Validation Engineer

Agilent; Maryland; On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Agilent's Advanced Therapeutics Division in Colorado seeks a CQV specialist to support commissioning, qualification and validation activities in a fast‑paced API‑Biopharma setting. You will contribute to cleaning validation, method verification, and related documentation to ensure cGMP compliance.

Responsibilities include generating and reviewing validation plans, executing studies across equipment and facilities, and assisting with audits and regulatory readiness.

Qualifications

• Experience in CQV activities and related validation work.
• Strong knowledge of cGMP, FDA/ICH guidance.
• Excellent documentation, planning and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Generate and review validation plans, protocols and reports.
• Execute cleaning validation studies and verification activities.
• Coordinate with ENG, FAC, QA/QC and IT for validation deliverables.
• Maintain compliance with 21 CFR, ICH, and regulatory standards.
• Support audits, CAPA tracking, change controls and trend analysis.
• Prepare risk assessments, traceability matrices and summary reports.
• Assist with URS, IQ/OQ/PQ, SAT and commissioning documentation.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of the validation program.

Skills

Validation expertise

cGMP knowledge

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant science

Job description

Agilent's Advanced Therapeutics Division is a contract development and manufacturing organization providing products and services for our clients that provide medicines for many indications improving health for patients.

Join our team with this exciting opportunity to support commissioning Qualification and Validation (CQV) activities (excluding process validation) at our facilities in Colorado. Work in our dynamic, fast paced, API-Biopharma manufacturing environment with the ability to contribute to the growing industry of oligonucleotide (DNA-RNA) based therapeutics.

This position will be focused on the field of cleaning validation, specifically supporting laboratory studies including method verification, cleanability studies, and surface recovery to aid in MACO and ARL calculations. Additional responsibilities include support of all other areas of the engineering validation program as indicate below.

Responsibilities and essential functions may include but are not limited to:

• Generate and review validation study documentation including validation plans, change controls, protocols, requirements specifications, asset induction requests, commissioning documentation, final reports and addenda while ensuring compliance with cGMP requirements.
• Execute validation studies in support of engineering, manufacturing, process development, facilities, IT, quality control, and quality assurance.
• Manage or support the validation program. Suggests, develops and/or implements improvements to the program to ensure it maintains compliance with current regulatory and industry expectations.
• Support validation deliverables related to Equipment, Instruments, Facilities, Utilities, Cleaning, Computerized Systems and ongoing validations, as needed.
• Generate, revise and execute validation documentation for analytical instruments, process equipment and facility computer systems and software ensuring compliance with 21 CFR, ICH, Eudralex Volume 4 Annex 15, GAMP and other regulatory and industry standard requirements as deemed necessary.
• Support Engineering (ENG), Facilities (FAC), Manufacturing (MFG), Process Development (PD), Quality Control (QC), Quality Assurance (QA) and Information Technology (IT) with validation activities. This includes management and support of validation planning and scheduling for overall project timelines and site objectives.
• Generate and revise documentation including, but not limited to, plans, risk assessments, traceability matrices, policies, procedures, equipment characterization reports, summary reports, specification documents and vendor qualification documents for validation studies ensuring compliance with QA and cGMP systems.
• Responsible for generating, executing, reviewing and approving validation protocols for equipment, instruments, utilities, and control systems through commissioning, URS, Software Acceptance Testing (SAT), IQ, OQ, PQ and cleaning phases.
• Responsible ongoing validation efforts of systems including Controlled Temperature Units (CTUs), Autoclaves, Lyophilizers, QC Glasswashers, Periodic Review
• Generate data and reports for the periodic review and/or periodic monitoring programs.
• Participate in both factory and site acceptance testing for new manufacturing and engineering equipment.
• Support facility qualification of classified environments.
• Assist with spreadsheets validation activities.
• Support the generation and execution of cleaning validation support activities, such as: sprayball coverage testing, cycle development studies, equipment characterization reports, and equipment sampling SOPs.
• Manage, schedule, and/or support laboratory-based cleaning validation studies, including but not limited to method validations and surface recovery studies (i.e. worst-case soil studies).
• Support Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality Assurance (QA), and Quality Control (QC) to evaluate and resolve equipment cleaning issues and failures and to address any cleaning or cleaning validation related activities.
• Resolve CAPA's, nonconformances, protocol incidents, and change controls related to validation.
• May serve as a validation subject matter expert for client and regulatory audits.
• May be responsible for attending client meetings as an engineering representative for purposes of addressing validation topics.

Knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing processes, quality improvements, and efficiency as well as knowledge of governing FDA (e.g. 21 CFR 11, 210, 211 and ICH Q7) and international regulations pertaining to the production of APIs and drug products.

Experienced in working with validation programs, Nonconformance Investigations, Corrective Action/Preventive Action (CAPA) and Change Control.

Skill in managing various projects; must be able to use individual discretion in completing work assignments; ability to work effectively as a team while making independent decisions on various tasks.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to p