Chemical Process Engineer

Join our Operations team as a Chemical Process Engineer at our Haverhill manufacturing site to play a crucial role in ensuring that chemical processes are efficient, safe, and compliant with regulatory standards.

The Chemical Process Engineer is an essential role for ensuring that our chemical manufacturing processes are not only efficient and cost-effective but also meet the stringent standards required for producing high-quality, safe products.

Your Responsibilities

You will:

• Develop and optimize chemical processes to improve efficiency and product quality.
• Design and implement process control systems to ensure consistent production.
• Ensure all processes comply with GMP, FDA, and other regulatory requirements.
• Maintain detailed documentation, including process flow diagrams, SOPs, and batch records.
• Conduct risk assessments and implement corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).
• Collaborate with quality assurance teams to ensure product quality and safety.
• Lead and manage process improvement projects.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams, including R&D, production, and quality.
• Provide technical support for troubleshooting and resolving process-related issues.
• Provide solutions to process related issues.
• Provide data analysis and interpretation, to recommend changes to optimise the process improvements.
• Train and mentor junior engineers and technicians.

Our Company

EUROAPI is focused on reinventing active ingredient solutions to sustainably meet customers’ and patients’ needs around the world. We are a leading player in active pharmaceutical ingredients with approximately 200 products in our portfolio, offering a large span of technologies, while developing innovative molecules through our Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) activities.

Taking action for health by enabling access to essential therapies inspires our 3,450 people every day. With strong research and development capabilities and six manufacturing sites all located in Europe (Saint-Aubin-lès-Elbeuf and Vertolaye in France, Brindisi in Italy, Frankfurt in Germany, Budapest in Hungary and Haverhill in the UK), EUROAPI ensures API manufacturing of the highest quality to supply customers in more than 80 countries.

EUROAPI is listed on Euronext Paris.

The EUROAPI Haverhill (UK) site has been established for forty years, located fifteen miles east of Cambridge and sixty miles north of London, within the golden triangle. It employs over 250 people and has built a strong reputation in Flow Chemistry, Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) Spray Drying and as a Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation (CDMO). Haverhill is proud to house the world’s largest, continuous production, pharmaceutical spray dryer and performs secondary packaging and release activities for oncology and rare disease medicines supporting global markets. The site also offers a contract testing and release facility within its laboratories.

Our Requirements

• Degree in Chemical Engineering
• Certifications in GMP and regulatory compliance highly desirable

• Strong knowledge of chemical process engineering principles
• Experience with process simulation software and control systems
• Proficiency in GMP documentation and regulatory requirements
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities
• Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines
• Proven Industrial scale up experience from either lab to pilot plant or pilot plant to commercial activities
• Proven experience of spray drying activities

Your Benefits

• Attractive Salary

• Competitive benefits

• Training & Development

• Onsite subsidised restaurant

Culture & Values at EUROAPI

We bring our culture to life in the way we work every day. Our culture enables career development and talent management, we recognise that how we do things is as important as what we do, and our values set out how we achieve our goals and help us "do it right".

Diversity & Inclusion

EUROAPI is committed to nurturing a culture of diversity and inclusion that contributes to improving innovation, performance, and engagement. We value transparency, mutual respect, and equal treatment of people. For this reason, we are firm in protecting our employees against any forms of discrimination.

We are Disability Confident - Committed which means we make reasonable adjustments to our process and offer interviews to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. If you would like any assistance or require the application to be completed in a different format, please call or contact our Haverhill site reception.

Environment, Social and Governance

We strongly believe that the success of our company lies in its capacity to adapt to tomorrow’s challenges. Our responsibility as a company is to provide sustainability and resilience to the pharmaceutical value chain.

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