Senior Engineer - Process

Our Frederick Manufacturing Center (FMC) creates life-changing medicines for people around the world and has been recognized by our local community as being a Top 50’ Business in Frederick and awarded Frederick County’s ‘Best Place to Work’. This distinctive biologic manufacturing facility, with over 800 employees, makes a direct contribution to treating people with cancer, respiratory and autoimmune conditions across the globe.  We work hard to deliver life-changing medicines to patients, and we take time to have fun and celebrate our accomplishments. From catered site festivities to competitive events, community outreach activities, environmental and wellness showcases and team-building functions, we take time to recognize our achievements and celebrate our diversity.  We are dedicated to creating a culture of inclusion and collaboration and are committed to continuous learning by offering ongoing skill building and training for our staff.  Fueled by our aspiration to deliver accelerated growth for our company and to make people’s lives better, there’s never been a more exciting time to join the team and shape the future of AstraZeneca Operations.

Join our Operations team at AstraZeneca as a Sr. Engineer, Process Facilities. In this role, you will be responsible for providing technical support to the manufacturing, laboratory, and logistics buildings at the Frederick Manufacturing Center (FMC). Your expertise will be crucial in troubleshooting, modifications and improvements related to plant utilities, clean utilities, controlled temperature units (CTUs), electrical systems, Building Management Systems (BMS) and Environment Management Systems (EMS), HVAC, and other equipment involving filtered air. 

Accountabilities:

You will be knowledgeable and capable of leading tours in all areas of the production module. You will be a subject matter expert in monoclonal antibody product flow through the various production areas and how that may impact equipment utilization. You will possess expertise in following, troubleshooting, and making basic changes in PLC and distributed control systems, HMIs, and data historians. You will also have extensive years of experience interfacing with regulatory audits by answering questions and defending position documented in quality records​

Possess knowledge in at least two production areas below; understand how recipes/phases are used to operate process equipment and ability to recommend/update maintenance activities:

Upstream equipment:

• Incubators

• Bioreactors

• Centrifuges

• Pasteurizer

Downstream equipment:

• Chromatography columns

• Viral inactivation

• Ultrafiltration

• Diafiltration

• Freeze/thaw

In this role, you'll also be responsible for optimizing circuit operation through your expertise in cleaning and sterilization strategies for process vessels and transfer lines. You will use your analytical skills to solve equipment-related issues using real-time or historical data. You will also act as a consultant to the process engineering group, interfacing with regulatory audits, answering questions, and defending positions documented in quality records.

Essential Skills/Experience:
- 5+ years of relevant experience
- 3+ years of industry experience
- BA/BS Engineering/Life Science

Desirable Skills/Experience:
- MS/MBA

At AstraZeneca, we take Quality seriously. We are proactive, science-based, and solutions-oriented. Our focus is on scaling and introducing new technologies, using models to predict and proactively manage risk. We are strong communicators and networkers. With constant exposure to different tasks we're at our best when we're working together as a team. We get our pipeline out to patients sustainably, reliably and safely. The voice of the patient is our guiding principle. We certify every batch and ensure manufacturing supplies move without challenges.

Are you ready to take the responsibility to ensure our pipeline becomes a reality? Join us in diligently ensuring our patients receive quality and safe medicines, responding to a large variety of, often complex, demands. Apply now to be part of our ambitious team!

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorisation and employment eligibility verification requirements.