Senior Engineer (34928)
TR/080433
Posted: 05/01/2026
- €34.26 - €36.06 per hour
- Netherlands, Provincie Noord-Brabant, Breda
- Contract
Orion Group Life Sciences are looking for a Senior Engineer (Senior Process Improvement Engineer) on behalf of our Multinational Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology client located in Breda. Initial 12-month contract, with highly possibility of extension. This is a hybrid role, where you have to be at least 3 days onsite.
What will you do?
The Operations Excellence team is responsible for the overall process performance of their labeling & packaging lines in Breda. The team monitors the line output and investigates deviating events or trends. As Process Improvement Engineer you will identify improvement opportunities within their shopfloor and supporting processes. In collaboration with other departments, you will lead or contribute to business cases for process optimization and new production lines. Furthermore, you will investigate different scenarios for new product introductions, increasing production volumes and other mid-long term strategic initiatives.
With your strong analytical skills, you will optimize data collection, monitoring, analysis and visualization to assess current performance identify trends and improvement actions. With your broad technical and process knowledge you will support key-decision making for their long-term initiatives and goals to ensure the supply of their medicines to their patients!
Main Responsibilities of the role
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Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
What will you do?
The Operations Excellence team is responsible for the overall process performance of their labeling & packaging lines in Breda. The team monitors the line output and investigates deviating events or trends. As Process Improvement Engineer you will identify improvement opportunities within their shopfloor and supporting processes. In collaboration with other departments, you will lead or contribute to business cases for process optimization and new production lines. Furthermore, you will investigate different scenarios for new product introductions, increasing production volumes and other mid-long term strategic initiatives.
With your strong analytical skills, you will optimize data collection, monitoring, analysis and visualization to assess current performance identify trends and improvement actions. With your broad technical and process knowledge you will support key-decision making for their long-term initiatives and goals to ensure the supply of their medicines to their patients!
Main Responsibilities of the role
- Apply robust analytical skills to evaluate and interpret data using multiple sources of information (qualitative, quantitative, and trend data).
- Monitor process performance and identify trends and improvement opportunities.
- Keep processes in line with ever changing requirements (quality, safety, technical or technology) by assessing impact and proposing solutions.
- Interpret stakeholders needs to identify improvement opportunities and use LEAN / Six Sigma to drive them.
- Lead implementation of selected improvement projects and initiatives.
- Utilize advanced data analysis combined with subject matter expertise in operations to assist and guide decision making by senior management on longer term initiatives and projects (e.g. new capabilities or capacity improvements).
- Provide training and guidance to change leaders on the shopfloor and supporting departments.
- Bachelor or Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering or equivalent due to experience.
- Proven experience in the field of Industrial Engineering, Performance Improvement and / or Operational Excellence in an Operations / Manufacturing environment.
- Ability to work in a highly regulated business environment (GMP, GDP).
- Experience in optimizing internal value streams and managing projects.
- Demonstrated analytical skills and application of problem-solving (such as Six Sigma or Root Cause Analyses).
- Digital savvy and expert skills in using multiple analytical tools.
- Fluency in English both in oral and written communication.
#opportunity #multinational #pharmaceutical #biotechnology #senior #engineer #operationalexcellence #labellinglines #packaginglines #deviatingevents #processimprovement #processoptimization #industrialengineering #GMP #GDP #leansixsigma #rootcauseanalyzing
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
Tim Browaeys
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