Novartis
Validation Lead
$126K–$234K
Morrisville (North Carolina) · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026
- Experience
- 8 years in the stated pharmaceutical fields and setting; 5 years executing process validation, including leading and managing projects.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Pharmacy, Chemical Engineering, Pharmaceutical Technology, or a related scientific discipline.
About the job
Leads the Morrisville site’s pharmaceutical validation strategy and programs to ensure manufacturing quality, compliance, and readiness for launches, transfers, and inspections.
What you'll do
- Lead validation across process, cleaning, packaging, and ongoing verification; own the Validation Master Plan and performance metrics.
- Provide technical leadership for risk assessments, investigations, and complex validation challenges, and define interfaces with related qualification and validation work.
- Support product launches and technical transfers, and represent the site in audits, inspections, and validation governance.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Pharmacy, Chemical Engineering, Pharmaceutical Technology, or a related scientific discipline.
- 8 years of experience in manufacturing, manufacturing science and technology, technical development, or quality in oral solid dosage pharmaceutical manufacturing.
- 5 years of experience executing process validation, including leading and managing validation projects.
- Expertise in process validation, cleaning validation, and ongoing process verification; knowledge of quality systems, applied statistics, and global regulatory requirements.
Nice to have
- PhD in Chemistry, Pharmacy, Chemical Engineering, or Pharmaceutical Technology; or equivalent.
Pay
$126,000 and $234,000 per year (base salary); $126,000.00 - $234,000.00 (base salary)
Tools
Validation Master Plan, applied statistics
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