Manufacturing​/Production Engineer

Manufacturing Engineer in Albuquerque, NM

Build your future at Curia, where our work has the power to save lives

Curia is a global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) with over 30 years of experience partnering with pharmaceutical and biotech companies to provide life-­saving treatments to patients. At Curia, we are on a mission to advance our customers’ therapies from curiosity to cure and ultimately to improve patients’ lives.

• Generous benefit options (eligible first day of employment)
• Paid training, vacation and holidays (vacation accrual begins on first day of employment)
• Career advancement opportunities
• Education reimbursement
• 401K program with matching contributions
• Learning platform
• And more!

The Manufacturing Engineer plays a critical role within the manufacturing operations team and is assigned to a designated manufacturing shift. This position provides technical leadership and engineering support for the manufacture of sterile parenteral products in a controlled and aseptic environment, ensuring safe, compliant, and efficient operations. The Manufacturing Engineer partners with cross-­functional teams to optimize manufacturing processes, improve equipment reliability and performance, resolve technical challenges, and support continuous improvement initiatives.

This role requires a strong foundation in engineering principles, including equipment reliability, maintenance strategies, process optimization, and operational excellence, while maintaining a strong presence within manufacturing operations to support business needs.

• Provide day-to-day technical and operational leadership for assigned manufacturing shift activities to ensure safety, quality, compliance, and production objectives are achieved
• Lead and support manufacturing operations involving vial preparation, isolator operations, aseptic filling, and vial sealing activities.
• Ensure production schedules and operational requirements are met through effective coordination of manufacturing activities.
• Train personnel on equipment setup, operation, sanitization, sterilization, and manufacturing processes within cleanroom environments.
• Participate in departmental and site training initiatives to maintain technical competency and support employee development.
• Drive activities and resolutions to improve process flow, safety, and overall production efficiency by identifying bottlenecks and fostering a culture of continuous improvement
• Identify and resolve complex manufacturing issues through collaboration with quality, engineering, and technical operations management
• Manages area of responsibility by ensuring compliance with cGMP standards, overseeing the proper operation and maintenance of equipment, and coordinating the sanitation and sterilization processes, as well as to maintain a controlled aseptic environment
• Ensures compliance with Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) regulations during controlled substance formulations and verifies that staff adheres to these regulations
• Ensures the timely processing and proper execution of deviations, assessments, investigations & CAPA’s
• Manages the preparation and sterilization processes of equipment for clean rooms, product compounding, and filling according to the preparation list, to include disassembly and assembly
• Responsible for checking the recordings entered by employees of all procedures in logbooks as well as confirm complete/correct batch records according to cGDP
• Oversees the staff to complete the sanitization of aseptic/controlled production areas to ensure microbial contamination is reduced to a safe level on inanimate surfaces
• Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) for equipment failures and…