📜 Context
As part of the reinforcement of production activities within a leading industrial player in the life sciences sector, we are looking for a Production Engineer to support and optimize manufacturing operations in a highly regulated environment.
You will play a key role in ensuring production continuity, process robustness, and compliance with GMP standards, while contributing to continuous improvement initiatives across sterile production processes (aseptic and terminal sterilization).
You will work closely with cross-functional teams including Production, Quality Assurance, Maintenance, Supply Chain, and Finance.
📌 Your Role
As a Production Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring that manufacturing processes consistently deliver compliant, efficient, and safe outputs.
You will act as a key interface between operational teams and support functions, contributing both to daily production activities and to strategic improvement projects, with a strong focus on operational excellence and risk mitigation.
🎯 Main Responsibilities
🔹 Production & Operations Support
Support the Production Manager in daily operations to ensure business continuity and GMP compliance
Monitor and mitigate technical and operational risks
Coordinate production planning execution and shopfloor activities
Supervise production setup and resource allocation when required
🔹 Continuous Improvement & Performance
Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance safety, quality, and productivity
Identify and implement best practices and optimized working methods
Improve production yield and reduce operational costs (Opex)
Act as the focal point for shopfloor improvement processes
🔹 Quality & Compliance
Manage production-related quality events (deviations, CAPA, change controls, claims)
Lead root cause analysis and implement corrective and preventive actions
Ensure compliance with GMP standards and regulatory requirements
Prepare and review production documentation (batch records, SOPs)
🔹 Cross-functional Collaboration
Work closely with QA on validation, qualification, and metrology activities
Collaborate with Maintenance to improve equipment reliability and availability
Interface with Supply Chain for stock management and production optimization
Support Finance on cost structure and manufacturing performance topics
🔹 Projects & Industrialization
Contribute to CAPEX projects related to production processes and equipment
Translate operational excellence strategies into actionable initiatives
🔹 Training & Team Support
Develop and implement training plans for production teams
Ensure skill development and polyvalence within the production crew
💼 Your Profile
Master’s degree or Engineering degree in Process Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or related field
Minimum 5 years of experience in sterile production environments (aseptic and/or terminal sterilization)
Strong knowledge of GMP regulations (knowledge of Annex 1 and contamination control is a plus)
Experience with Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement methodologies
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Structured, organized, and detail-oriented mindset
Ability to work in cross-functional and regulated environments
🌍 Languages
🏆 Position Details
📍 Location: Yverdon / Neuchâtel
🕒 Workload: 100%
📅 Start date: ASAP
Hybrid work possible depending on client environment
🙌 Why join ENOVA?
Work on impactful projects in highly regulated and innovative environments
Be part of a company that values people, expertise, and agility
Benefit from close management and personalized support
Contribute to operational excellence in cutting-edge industrial sectors
ENOVA is a young IT consulting company founded in 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland, distinguished by its human, agile and responsive approach, embodying a constant quest for excellence.
Our commitment to excellence manifests itself through a results-oriented approach, characterized by agility, responsiveness, expertise, and innovation. We value communication, well-being at work, professionalism and equality, recognizing the uniqueness of each employee.
ENOVA is a consulting firm specializing in innovation, strategy and governance of information systems. Our experts and engineers are also involved in operational activities such as infrastructure, application development and solutions integration.
Our ENOVA Data entity capitalizes on our Cloud and DevOps expertise to go even further in leveraging our partners' data through skills in data engineering, data analysis and generative AI.
With historical entities in Geneva and Zurich, as well as our new branches in Luxembourg, Paris, Lyon and Sophia Antipolis, ENOVA supports its customers with holistic offers, from Time and Material to Managed Service and Center of Expertise. This diversified presence strengthens our ability to meet our customers' specific needs.
