Senior Process Engineer (12 months)

Welcome to Haleon. We’re a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we’ve grown, evolved and are now entering an exciting new chapter – one filled with bold ambitions and enormous opportunity.

Our trusted portfolio of brands – including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum® – lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.

Now it’s time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose – to deliver better everyday health with humanity – at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture.

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.

With category leading brands such as Sensodyne, Voltaren and Centrum, built on trusted science and human understanding, and combined with our passion, knowledge and expertise, we’re uniquely placed to do this and to grow a strong, successful business.

This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special.

Senior Process Engineer - 12 month fixed-term contract

Department: OH Platform (QSC)

Responsibilities:

• Senior Process Engineer within the OH Platform team (Haleon QSC)
• The team supports the development, optimization and technical life cycle management of leading global Power Brands in the Oral Health category
• This role will work within the Supply Chain OH Technical group and offers exposure to a variety of solid, semi-solid and liquid dose forms and the opportunity to work with a diverse multi-functional team from marketers and research scientists/engineers in new product development, to lead manufacturing sites. This enables a wide breadth of exposure and understanding of the commercial business to be acquired. The role might be required travel to European and Global sites
• The role will be responsible for leading complex process development, scale up and Technical Transfers supporting future manufacturing strategy and complex maintenance projects liaising with several functions in R&D and QSC. In addition, he/she will act as technical lead for complex RM changes within the derisking or CoGs reduction programmes as well as providing manufacturing site support for process improvement initiatives. He/She will establish him/her self the first point of contact and expert for OH technical for product robustness reviews to ensure right first time commercialisation at sites. He/She will support GPOs for continuous improvement projects, BARs and Risk assessments as required. The role will work closely with scientists, Global Product Owners and Technical Leads within the wider team and will contribute to the capability built of more junior engineers.

Job Purpose

• The role will work in the OH Technical team supporting Oral Health Power Brands
• The role will have the opportunity to lead technical change controls, tech transfers or process continuous improvements and engage in the Innovation and Maintenance strategies for OH brands, working with Quality, R&D and manufacturing site teams, throughout technical changes ensuring robust commercial scale manufacturing processes are maintained
• Specifically, the role might support de-risking, scale up, cost saving and strategic growth projects providing the technical expertise to carry out the activities within our network. The role will have active participation on global complex projects, through developing partnerships to work with Procurement, external vendors and CMOs, Haleon manufacturing sites, R&D development Engineers/scientists, Category and Quality

Other key responsibilities will include:

• Provide technical support to Haleon and CMO (Contact Manufacturing Organisations) supply sites to solve complex technical issues on sharing learning approach to site technical independency.
• Participate in governance forums such as Product Technical Review Teams (PTRT), Technical Review Board (TRB) as SME.
• Support the technical transfers associated to Raw material/product/process changes to other sites
• Lead or participate in Technical Risk Assessments (TRA, MRA) and Product Strategy Control (PCS) related to investigations or changes associated with current products.
• Manage, analyse and identify trends in data as part of Continued Process Verification (CPV) to drive continuous improvement.
• Support sites as necessary in Root Cause Analysis Investigation as part of site deviation management (manufacturing issues, product release performance and/or customer complaints).
• Work with Material Science team and procurement teams on the interpretation of data to assess new alternative raw material suppliers.
• Create and /or Review and approve documents including MMI (Master Manufacturing Instruction), Change Controls, Technical Rationales, Evaluation Protocols/Reports, Investigation Reports.
• Provide technical support and review of Regulatory Documents.
• Build capability in the team for Tech Transfers and oversee the E2E roll out plan

Basic Qualifications:

BSc/BEng or equivalent level of qualification within Pharmaceutical Science/Process or Manufacturing Engineering/Chemical Engineering or equivalent industrial experience. In addition:

• Knowledge/Experience with of semi-solids and liquid formulations.
• Knowledge of statistical principles used in process capability assessments
• Knowledge/experience of manufacturing processes and equipment for semi-solid and liquid formulations.
• Knowledge of scientific methods, DoE, QbD and DtV. 
• Technical writing skills for scientific documents are required as is demonstrated skill in problem solving and critical thinking.
• Knowledgeable in cGMP’s and general regulatory requirements.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred qualifications:

The following characteristics / experience would also be highly desirable:

• Experience in a Technical role at lead manufacturing site/global/regional team
• Experienced with the investigational techniques and tools for process investigations and Technical Risk Assessment.
• Knowledgeable in the principles of process validation.
• Knowledgeable in PLM
• Statistical knowledge and use of Statistica.
• Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point.
• Desirable proficiency using Veeva

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

• At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone.
• We’re striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives.
• We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

 

 

 

 Job Posting End Date

 

 

2025-11-20

 

 

 

Equal Opportunities

Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture, where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected – all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. It’s important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.

During the application process, we may ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. This information ensures we meet certain regulatory and reporting obligations and supports the development, refinement, and execution of our inclusion and belonging programmes that are open to all Haleon employees. 

The personal information you provide will be kept confidential, used only for legitimate business purposes, and will never be used in making any employment decisions, including hiring decisions.

 

 

 

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