Senior Process Development Engineer

Job overview

The Senior Process Development Engineer works onsite in Painesville, OH. Compensation is not specified. The role supports small-molecule active pharmaceutical ingredient production through process development and scale-up. The engineer translates laboratory-scale chemical processes into safe, executable manufacturing instructions and guides initial production. Collaboration with Chemistry, Quality, and Operations helps resolve scale-up challenges, maintain technical compliance, and support client project progress.

What you'll do

• Translate new chemical processes into batch records and guide operators through initial production
• scale processes from laboratory to kilo lab or plant
• support HPAPI production
• oversee processing and review batch records
• author and review process documentation
• conduct process safety meetings and prepare safety review packages
• troubleshoot process deviations
• provide client status updates
• support pilot plant equipment and infrastructure.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior process development engineer

painesville oh

onsite

process scale-up

chemical engineering

small-molecule api

kilo lab

hpapi

batch records

process safety

olon usa

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Requires a B.S. or M.S. in Chemical Engineering or Chemistry and ten or more years of pharmaceutical or specialty chemical scale-up experience.

About the employer

Olon USA LLC is hiring for this role. Industry: All Other Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing. Sector: 32.