Validation Engineer
Join our Engineering team as a Validation Engineer at our Haverhill manufacturing site to play a key role in planning, executing, and documenting validation activities.
Join our Engineering team as a Validation Engineer at our Haverhill manufacturing site to play a key role in planning, executing, and documenting validation activities to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal quality standards. This includes equipment qualification, process validation, cleaning validation, and computer system validation.
Your Responsibilities
You will:
- Define validation requirements for procurement enquiries.
- Perform risk assessments and gap analyses to identify validation needs at system and Component level (SIA/CIA).
- Develop and execute equipment purchase related validation documentation. (Pre delivery inspection, FAT, receipt verification and SAT protocols and reports)
- Develop and execute commissioning and validation protocols (OCD, IQ, OQ) for equipment, utilities, and processes in conjunction with the engineering team.
- Support CSV activities including Gamp lifecycle- based approach management
- Ensure validation activities comply with cGMP, FDA, EMA, and other regulatory guidelines.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Quality Assurance, Production, Engineering, and IT.
- Support audits and inspections by providing validation documentation and expertise.
- Maintain accurate and complete validation documentation and reports.
- Participate in continuous improvement initiatives related to validation and compliance.
Our Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Life Sciences, or a related field.
- Proven experience in validation within a pharmaceutical or biotech manufacturing environment.
- Strong knowledge of cGMP, FDA, EMA, and ICH guidelines.
- Experience with validation of manufacturing equipment, cleanrooms, utilities (e.g., HVAC, WFI), and computerized systems.
- Excellent documentation and technical writing skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to work independently and in a team-oriented environment.
- Excellent communication skills.
Your Benefits
- Attractive Salary
- Competitive benefits
- Training & Development
- Open and friendly working environment
Culture & Values
We bring our culture to life in the way we work every day. Our culture enables career development and talent management, we recognise that how we do things is as important as what we do, and our values set out how we achieve our goals and help us "do it right".
Diversity & Inclusion
We are committed to nurturing a culture of diversity and inclusion that contributes to improving innovation, performance, and engagement. We value transparency, mutual respect, and equal treatment of people. For this reason, we are firm in protecting our employees against any forms of discrimination.
We are Disability Confident - Committed which means we make reasonable adjustments to our process and offer interviews to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. If you would like any assistance or require the application to be completed in a different format, please call or contact our Haverhill site reception.
Environment, Social and Governance
We strongly believe that the success of our company lies in its capacity to adapt to tomorrow’s challenges. Our responsibility as a company is to provide sustainability and resilience to the pharmaceutical value chain.
EUROAPI UK Limited (now part of Particle Dynamics)
Website: https://particledynamics.com/
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- Department
- Engineering
- Locations
- Haverhill
- Employment type
- Full-time
Haverhill
We Offer
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Competitive Compensation Packages
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Competitive Benefits
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5 Weeks Leave + Bank Holidays with holiday flex, buy & sell up to 5 days per year
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We Care Employee Assistance Programme
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Occupational Health and Wellbeing Onsite - We will support and facilitate you to lead a happy, healthy working life. You can even try bee keeping, our helpful webinars, exercise classes and attend site events to help you to EatWell, BeWell, KeepWell and MoveWell.
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Great Location - Commuting to Haverhill is easy, we offer onsite parking and a location free from inner city traffic. We occupy an advantageous position on the borders of Cambridgeshire, Essex, and Suffolk, right at the heart of the East of England.
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Recognition - We encourage recognition and embed it into our culture
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Haverhill Employee Forum - each department has a representative that takes part in the employee forum to ensure there is a constant dialogue between the leadership team and employees.
Workplace & Culture
The EUROAPI Haverhill (UK) site has been established for 40 years and is located 15 miles east of Cambridge and 60 miles north of London, in a key science and innovation region. It employs over 250 people and has built a strong reputation in Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) Spray Drying and Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation (CDMO). Haverhill is proud to house the world’s largest, continuous production, pharmaceutical spray dryer and performs secondary packaging and release activities for oncology and rare disease medicines supporting global markets. The site is also developing a contract testing and release facility within its laboratories.
Find out more about our mission, vision and values here

By joining EUROAPI, you’ll have the chance to create your own opportunities and the freedom to make them happen. We offer the chance to work in different parts of the world and experience new cultures. Do you have the drive to make a difference and the desire to shape the future of our business? Come and join our team!
Culture & Values at Euroapi
Our values & behaviors are based on the following pillars:
- We are accountable for what we do, always acting with the company’s interest in mind
- We create value by putting our clients at the center of everything we do
- We empower our people for greater positive impact.
- We value and respect all our stakeholders
Environment, Social and Governance
We strongly believe that the success of our company lies in its capacity to adapt to tomorrow’s challenges. Our responsibility as a company is to provide sustainability and resilience to the pharmaceutical value chain.
Find out more about our Environmental, Social and Governance commitments and goals here
Diversity & Inclusion
EUROAPI is committed to nurturing a culture of diversity and inclusion that contributes to improving innovation, performance, and engagement.
We value transparency, mutual respect, and equal treatment of people. For this reason, we are firm in protecting our employees against any forms of discrimination.
We are Disability Confident - Committed which means we make reasonable adjustments to our process and offer interviews to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. If you would like any assistance or require the application to be completed in a different format, please call or contact our Haverhill site reception.
About Euroapi UK
EUROAPI is a new player in Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API), carve out from Sanofi with the purpose of becoming a worldwide champion in API commercial and Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) activities.
Taking action for health by enabling access to essential therapies inspires our 3,350 people every day. Headquartered in Paris, Euroapi include 6 European API production sites located in Brindisi (Italy), Frankfurt (Germany), Haverhill (UK), St Aubin les Elbeuf (France), Budapest (Hungary) and Vertolaye (France).
Our Sales and CDMO teams are present in 11 countries to cover our customers in 80 countries.
Our Vision:
Reinventing active ingredient solutions to sustainably meet customers and patients' needs around the world.
Our Mission:
We work passionately every day to develop, manufacture and supply active-ingredient solutions for our healthcare partners around the world.
We combine our scientific excellence with industrial expertise and a wide range of technologies to deliver solutions that meet the highest quality, social and environmental requirements - all while ensuring stakeholder satisfaction.
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