Validation Engineer – CSV / Automation

About the role

An automation and engineering firm in the Brainport region delivers MES and DCS projects to pharma sites across the Benelux and needs a CSV engineer on secondment for twelve months. You validate GAMP 5 category 4 and 5 systems for two client projects, an MES rollout at a sterile site and a DeltaV upgrade at an API plant.

Your responsibilities

• Author validation plans, risk assessments and test protocols per GAMP 5 (2nd ed.)
• Execute and review OQ/PQ for MES and DCS systems
• Perform Annex 11 / data integrity assessments and audit trail reviews
• Manage supplier test evidence and deviations
• Report to client validation leads and QA

What you bring

Must-haves

• 3+ years CSV in GMP environments
• GAMP 5 category 4/5 systems: MES, DCS, LIMS or similar
• Annex 11 and 21 CFR Part 11 in practice
• Willing to travel within the Benelux (1–2 days per week)

Nice-to-haves

• DeltaV, PCS7 or Werum PAS-X experience
• Critical thinking / CSA approach
• Dutch conversational

What's offered

• €70,000–82,000 gross per year on a Pharma Recruit secondment contract
• Company car or mobility budget, laptop, pension
• Hybrid: client sites 2–3 days, remote otherwise
• Conversion to the client's payroll possible after 12 months

About the company

A 150-person automation and engineering firm with long-term frameworks at pharma and biotech sites in the Netherlands and Belgium.