Principal Process Engineer

Welcome to Haleon. We’re a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we’ve grown, evolved and are now entering an exciting new chapter – one filled with bold ambitions and enormous opportunity.

Our trusted portfolio of brands – including Sensodyne® , Panadol® , Advil® , Voltaren® , Theraflu® , Otrivin® , and Centrum® – lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.

Now it’s time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose – to deliver better everyday health with humanity – at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture.

The Principal Process Engineer develops manufacturing and the control strategy for R&D Innovation projects and provides technical leadership for process development, scale-up, pilot plant, and commercial-scale manufacturing activities. This role works closely with the Richmond-based pilot plant team, global innovation scientists and manufacturing site teams by providing technical direction across multiple projects and leading the technical transfer of products from the prototype through commercialization to deliver robust, scaleable, and commercially viable manufacturing processes.

• Own the end-to-end manufacturing process and control strategy for NPIs, ensuring products consistently meet defined quality, regulatory, and consumer-centric performance requirements.
• Lead process development, scale-up, characterization, and technical transfer from laboratory or pilot scale through commercial manufacturing under cGMP standards.
• Independently manage 5–8 complex, technically demanding projects simultaneously across drug products, cosmetics, dietary supplements, and medical devices.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for key dosage forms and processing equipment, including equipment selection, start-up, qualification, troubleshooting, and lifecycle support.
• Apply Quality by Design, DOE, risk assessment, and process capability principles to build robust, efficient, qualifiable, and validatable manufacturing processes.
• Provide technical leadership across R&D, Quality, Supply Chain, Operations, EHS, maintenance, logistics, and external partners, driving effective decisions and timely delivery.
• Deliver commercialization-ready technical documentation and execution, including development reports, control strategies, batch records, technology-transfer packages, change controls, safety assessments, training, and material/equipment readiness.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Chemical or Biomedical Preferred), Chemistry, Biology or Pharmaceutical Sciences
• 10+ years’ experience in manufacturing process development (Chemical, Food, Consumer Health / FMCG or Pharmaceutical Industries)
• 10+ years’ experience in cGMP requirements
• Ability to travel up to 50%

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters or Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering (Chemical or Biomedical Preferred), Chemistry, Biology or Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Operational Excellence, Lean, Six Sigma, or continuous improvement experience.
• Ability to translate Category and OU strategy into prioritization and delivery
• Experience making sound decisions in regulated environments while balancing speed, compliance, quality, cost, supply resilience, and long-term technical stewardship.
• Experience in Operational Excellence (e.g. Agile, Six Sigma, Lean, etc…)
• Experience with direct or indirect leadership including mentoring or teaching other…