Engineering Specialist Process Equipment

Job Title: Engineering Specialist Process Equipment

Career level: D

Introduction to role:

Are you ready to own critical manufacturing process equipment and systems that accelerate how medicines reach patients? Do you want to turn complex technical challenges into reliable, efficient performance that enables high-quality, scalable production? How about joining a highly motivated engineering team embracing latest technology standards and developing autonomous manufacturing capabilities?

This role sits at the heart of our product lifecycle. You will lead technical ownership of key assets, drive site readiness, and ensure projects move from plan to implementation with pace and rigor. You will apply strategic thinking to develop long term asset management strategy and manage operating challenges and adherence to compliance. Partnering closely with manufacturing, quality, and project teams, you will apply Lean thinking and data analytics to raise standards, drive innovation, reduce risk, and deliver measurable value.

You will combine hands-on fixing with strategic decision making—selecting industry standards, leading new developments and creating investment opportunities, coordinating resources and translating learning into sustainable, efficient and compliant operations. If you thrive to grow professionally to technology mastery working with latest process technologies and want to work in a problem solving, data driven and continuous improvement community, this is your next step.

Accountabilities:

• Technical Ownership: Serve as the technical owner for defined areas of process equipment and systems, providing lead expertise and consultancy to collaborators to optimize performance, efficiency and reliability.
• Project Execution: Plan and deliver project activities from concept to implementation, contributing functional expertise and managing small teams where needed to achieve breakthroughs on time and on budget.
• Start-Up and Site Readiness: Prepare manufacturing areas for start-up, ensuring operational readiness, robust procedures, and smooth handover into standard operations.
• Operational asset management: Own assets and engineering system from start up into regular operations. Manage equipment health with suppliers and use advanced data analytics to drive continuous improvements, upgrades and innovation.
• Technical advancements: Identify, evaluate, and recommend technical options aligned with global or industry standards and local business priorities to increase quality, speed, and cost-effectiveness.
• Knowledge Leadership: Stay ahead of standard methodologies and new developments; translate learning into updated standards and ways of working to continuously improve operations.
• Asset Lifecycle Management: Own the lifecycle of equipment and engineering systems to guarantee performance, compliance, efficiency, and optimized cost of ownership.
• Fixing Leadership: Lead hands-on problem resolution, capture root causes, and codify findings into enduring solutions and standard work.
• Lean Problem Solving and Analytics: Apply Lean frameworks and data analytics to drive systematic problem solving, improve critical metrics, and eliminate waste.
• Process Governance and Reporting: Prepare governance documentation, asset status reports, forecasts, technical analytics, and recommendations that guide decisions and investments.
• Investment Cases and Capital Planning: Shape and lead investment applications and arguments with clear short- and long-term value propositions.
• Resource Coordination: Coordinate resources across operational and project teams to deliver outcomes, remove blockers, and maintain momentum.
• Compliance Stewardship: Ensure cGMP, SHE, and local regulatory compliance in your work and the work of others, embedding quality and safety into every decision.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Manages or provides technical support to project execution, start up and site operations readiness
• Acts as technical owner of specific area within engineering function and provide lead expertise in manufacturing process equipment’s and systems. Provides technical consultancy to collaborators.
• Manages and accomplishes project activities from planning through implementation and provides functional expertise to project owners. Capable in managing small teams on need basis.
• Identifies, evaluates, recommends and selects technical options to be adopted from global or industry standards and aligned with local business priorities and objectives
• Keeps own knowledge of standard methodologies and new developments up to date
• Takes ownership in managing asset life cycle for equipment and engineering systems to guarantee performance, compliance, efficiency and optimised cost of ownership
• Actively leads “hands on” trouble shooting activities resolving functional problems and translates learning to standard operations.
• Applies and effectively drives problem solving attitude by using lean framework and data analytics
• Gathers and analyses data related to establishing and maintaining business processes and procedures
• Prepares technical governance documentation and asset status reports, including but not limited to forecasting, alignment to key performance indicators, technical analytics, recommendations for improvement
• Leads preparations of investment applications, arguments with short / long term value and benefits
• Co-ordinates resources within the operational teams, project teams or across site to drive value outcome
• Ensure compliance of own work and work of others with cGMP, SHE standards and local laws

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Experience in pharmaceutical or highly regulated manufacturing environments, including equipment qualification and validation
• Proficiency with CMMS/asset management systems and reliability-centered maintenance practices
• Certification or formal training in Lean, Six Sigma, or continuous improvement
• Knowledge of automation and control systems (e.g., PLC, SCADA, DCS) for process equipment
• Competence in data analytics tools and visualization platforms to support decision making
• Strong stake holder management, change control, and capital project delivery experience
• Professional certification in project management (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2)

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Why AstraZeneca:

Here, your technical leadership directly advances how medicines move from idea to impact. You will work with diverse experts who sit side-by-side to spark bold thinking, using leading science, digital tools, automation, and Lean practices to scale reliably and sustainably. We value kindness alongside ambition, encourage ownership at every level, and provide the investment and exposure to grow your craft while contributing to ambitious sustainability goals and a smarter, faster manufacturing network—so your best work can help more patients, sooner.

Call to Action:

Step into this pivotal role and turn complex equipment challenges into faster, safer delivery of life-changing medicines—take the next step today!

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.