Project Engineer

About the Role

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.

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