Senior Manufacturing Supervisor CoE – Equipment Engineering DSP (Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing)

Location: Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands. Full-time, one-year contract with the intention to extend.

Company

Johnson & Johnson MedTech develops healthcare and medical technology solutions across Innovative Medicine and MedTech.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and develop the Downstream Processing Equipment Engineering team.
• Own the technical performance, safety, compliance, reliability, availability, and lifecycle management of manufacturing equipment.
• Direct operational support, technical investigations, structured root-cause analysis, equipment improvements, and engineering projects.
• Partner with Manufacturing, Maintenance, Process Engineering, Quality, Automation, Reliability, and Validation functions to resolve equipment issues and improve maintainability.
• Support equipment qualification, requalification, validated-state activities, GMP change control, CAPEX initiatives, and implementation handover.
• Develop equipment improvement roadmaps, business cases, engineering standards, knowledge-transfer practices, and technical capability within the team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Engineering, or a comparable technical discipline.
• At least 9 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor’s degree or 7 years with a Master’s degree.
• Experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, food, chemical, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment.
• Experience with manufacturing or process equipment, technical problem solving, people leadership, project leadership, or multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Understanding of GMP and equipment qualification and lifecycle principles.
• English proficiency at B2 level or above, with strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with biopharmaceutical downstream processing equipment, including chromatography, filtration or TFF systems, process vessels, centrifugation, or buffer preparation.
• Experience with equipment lifecycle management, reliability engineering, asset management, qualification and validation, or GMP change control.
• Experience with CAPEX projects, automation and manufacturing systems, Lean, Six Sigma, or Operational Excellence.
• Formal people-leadership experience and experience with technical investigations and structured root-cause problem solving.

Culture & Benefits

• Lead a highly skilled Equipment Engineering team within a complex biologics manufacturing operation.
• Influence equipment strategy, reliability improvements, lifecycle management, and future investments.
• Collaborate with experts across Manufacturing, Quality, Maintenance, Automation, Validation, and Engineering.
• Build experience across operations, engineering leadership, reliability, CAPEX, and asset lifecycle management.
• Work with advanced biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies and connect engineering decisions to shop-floor needs.