Cleaning Validation Engineer

Minneapolis, United States | Posted on 10/19/2026

PSC Biotech provides the life sciences with essential services to ensure that health care products are developed, manufactured, and distributed to the highest standards, in compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements.

Our goal is to skyrocket our clients’ success, and you can be a part of our team’s achievements. Employing a global team of skilled professionals and experts that span across strategically located offices in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, we are proud of the roles we have fulfilled to help our clients achieve success.

With operations spanning the globe and featuring a multi-cultural team, PSC Biotech® is passionate about bringing the best and brightest together in an effort to form something truly special. When you make the decision to join our team, you will be offered the ability to feel inspired in your career, explore your professional passions, and work alongside a group of people who will value and nurture your talents.

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The Cleaning Validation Engineer Lead is responsible for leading the cleaning validation workstream supporting biopharmaceutical manufacturing operations. This role will provide technical and execution leadership for cleaning validation activities associated with production equipment, including harvest centrifuges, production bioreactors, CIP systems, and related process equipment.

The individual will oversee the development, modification, execution, review, and reporting of cleaning validation activities while ensuring alignment with GMP requirements, approved validation strategies, and client quality standards. As a workstream lead, this position will coordinate validation resources and execution activities, monitor deliverables and project priorities, provide technical guidance, and collaborate cross-functionally to drive the successful completion of cleaning validation milestones.

• Lead the cleaning validation workstream, including planning, coordination, execution, documentation, and completion of validation deliverables.
• Provide technical leadership and direction to engineers and other team members supporting cleaning validation activities.
• Develop, modify, review, approve, execute, and manage cleaning validation protocols for harvest centrifuges, production bioreactors, CIP systems, and associated manufacturing equipment.
• Establish workstream priorities, coordinate resources, and track cleaning validation activities against project schedules and milestones.
• Oversee protocol execution and ensure activities are completed in accordance with approved procedures, validation strategies, and acceptance criteria.
• Generate and review cleaning validation reports, ensuring execution results, deviations, conclusions, and supporting documentation are complete and technically sound.
• Lead the authoring, execution, review, and routing of validation protocols and associated documentation within Kneat.
• Coordinate and oversee on-site protocol execution activities, including swab and rinse sampling.
• Ensure sampling activities are appropriately planned, coordinated, documented, and executed in accordance with approved protocols and site procedures.
• Lead or support the investigation and resolution of protocol discrepancies, deviations, unexpected results, and documentation issues.
• Identify risks, constraints, and potential…