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Principal Process Engineer

US - Mt. Vernon - IN💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-11 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead technical strategic initiatives and serve as skill area leader for pharmaceutical unit operations, focusing on mechanistic understanding of process-equipment interfaces and resolving complex manufacturing challenges.

Role type

Principal Process Engineer

Builds

Reduced-order mechanistic and physics-informed process models, technical strategies for manufacturing improvement, and support for product supply and technology transfer.

Domain

Pharmaceutical manufacturing, process engineering, CMC (Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls)

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

mechanistic modelling, physics-informed models, first-principles engineering, pharmaceutical unit operations, process scale-up, root cause analysis, CMC knowledge, scientific programming, data analysis, regulatory file authoring

Preferred skills

Lean and Six Sigma, Agile application, physical testing techniques, coding and programming languages

Technologies

digital tools for model development

Responsibilities

lead technical strategic initiatives, develop and deploy process models, resolve manufacturing challenges, support technology transfer, drive standardisation of equipment, contribute to product supply strategy

Seniority

Principal, technical leadership & strategy

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