Engineer for microbiological process validation (m/f/d)

Founded in 1968, SKAN is one of the pioneer companies in the specialist areas of cleanroom equipment and the development of isolators for the pharmaceutical industry. Innovative products, customer-specific solutions, and a high-performance service and support organization have made SKAN a market leader and important partner for industry and research laboratories.

At a glance

We are looking for a motivated Process Validation Engineer (PVE) for the Process Validation Microbiology (PVM) department. The PVM team consists of professionals with different cultural, academic, and professional backgrounds. Our team specializes in the development and validation of decontamination processes (H2O2 and E-Beam) for pharmaceutical isolators, which are a key element in the aseptic manufacture of sterile drugs. As a member of this team, you will have the opportunity to travel worldwide to support our pharmaceutical customers in their life-saving projects. This function therefore includes international travel to our customers of up to 50%.

Tasks

• Development, validation, and implementation of decontamination processes
• Creation of test protocols and test reports
• Enabling customer-oriented decontamination processes with a maximum level of safety and efficiency
• Process optimization and requalification of existing processes as well as customer-oriented troubleshooting and consulting
• Conducting internal and external training for customers
• Support for cross-functional technological improvements and innovations
• Assistance in the maintenance, updating, and improvement of internal SOPs, as well as documentations and workflows

Hardskills

• A university degree (Bachelor or Master) in life sciences, engineering, or technology is required
• Ideally, experience in one of the sterilization technologies (steam, irradiation, or ETO) and/or isolator decontamination (H2O2 and/or E-Beam)
• Experience in the field of cleanroom qualification in the medical technology and/or pharmaceutical industry is also valuable
• Experience in process validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) is an advantage
• Very good English skills are required, any further foreign language is a plus

Softskills

• You bring a professional, reliable way of working, especially for customer contact (internal as well as external), and can take individual responsibility
• You are also a motivated personality who enjoys working carefully and in accordance with GMP
• You are comfortable dealing with different cultures and enjoy working collegially and in a team-oriented manner with others
• Due to assignments that cannot always be planned far in advance, you possess the necessary flexibility

We offer

• An open and collegial corporate culture
• Freedom for ideas
• Participation in sports and leisure activities
• Support through further training, especially at our SKAN Academy
• Intensive and job-oriented induction
• Short decision-making paths and flat hierarchies
• Open communication policy
• 5 weeks vacation and the possibility of additional vacation days

Further information

We look forward to receiving your complete application documents (CV, diplomas, and work certificates), which you can submit directly via our career page.

For this vacancy, we rely on direct applications and do not work with external agencies. Submitted dossiers from agencies will not be processed.

If you have any questions, please contact Viviane Braxton.