Junior Engineering Manager

Job Title

Group Lead Automation & Process Engineer (m/f/d) - Technical Unit

Job Level

Management

Employment Type

Permanent position

Company Overview

Octapharma is one of the largest human protein manufacturers in the world, developing and producing medicines sourced from human plasma and human cell lines. We are a privately-owned company, where the warmth of family meets the scale of a global organisation.

Role Overview

As a Group Lead Automation & Process Engineering, you will provide technical leadership in the development and industrialisation of Octapharma's next-generation greenfield production facilities.

You will steer automation and process engineering disciplines across major international investment projects, ensuring that new manufacturing sites are designed, built and commissioned to deliver compliant, scalable and sustainable routine production from day one.

By establishing global standards and forward‑looking technical solutions, you will shape the foundation of our future manufacturing network.

Responsibilities

• Define and align the engineering strategy with corporate functions and HcEng to ensure capacity, efficiency, and operational readiness for a greenfield plant project
• Act as overall engineering lead for the development project; align site structures and staffing, ensure global capacity planning timelines, and drive technical standardization across production lines to enable cross‑site learning and training
• identify best practices with HcEng and sites, establish standard requirements for the project, and develop a roadmap for rollout
• Ensure adherence to all relevant safety and quality regulations and standards
• Provide technical leadership for development and production teams at the new site, and mentor and support junior engineers
• Proven leadership experience in cross‑functional environments, including responsibility for engineering activities within large‑scale investment projects
• High level of ownership, accountability and solution orientation, paired with strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• The Group Technical Organization consists of Group Engineering, Automation, and Maintenance. You will work in a multinational organization supporting all production sites from a technical perspective.
• The Engineering department mainly works on project development in the early phases of strategic projects.

Skills Development

Skills development - We offer various internal and external employee and leadership trainings, trainee programs and digital solutions

About Octapharma

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Octapharma is one of the largest human protein manufacturers in the world, developing and producing human proteins from human plasma and human cell lines. With seven R&D sites and five state‑of‑the‑art manufacturing facilities in Austria, France, Germany, and Sweden, Octapharma also operates over 195 plasma donation centres across Europe and the US.