What you’ll get

• An agile career and dynamic working culture

• An inclusive and ethical workplace

• Compensation programs that recognize high performance

• A variety of benefits dependant on role and location

Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across five continents. While we work in science, there’s no magic formula to how we do it. Our greatest scientific solution is talented people working together, devising ideas that help businesses to help people. In exchange, we let our people own their careers. Their ideas, big and small, genuinely improve the world. And that’s the kind of work we want to be part of.

Lonza’s Capsules & Health Ingredients business is the trusted partner for innovative products, including capsules and health ingredients, customization services and end-to-end dosage form solutions for pharmaceutical and nutraceutical companies.

For our Site Colmar, France | Lonza we are looking for a driven and passionate Scale Up Engineer to join our dynamic team !

This role is based in Colmar. Relocation assistance is available for eligible candidates and their families, if needed.

What you’ll do:

Investigate innovative settings, defined by R&D, based on pilot scale trials linked to new products and/or equipment development:

• Apply understanding of manufacturing processes and engineering principles, to propose and run the required testing to meet the short-term project targets for new products scale up

• Support planning and execution of scale up trials

• Propose and adjust test set ups in order to manufacture new products in a pilot or industrial environment

• Recommend troubleshooting actions to improve safety, quality and productivity during the test phase in industrial environment

• Suggest new process parameters/equipment developments to progress against project targets using available data and gathered learning

Manage knowledge transfer

• Support defining training requirements and provision of training material including all EHS and Quality requirements for process engineers, maintenance mechanics and colleagues in utilities

• Assist the transfer and scale up of new processes and technologies to the manufacturing plants

Work practices

• Maintain accurate and timely records to appropriate quality standard for self, prepares high quality technical analyses and reports for internal use.

• Contribute and show good example of continuous improvement initiatives

What we’re looking for:

• Master or PhD Engineering (Mechanical or Process preferred)

• Experience in the food industry is preferred

• Proficient in English and French

• Effective communicator and collaborator, ability to work with cross-functional teams and stakeholders

Every day, Lonza’s products and services have a positive impact on millions of people. For us, this is not only a great privilege, but also a great responsibility. How we achieve our business results is just as important as the achievements themselves. At Lonza, we respect and protect our people and our environment. Any success we achieve is no success at all if not achieved ethically.

People come to Lonza for the challenge and creativity of solving complex problems and developing new ideas in life sciences. In return, we offer the satisfaction that comes with improving lives all around the world. The satisfaction that comes with making a meaningful difference.

Lonza is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a qualified individual with disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.