Advanced Process Design Engineer

NNE•Clayton, NC

21h

About The Position

Are you passionate about designing the process and mechanical systems that enable pharmaceutical manufacturing? Do you enjoy solving technical challenges in GMP regulated environments and shaping the design of facilities that produce lifechanging medicines? If so, you’ll fit right in at NNE. Primary Duties and Responsibilities: We are looking for an Advanced Process Design Engineer with strong experience in pharma or biotech facility design. This role focuses on process and mechanical design engineering across concept, basic, and detailed design phases, ensuring systems meet stringent GMP, regulatory, and industry standards. You will develop design deliverables, perform calculations, support cross discipline design coordination, and contribute to technical excellence within our US engineering team. discipline design coordination and contribute to technical excellence within our US engineering team. on experience with pharma manufacturing processes, mechanical systems, utilities, and equipment. This is a great role for engineers who enjoy the technical depth of design work and have hands on experience with pharma manufacturing processes, mechanical systems, utilities, and equipment.

Requirements

B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Mechanical, Chemical/Process Engineering, or related field.
Strong experience in process mechanical design for pharmaceutical or biotech facilities.
Proficiency with P&IDs, equipment design, utility system design, and engineering calculations used in GMP environments.
Familiarity with pharma industry standards such as ASME, ASME BPE, API, ANSI, and NFPA.
Ability to deliver design work independently and manage small technical priorities.
Effective collaboration skills within multi-disciplinary pharma project teams.
Please note: NNE is not able to sponsor employment visas for this position. Candidates must have authorization to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

Experience with clean utilities (WFI, PW, clean steam) and process utilities in pharmaceutical operations.
Experience designing systems for biologics, sterile manufacturing, API/chemical processing, or oral solid dosage.
Experience with GMP, validation concepts, and regulated facility design.
Experience improving design templates, specifications, or design tools tailored for pharma.

Responsibilities

Produce process and mechanical design deliverables for pharma/biotech facilities, including but not limited to PFDs, P&IDs, utility flow diagrams, equipment specifications, and mechanical layouts.
Perform design calculations such as pump sizing, line sizing, pressure drop, heat transfer, flow rates, and utility loads for cGMP systems.
Support the design and specification process for equipment (vessels, bioreactors, mixing tanks, heat exchangers, CIP/SIP systems) used in pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Support the development of designs for clean utilities (WFI, PW, clean steam, clean compressed air) and support systems used in GMP environments.
Ensure designs meet GMP requirements, pharma industry codes/standards, and regulatory expectations (ASME, ASME BPE, ANSI, API, NFPA).
Support design reviews and participate in HAZOPs and other pharma specific safety and compliance assessments-specific safety and compliance assessments.
Support design activities with automation, electrical, CQV, controls, and other engineering disciplines essential to pharma facility execution.
Review vendor documentation—including FAT/SAT packages—for equipment used in pharmaceutical production.
Provide discipline oversight for small design packages and support design quality reviews.
Contribute technical input for pharma project proposals, scopes of work, basis of design documents, and estimates.
Help strengthen client relationships within the pharmaceutical and biotech industry.
Help develop and refine pharma-focused design templates, design standards, utility guidelines, and best practices.
Participate in technical knowledge sharing communities, especially around pharma process and mechanical design, sharing communities.