Engineer/SR Engineer, DS Plant Engineering

Short Description

As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development, and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies' success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in several ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, diversity and inclusion, mobility, networking, and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim's high regard for our employees.

The Senior Engineer, DS Plant Engineering is an expert in biotechnology manufacturing equipment and process, who will be responsible for leading process equipment readiness in BI Fremont's GMP manufacturing facility for the manufacture of biopharmaceutical drug substance.  This includes providing technical expertise for both the operational organization by leading troubleshooting and pro-actively formulating and driving continuous improvements of mechanical and automation functionalities of production equipment, as well contributing to the design elements of new process equipment and modifications to the manufacturing facility.

 

The Engineer, DS Plant Engineering is responsible for ensuring process equipment readiness in BI Fremont's GMP manufacturing facility for the manufacture of biopharmaceutical drug substance. This includes providing technical expertise for the operational organization by troubleshooting and driving continuous improvements of mechanical and automation functionalities of production equipment. The position designs and defines the pre-production readiness test program (wet run program, automation change verification and equipment modification) and technical training program in collaboration with the supporting functions. The position provides technical expertise for the design of new process equipment and modifications to the manufacturing facility. 

Duties & Responsibilities

Engineer, DS Plant Engineering

Identify and scope equipment modifications for continuous operations and reliability improvement.
Provides technical expertise for new equipment start up and qualification activities.
Activities include executing wet testing new or modified equipment in accordance to the URS and FS. Participate in the initial set up and operation of the equipment post GMP release.
Lead technical troubleshooting of mechanical and automation issues. Identify and implement solutions to increase reliability and availability of assigned process equipment.
Collaborate with manufacturing, quality and technical groups to seek innovative solutions to technical issues.
Defines equipment-related training programs.
Execute at scale process studies, i.e. mixing studies, media hold studies, to support process improvements and equipment validation.
Own and execute CAPAs for process equipment.
Provide technical input and review for CAPEX projects as user engineers.

Compensation Data

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Engineer, DS Plant Engineering

This position offers a base salary typically between (112,000) and (193,000).  There is opportunity to consider higher compensation above this range based on business need, candidate experience and or skills.  The position may be eligible for a role specific variable or performance based bonus and or other compensation elements.  For an overview of our benefits please click here. 

SR Engineer, DS Plant Engineering

This position offers a base salary typically between (140,000) and (222,000).  There is opportunity to consider higher compensation above this range based on business need, candidate experience and or skills.  The position may be eligible for a role specific variable or performance based bonus and or other compensation elements.  For an overview of our benefits please click here. 

Duties & Responsibilities

Senior Engineer, DS Plant Engineering

Leads and manages the identification and implementation of new complex manufacturing equipment or modifications to optimize e