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Sr. GMP Manufacturing Process/Plant Engineer (On-Site)

NetSource, Inc.Wilson, NC🇺🇸United StatesPosted 12 Aug 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This role offers a significant opportunity to shape critical drug substance manufacturing processes and gain extensive experience with equipment design, vendor management, and facility start-ups within a respected company. If you are a detail-oriented engineer with a strong GMP background and a passion for bringing complex projects to life, this position is an excellent fit for your career growth. Apply today to contribute to groundbreaking advancements in biopharmaceutical manufacturing.

Quick Overview

Work Type
On Site
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Please note that this is a Contract position and is On-Site.

Job Description:

Key requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Chemical or Mechanical Engineering preferred
  • Experience with equipment design, FAT/SAT execution, and startup activities in a drug substance manufacturing facility
  • Proven experience managing equipment vendors

Top Skills required:

  • Drug substance
  • Equipment design
  • Start-up activities
  • FAT

Essential Skills:

  • A minimum of eight (8) years of process/plant engineering experience in GMP MFG large molecule biologics facilities.
  • Experience in green or brown field GMP MFG facility start-up including process systems, automation, utilities, facilities and operations.
  • Strong technical background in Process and Manufacturing engineering, strong analytical skills to synthesize business needs, manufacturing requirements, engineering elements, and technology inputs.

Qualifications:

Minimum of a Bachelors or equivalent University Degree required in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering
MS/MBA/Ph.D. PE Certificate preferred Experience

Key Responsibilities:

Extensive interaction with external partners (A&E, construction firms, equipment vendors) to develop, organize and execute project plans as SME and process systems owner. The incumbent should demonstrate the following: detail and goal oriented, teamwork, customer-focus, thorough understanding of GMPs and regulatory requirements.
Serve as Process Engineering Expert to develop business based technology solutions and provide integrated equipment, utility, and facility engineering expertise with an operational focus to support execution of strategic and key CAPEX manufacturing projects, driving right first time start up and execution.
Provide strong technical leadership and expertise for technology transfers and new technology development projects to ensure process fit to plant methodology and practices..
Explore and understand Technology and Manufacturing challenges and synthesize business needs, manufacturing requirements, engineering elements, and technology inputs, etc. into business solutions.
Provide technical leadership of multi-functional teams on many projects/ process improvements and resolves inter-functional issues.
High degree of collaboration with internal (manufacturing, quality, engineering) to develop standards and define project needs and priorities; as well as recruiting project team members.
The incumbent must also have a thorough understanding of business requirements, effective communication skills, leadership, and interdependent partnering, conflict and risk management.

Position Summary:

Support the deployment of the MTO aspiration to innovate to safely supply quality products and services competitively, faster, always .
Responsible for providing advanced engineering design and start-up of GMP large molecule biologics manufacturing facility systems, and equipment.
Provide integrated equipment, utility, and facility engineering expertise with an operational focus in support of technology transfer and manufacturing projects to support right first time execution and start up.
Drive innovative solutions in engineering support, and process technology.
Coordinate with Technical Operations platform to ensure project alignment with technology standards and engineering specifications for manufacturing technology.
This is intended to be a general job description and should not be construed as all-inclusive.

Candidates must provide their phone number. Job reference number is A5480.

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