Sr. Validation Engineer (Cleaning Validation)
$60 - $75 per hourSterling Engineering Inc.
Job Description
Job Description
Position: Cleaning Validation SME
Location : Waukegan, IL 60087
Hire Type : Contract
Compensation : $60.00 - $75.00 per hour
Benefits : As a contract employee of Sterling, you are eligible to receive a Full Employee Benefits Package that includes paid time off, paid holidays, 3 medical plans to choose from, dental & vision plans, 401(k), and an Employee Stock Ownership (ESOP) plan.
I am looking for someone with extensive hands-on pharmaceutical cleaning-validation experience who has served as an SME or technical lead.
Experience with MACO, HBEL/PDE, worst-case assessments, swab/rinse sampling, recovery studies, and routine monitoring is highly desirable.
Job Duties:
- Execute Cleaning Validation Quality Plan deliverables
- Provide technical leadership and guide site resources
- Review protocols, reports, data, and quality records
- Assess deviations, trends, failures, and compliance gaps
- Support routine monitoring and lifecycle management
- Troubleshoot complex cleaning-validation issues
- Partner with Quality, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Validation
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience hands-on cleaning-validation experience within pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical manufacturing.
- Previous experience serving as a Cleaning Validation SME, technical lead, or senior validation engineer.
- Strong understanding of GMP cleaning-validation principles and lifecycle management.
- Experience executing, maintaining, or remediating Cleaning Validation Quality Plans.
- Experience with cleaning-validation protocols, reports, sampling plans, and routine monitoring.
- Ability to critically review data and identify scientific, technical, or compliance gaps.
- Experience investigating cleaning-validation deviations or failures and recommending appropriate actions.
- Strong technical writing, documentation-review, and data-analysis skills.
- Demonstrated ability to guide and mentor validation or quality resources.
- Strong cross-functional communication and stakeholder-management skills.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
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