Senior Technologist
Location: Swindon, UK
Position summary; Monday – Friday 37.5 per week.
We are seeking a highly skilled Process Development Engineer / Senior Technologist to lead the optimisation of the Zydis Ultra manufacturing process and drive innovation in scale-up and commercialisation. This role combines deep technical expertise with strong communication and negotiation skills, ensuring that process improvements meet GMP standards, business objectives, and customer expectations.
The Role:
- Process Optimisation: Critically review and refine the Zydis Ultra mixing and dispensing processes, conducting trials and implementing improvements to achieve project and business goals.
- Technical Leadership: Apply engineering and scientific principles across mixing technologies, pumping/metering systems, and suspension handling to recommend and install optimal equipment solutions.
- Health & Safety: Ensure all activities comply with H&S requirements, conducting risk assessments and audits, and embedding safe practices in new product handling.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Operations, Engineering, Quality, OPEX, and external stakeholders to establish project governance and deliver successful outcomes.
- Business & Negotiation:
- Act as a technical contact for suppliers and customers, providing updates and leading discussions on process and equipment solutions.
- Negotiate complex technical and operational issues with professionalism, ensuring alignment between customer needs and business objectives.
- Contribute to proposal preparation, cost modelling, and strategy discussions to enhance efficiency and value creation.
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensure all processes, equipment, and documentation meet GMP, GLP, and regulatory standards, supporting audits and submissions.
- Innovation & IP: Identify opportunities to enhance product capabilities, intellectual property, and efficiency through new technologies and industry trends.
The Candidate:
- BSc/MSc/BEng/MEng in Chemistry, Pharmacy, Engineering, or related discipline.
- Experience in pharmaceutical or related industries, with expertise in suspension mixing and low-volume pumping/metering (<1g).
- Strong background in extrusion, mixing, suspensions, fluid dynamics, and metering technologies.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
- Organised, results-oriented, and strategic thinker with familiarity in Lean Six Sigma principles.
Why you should join Catalent:
- Competitive Salary – Reflecting your experience and skills.
- Working Hours - Monday to Friday 37.5 hours per week
- Bonus & Benefits – Includes a site performance bonus, a pension scheme matching up to 8% and life assurance. Enjoy a generous holiday entitlement that increases with tenure, with the option to purchase additional leave. Plus, gain access to Reward Gateway, offering discounts at many national retailers.
- Career Development – Access high-quality training, mentoring, and cross-functional opportunities within Catalent’s global network. Benefit from a subscription to LinkedIn Learning, providing access to 10,000+ online courses.
- Health & Wellbeing – Includes an employee assistance programme, on-site canteen facilities, and an active safety and “Patient First” culture. Take advantage of a Cycle to Work Scheme and an Electric Vehicle car scheme.
- Excellent Location – Just a two-minute drive from J16 of the M4, with free on-site parking.
Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career! Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference.
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