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Validation Engineer (GMP) | Up to €70,900 per year | Hoofddorp, Netherlands

Looking for a hands-on validation role in a GMP-regulated environment?

Join a leading pharmaceutical organization in Hoofddorp as a Validation Engineer and play a key role in ensuring equipment, systems, and facilities are fully qualified, compliant, and inspection-ready—supporting the reliable delivery of high-quality pharmaceutical products.

Offer

• Salary: Up to €70,900 per year (based on experience)
• Location: Hoofddorp, Netherlands
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Work Model: On-site
• Working Hours: 09:00–17:00 (flexibility required)
• Contract: Initial 12-month contract with possibility of extension or permanent employment
• Benefits: Competitive secondary benefits package
• Career Growth: Opportunities for professional development within a regulated pharmaceutical environment
• Environment: Collaborative, quality-driven team in a GMP-regulated setting

Your Role

In this role, you will be responsible for commissioning, qualification, and validation (CQV) activities across equipment, utilities, facilities, and computerized systems.

Working in a GMP-regulated pharmaceutical environment, you will ensure validation processes, documentation, and systems remain compliant, robust, and audit-ready—supporting operational excellence and patient safety.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform CQV activities, including commissioning, qualification, and temperature mapping
• Create, execute, and review CP / IQ / OQ / PQ protocols for equipment, utilities, facilities, and computerized systems
• Investigate deviations, exceptional conditions, and CAPAs, and implement corrective and preventive actions
• Develop and maintain Computerized System Validation (CSV) documentation, including risk assessments, validation plans, UATs, and final reports
• Review validation protocols, summary reports, testing records, and lifecycle SOPs
• Support calibration and certification of validation instruments
• Collaborate with Quality Engineering to define and maintain CQV and CSV strategies
• Provide validation guidance during project planning, design, and execution phases
• Manage contractors and support vendor protocol execution when required
• Act as a validation subject-matter expert during audits and inspections

Qualifications & Experience

• Atleast MBO level 4 with at least 6 years of relevant experience or
• HBO level with at least 4 years of relevant experience
• Proven experience working in a GMP-regulated pharmaceutical or life sciences environment
• Hands-on experience with validation (CQV and/or CSV)
• Strong documentation skills and attention to detail
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in cross-functional teams
• Flexible, proactive, and quality-focused mindset

Interested?

Apply now by clicking Easy Apply with your updated CV, or feel free to contact:

Audrey Poluakan, Recruitment Consultant at Gi Life Sciences Netherlands

M: 0658069570

E: audrey.poluakan@gigroup.com