Project Engineer
Novartis
Role description
Are you motivated by solving complex engineering challenges that directly impact patient safety and manufacturing excellence? As a Project Engineer at Novartis, you’ll play a key role in delivering critical site and global engineering projects, shaping reliable and safe equipment performance in a GMP environment. Working closely with cross functional and global teams, you’ll turn technical insights into practical solutions, drive continuous improvement across assets and help ensure our operations run flawlessly - every day, for every patient.
About the Role
Key Responsibilities
- Lead site engineering projects with cross-functional teams, ensuring safe, timely, and GMP-compliant delivery
- Drive complex root cause investigations
- Lead mean time between failures (MTBF)-driven projects
- Manage engineering change assessments and lead formal change control processes
- Plan, coordinate, and monitor engineering projects from initiation until finish
- Partner on capital investments, equipment validation, and process engineering
- Develop partnership with Global Novartis Engineering teams ensuring consistence and standardization of Engineering process
- Second line escalation in case of equipment failures
- Reducing safety risks through simplification and error proofing machines
- Driving continuous improvement from an asset perspective
Essential Requirements
- Degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or mechatronics, with a proven background in engineering environments
- At least three years of professional experience in pharmaceutical GMP manufacturing or comparable highly regulated industries
- Demonstrated experience leading engineering projects from planning through execution
- Ability to handle multiple projects at once with high degree of accuracy, initiative, and independence
- Strong structured problem-solving skills, with a hands-on and safety-driven approach
- Fluent English communication skills, both written and spoken
Desirable Requirements
- Dutch language knowledge
