Validation Technician

Msd; England; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading pharmaceutical manufacturing company is seeking a Validation Technician to manage validation activities across its Manufacturing Division. You will play a crucial role in ensuring compliance with Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) and support new projects. The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and experience in validation within the pharmaceutical industry. This fixed term role offers competitive salary and benefits including professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Healthcare

Flexible working

Training opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in validation, quality, production, or engineering within the pharmaceutical industry.
• Hands-on experience with validation and requalification activities across various systems.
• Solid understanding of cGMP and good documentation practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute validation plans for projects.
• Prepare, review, and approve validation protocols and related documents.
• Ensure adherence to quality standards and requalification plans.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Planning and prioritization

Collaborative team player

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant science or engineering discipline

Tools

Data loggers

DOP testing equipment

Anemometers

AVS equipment

Job description

Overview

Job Description About us Join a dynamic pharmaceutical manufacturing team committed to delivering safe, high-quality medicines. We combine scientific rigour with continuous improvement to maintain world-class manufacturing standards. If you enjoy hands-on validation work, problem-solving and influencing best practice across a production environment, this role is for you.

Role

As a Validation Technician you will manage, drive and support initial validation activities and periodic revalidation across our Manufacturing Division, ensuring ongoing compliance with current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP). You will be a key contributor to new projects, process changes and routine requalification activities, ensuring robust, documented evidence that our facilities, utilities, equipment and computerized systems perform reliably and safely. This is a fixed term role.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute validation plans for projects and changes to processes, equipment, utilities, computer systems and facilities.
• Prepare, review and approve validation protocols, qualification reports, plans, quality risk assessments and related documentation.
• Ensure adherence to the requalification plan and maintain compliance with cGMP and company quality standards.
• Raise, investigate and close deviations and CAPAs; support investigations into events as required.
• Conduct or support testing and validation activities for HVAC/HEPA systems, clean rooms, isolators, biological safety cabinets, autoclaves, aseptic simulations, sterile filtration, manufacturing equipment, controlled temperature units and laboratory methods.
• Perform or oversee airflow visualisation studies (AVS), environmental monitoring and other validation-specific tests.
• Use validation tools and instruments (data loggers, DOP testing equipment, AVS kit, anemometers, balometers) and interpret results.
• Manage and coordinate external contractors as required.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of cGMP, company quality manuals and relevant regulations and guidance.
• Identify opportunities for improvement and lead solutions through to implementation and closure.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant science or engineering discipline.
• Experience in validation, quality, production or engineering within the pharmaceutical industry.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with validation and requalification activities across a wide range of systems and equipment, including HVAC/HEPA, clean rooms, isolators and containment devices, AVS, autoclaves, sterile filtration, manufacturing processes, utilities (steam, compressed air, nitrogen, PW/WFI), CIP/cleaning processes, controlled temperature units and laboratory methods.
• Experience working with computerized systems and common validation software/spreadsheets.
• Practical experience using validation equipment (temperature/pressure data loggers, DOP testers, AVS equipment, anemometers, balometers).
• Experience managing external contractors is desirable.
• Solid understanding of cGMP and good documentation practices.

Skills and Attributes

• Strong attention to detail and the ability to review and correct technical documentation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; able to prepare clear, compliant reports and interact effectively with multidisciplinary teams.
• Collaborative team player with a proactive, professional attitude and high personal integrity.
• Strong decision-making and analytical skills; able to assess issues from multiple angles and deliver well-reasoned conclusions.
• Effective planning, prioritisation and time-management skills to meet deadlines and produce quality deliverables.
• Comfortable driving change through coaching, influencing and mentoring.
• A continuous-improvement mindset with the ability to identify and implement practical solutions.

Additional Information

Work on meaningful projects that directly impact product quality and patient safety. Supportive, inclusive team culture with opportunities for professional development. Competitive salary and benefits package including pension, healthcare, flexible working, training, etc. Modern facilities and opportunity to work with industry-standard validation equipment and techniques.

Notices: Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails. Employee Status: Temporary (Fixed Term).

Job Posting End Date: 10/11/2025. A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.