Senior Process Engineer

Overview

Location:

Leiden, the Netherlands (hybrid 3 days per week onsite)
Duration: 12 months +

Hours:

40 hours per week
Imagine your next project maintaining and improving production processes while leading supportive processes to ensure continuous improvement as a Senior Process Engineer.
This is an opportunity to work as a Senior Process Engineer with Johnson & Johnson in Leiden, working 40 hours per week with a hybrid arrangement of 3 days per week onsite. At Johnson & Johnson, they believe health is everything. Their strength in healthcare innovation empowers them to build a world where sophisticated diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are more inquisitive and less invasive, and solutions are are personal.

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As a Sr Process Engineer, you’ll be at the heart of operations, maintaining and improving production processes while leading supportive processes to ensure continuous improvement. You’ll work closely with management and operations to drive decisions regarding process engineering and methods, aiming to produce comprehensive processes, operational efficiencies, and alignment with production goals. Your effective communication skills will be key as you interact with both internal and external customers.
Roles and responsibilities.
Responsibilities   You’ll embody Johnson & Johnson’s Leadership Imperatives and Credo in your daily interactions, setting a positive example for the team.
You will take ownership of Operations unit objectives, such as the introduction of new production processes and systems, and ensuring the smooth operation of existing processes.
You’ll supervise and continuously assess the process to ensure it operates within validated and regulatory limits, achieving expected output/yield, and collaborate with multi-functionally teams to develop strategies and implement improvements to minimize downtime and losses.
You’ll lead the management of data collection, analysis, and reporting to drive continuous process improvement, ensuring compliant documentation and accurate completion of process records.
You’ll initiate and drive process improvements in collaboration with partners, and support formal issue processes to highlight risks related to safety, product quality, and regulatory compliance.
You’ll be the go-to guide for sophisticated Product Impact Assessments and Change Control designs, from initiation to completion.
You’ll conduct Gemba walks to view the process performed by the manufacturing operators and lead sustainable improvements to enhance safety, quality, reliability, cost, and scheduling.
You’ll engage in Continuous Process Verification (CPV) activities by providing information and performing additional research.
You will be the subject matter expert for inspections and audits.
How to succeed   A relevant University degree or equivalent experience with 6 years of shown experience (PG 25) or 4 years (PG24).
English C1 language level is required.
Proven experience and in depth knowledge of chromatography/downstream process is required.
Intermediate proficiency in MS Office, routine proficiency in data analysis, and specialist proficiency in business applications.
A positive demeanour, proactivity, decisiveness, and organizational skills, with the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Strong analytical thinking, with the ability to handle complexity, ask questions, use data, identify gaps and root causes of issues, and think creatively to develop solutions.
Stress-resilience, maintaining calm under all circumstances, flexibility, and the ability to handle changing priorities.

This role offers a very competitive hourly rate. This contract will run for 12 months +
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