and processes.
   1. Strong Knowledge on Vision system technologies.
   2. Inspection/packaging Concepts Knowledge.
   3. Strong Knowledge with local process flow, layouts and general packaging SOP’s to be able to define details of serialization solution.
2. Support troubleshooting, investigations, root cause analysis related to the packaging area and inspection process.
3. Identify and implement initiatives in the inspection/packaging processes in order to reduce manufacturing operational costs while maintaining product quality.
4. Development and Execution of Processes Characterization.
   • Establish Testing Strategies
   • Design / Development of Characterization Protocols
   • Technical Reports Development
   • Validations, and technical reports- To support SATs executions, document generation and challenge validations strategies.
   • Risk assessments and QRAES knowledge, to support risk assessments activities.
5. Project execution activities coordination (Material requests, Trainings, Production Windows, Work Orders generation)
6. General skills:
   • Technical Documentation abilities Oral and written.
   • Documentation software (MS word, Excel, Power point, PDF, Visio, MS project).
   • Project management basic concepts (timeline follow up, schedule reviews, predecessor).
   • Flexibility in working time based on project needs, including 1st, 2nd and 3rd shifts and extended hours up to 12 hrs.
   • People skills for OEM’s and interdisciplinary share.
   • Self-driven and schedule oriented.

Education:

• Master degree and 5 years of Scientific experience or bachelor's degree and 6 years of Scientific experience.