MSAT Digital Innovation Engineer

You will lead cross-functional project teams and act as Site MSAT Subject Matter Expert (SME) to evaluate, pilot, and deploy innovative technologies and digital solutions that improve shop floor execution and MSAT business processes. This includes dashboards, automated reporting and data-driven workflows, as well as executing pilot studies for new software and tools to assess value, usability and fit to GMP/MSAT processes. You will coordinate stakeholders across functions and represent the department in digital tool initiatives from evaluation through sustainment.

Cilag AG, part of Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, is hiring an Experienced Engineer, MSAT Bio DP Innovation (2 year fixed-term contract, 80-100%) to be located in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine Schaffhausen Site/Cilag AG is a Launch site for new products with focus on Parenteral Products (e.g. pre-filled syringes and vials). We belong to the Manufacturing Science & Technology (MSAT) organization for the MTO (Manufacturing and Technical Operations) Biotherapeutics Platform. We support the Parenteral small and large molecule Filling, visual inspection, device assembly and pack operations at J&J; Innovative Medicine Schaffhausen. We have recently established a new team focusing on the deployment of innovative digital tools and shop floor technologies.

• University degree in Engineering, Data Science, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Informatics or equivalent, PhD or at least two years of pharmaceutical experience; ideally hands-on with digital tools (dashboards/automated reporting), software pilots, and data-driven methods (statistics and/or advanced process control)

• Experience translating business needs into digital requirements (e.g., user stories), working with relevant manufacturing data sources (e.g. MES/LIMS/process historian systems) and building or managing BI/reporting solutions (e.g., Power BI, Python, Tableau, experience with platforms such as Databricks and Posit is a plus) in a regulated environment

• Proven project leadership experience in a GMP-regulated (life sciences) environment, with the ability to drive cross-functional delivery from requirements through implementation and sustainment. You work independently with strong ownership, structure and initiative, and you collaborate effectively to meet project timelines

• Your strength is decision making and problem-solving, combined with excellent communication skills to represent MSAT in cross-functional and cross-sites teams within the global matrix organization

• You are open to new ideas, and you drive innovation

• Proficiency in English is required, German is a plus