Process Engineer

Be part of a dynamic team that provides end-to-end technical expertise across the process lifecycle - from development and design to technology transfer and commercial manufacturing. In this role, you’ll drive seamless collaboration between R&D, Manufacturing, Engineering, Validation and Quality to enhance process performance robustness, efficiency, and compliance.

What you’ll do

• Define and implement control strategies for new and existing processes and platforms.
• Leverage process understanding to reduce variability, enhancing product quality and patient safety.
• Lead technology transfer, scale-up, and process optimisations to ensure robust manufacturing performance.
• Partner with cross‑functional teams to optimise process, equipment, and utilities performance for compliant, effective manufacturing.
• Apply QbD, Lean Six Sigma, and data analytics as the process SME to support validation activities and enhance process robustness and control.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives and proactively manage technical and scientific risks to maintain a validated state of control.
• Provide expert technical support for investigations, CAPA, and regulatory submissions.

What you’ll bring

You’ll thrive in a collaborative, curious, and improvement‑driven team that values innovation and accountability.

About us

Douglas is one of New Zealand’s greatest pharmaceutical success stories with an ever‑expanding footprint into global markets. We’re working to develop, trial, manufacture, test, pack and distribute the very best medicines, nutraceuticals and products to over 40 countries.

At Douglas there are 700 of us – including top scientists, researchers, manufacturers, regulators and engineers, and together we’re on a mission to make high‑quality, effective, accessible and sustainable products for people who need it. We’re here to do our life’s best work.

We’re helping people with conditions like depression, schizophrenia, breast cancer, heart failure, dermatology conditions, as well as people who need antibiotics and medicines to support their immune system.

Come join us on this mission to improve lives!

Next steps

If you’re invited to complete a video interview as the next stage of your application, we’d love you to embrace it. Video interviews allow more people the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities to the hiring manager in a new and innovative way, giving you a better chance of securing your ideal role. Relax, be yourself and don’t worry, we all feel a bit awkward in front of the camera.

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