Senior Cleaning Validation Engineer – Onsite GMP Expert

R Dpartners; Exeter; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

R&D Partners is seeking a Cleaning Validation Engineer to lead and execute validation activities for large automated washers at a pharmaceutical manufacturing site. The role is fully onsite with an immediate start and requires the right to work in the location.

You will independently assess validation status, identify gaps, update procedures/SOPs, and drive projects through to completion while collaborating with the site’s validation team and ensuring GMP documentation standards are met.

Qualifications

• Approximately 7–10 years of pharmaceutical validation experience.
• Strong specialist knowledge of cleaning validation and automated washers.
• Ability to work independently and own complex validation projects.
• Excellent project management and stakeholder coordination skills.
• Familiarity with GMP requirements and documentation standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead cleaning validation activities for large automated washers.
• Review existing validation approaches and identify gaps or challenges.
• Update and improve validation procedures, SOPs, and cleaning recipes/cycles.
• Independently drive validation activities through to completion.
• Collaborate with the site’s operational validation team.
• Coordinate activities and manage deliverables, requiring strong project management and stakeholder management skills.
• Ensure documentation and validation activities meet pharmaceutical GMP requirements.
• Support the handover of the validated system to the operational validation team.

Skills

Cleaning validation

Automated washers

Project management

Stakeholder coordination

GMP compliance

Job description

R&D Partners is seeking a Cleaning Validation Engineer to lead and execute validation activities for large automated washers at a pharmaceutical manufacturing site. The role is fully onsite with an immediate start and requires the right to work in the location.

You will independently assess validation status, identify gaps, update procedures/SOPs, and drive projects through to completion while collaborating with the site’s validation team and ensuring GMP documentation standards are met.