At AstraZeneca, we work together across global boundaries to make an impact and find answers to challenges. We do this with the upmost integrity even in the most difficult situations because we are committed to doing the right thing. We continuously forge partnerships that help pursue world-class medicines in new ways, combining our people’s exceptional skills with those of people from all over the globe.

Welcome to Coppell, Texas, one of over 400 sites here at AstraZeneca, providing a collaborative environment where everyone feels comfortable and able to be themselves is at the core of AstraZeneca’s priorities, it’s important to us that you bring your full self to work every day.

The Lokelma Supply Site (LSS) has recently remodeled office space to provide a pleasant office environment to support varying work styles and collaboration needs. LSS has an on-site cafe with a selection of snacks and refrigerated grab and go items for purchase. Additionally, the site offers a food delivery service through Foodsby, allowing employees to purchase food from a variety of local restaurants to be delivered to the site, which currently includes a discounted price for LSS employees.

This is a shift position working 7pm – 7am (work every other weekend)

As the Senior Process Engineer (12-Hour Night Shift role), you will bring relevant experience from pharmaceutical chemical processing or a large scale chemical manufacturing facility to manage, execute, and deliver new capital and non-capital projects, participate in design and safety reviews, interact and collaborate with other disciplines including external contractors, coach and mentor junior engineers, and provide technical leadership within the process engineering team.  May be asked to support investigations and correction of process related problems and deviations from standards.  

What you’ll do:

• Develops conceptual strategies, processing schemes, feasibility studies, PFD’s, and detailed scopes of work.
• Develops, reviews, and communicates detailed process design, including P&ID mark-ups, equipment process data sheets, process piping design, and ancillary equipment.
• Assists in developing control strategy and instrument process design, including emergency and shutdown procedures, instrument specification sheets, control ranges, and alarm points.
• Works on several different projects and prioritizes these projects with guidance.  Designs studies, executes experiments and perform data analysis.
• Writes study proposals, progress reports, development reports, user requirements, and various technical memos.  Evaluates new technologies to improve the commercial production process.
• Supports scale up activities from R&D to production and buildout of new facilities.  Provides required documentation to support compliance.
• Supports the assurance of a robust manufacturing process for the current registered process as experience is gained post launch.

Essential for the role:

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering or related discipline
• 5-7 years of direct chemical processing experience preferably in a pharmaceutical production environment.
• Experience in process design, Project Management, and Leading a team.  Hands-on experience in working with Chemical Operations and preferably API Manufacturing.
• Experience in reading/writing P&ID’s, Process Flow Diagrams, and mass and energy balances.
• Experience in batch type operations, large scale, high volume operations and demonstrated leadership skills.   Understanding of drug product supply chain needs.
• Experience in the following areas:  Process Chemistry scale up; validation activities for commercial production; reactors and drying processes; and, setting up new equipment trains – (URS, PID, DQ, IQ, OQ, PQ).

Desirable for the role:

• High temperature and high-pressure applications
• Experience with pressure filter dryer technology
• Experience with root cause investigations
• Lean certification or experience with lean concepts

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial -finding those moments and recognizing their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organization to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.

Next Steps – Apply today!

To be considered for this exciting opportunity, please complete the full application on our website at your earliest convenience – it is the only way that our Recruiter and Hiring Manager can know that you feel well qualified for this opportunity. If you know someone who would be a great fit, please share this posting with them.

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