Senior Process Development Engineer

g2 Recruitment; Alkmaar; Hybrid; EUR 61,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Travel allowance

Pension

27 days annual leave

12 ADV days

Job summary

g2 Recruitment seeks a Senior Process Development Engineer for a hybrid role in the Alkmaar area. You will drive scale-up production from R&D to validation, ensuring GMP compliance and leading validations.

The role requires a background in chemistry/biotech/pharma, strong documentation skills, and the ability to work independently. Fluent English is essential; Dutch is a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in chemistry, biotech, pharmaceuticals, or similar.
• Background in process development, continuous improvement and scale up production/validation.
• Experience with GMP, CAPAs, and process documentation.

Responsibilities

• Scale up production processes from R&D to validation.
• Ensure GMP compliance across the project.
• Create and update process descriptions and diagrams.
• Lead validations and manage non-conformities and CAPAs.
• Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams to deliver quality processes.

Skills

Process development

Scale-up production

GMP & CAPAs

Independent work

Fluent English

Education

Bachelor’s degree in chemistry/biotech/pharma

Job description

Senior Process Development Engineer · Hybrid

g2 Recruitment are partnering with a market leader based close to Alkmaar, North Holland, who are looking for a Senior Process Development Engineer to join their team on a permanent basis.

The client specialise in various sectors including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and highly regulated process industries on full manufacturing processes, from research and NPI through to product manufacturing and validation phases.

You will be working on scaleup for production processes from R&D to validation phases, ensuring GMP compliance, working on process descriptions and diagrams, leading validations and supporting with non-conformities and CAPAs.

Permanent Opportunity – Senior Process Development Engineer - Alkmaar Area

Start date: September, October, November 2026

Contract type: Permanent

Salary: €5,500 - €7,200 per month + 8%

Package: Bonus, travel allowance, pension, 27 days annual leave + 12 ADV days/option to cash in for extra bonus

Essential Skills

• Bachelor's degree in chemistry, biotech, pharmaceuticals, or similar
• Background in process development, continuous improvement and scale up production/validation
• Experience working on process documentation, GMP, CAPAs, etc.
• Working history in scientific fields such as chemistry, pharma, biopharma, radiopharma, etc.
• Ability to work independently, coordinating multiple processes simultaneously
• Fluent English essential, Dutch beneficial

This team is growing very quickly, so there is good development and progression opportunity to climb the company ladder.

g2 Recruitment are committed to equality of opportunity for all applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships or any other characteristic protected by law.