For our client, an international pharma company in Visp, we are looking for a Senior Bioprocess Engineer with significant work experience in Microbial, BioConjugates or Mammalian and a passion to engage in bringing improvement initiatives to life including engaging and driving operational readiness of roll-outs.

General Information:

Start date: ASAP
End date: until 03/08/2026
Contract: temporary via Randstad
Extension: to be discussed
Workplace: Visp
Workload: 100%
Home office: not possible

Responsibilities:

Manage operational activities in Upstream and Downstream or BioConjugates manufacturing, e.g. tech transfer support, material planning, document and batch record preparation, training and troubleshooting, deviation handling
Act as a functional lead for an interdisciplinary team of production personnel, supervisors and specialists and be accountable for the successful roll-out of new initiatives, i.e. performance and results of assigned projects
Establish training documentation for manufacturing personnel, plant logistics and (as needed) other manufacturing related areas
Guide and support activities for clinical and/or commercial manufacturing in one or more defined DSP areas, e.g. capture, intermediate purification, polishing or drug substance filling
Ensure implementation of procedures which enable efficient operation of single-use and/or stainless steel equipment for the purification of therapeutic proteins from either microbial or mammalian expression systems (Bioprocess Engineer DSP) or for the manufacturing of therapeutic BioConjugates like Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADCs) (Bioprocess Engineer BioConjugates)

Your Profile:

As your key entry role is focusing on the role out of new SAP functionality, a strong expertise in Change Management documentation as well as thorough updates of manufacturing documentation (e.g. SOPs, batch records) is key.

Bachelor, Master’s Degree or PhD in Biotechnology, Bio-chemical Engineering, Biochemistry or related Life Science subject
Significant work experience in Biologics Production: Downstream Processing or BioConjugates Manufacturing in the biotech/biopharma industry e.g. chromatography, ultra-/diafiltration and dead-end filtration
Very good GMP understanding
Strong experience in SAP, aspects of material management (BOM)
Profound knowledge of logistics workstreams within production
Profound knowledge as End-User of MES
Excellent communication skills in English and German
Experience with creating and supporting the creation of training documentation
Project management skills - you can support the roll-out of all expected initiatives
Strong team orientation: Teamwork and the ability to efficiently collaborate with all stakeholders across multiple departments
Structured, well-organized working attitude and solution-oriented working style
Open-minded for new ideas and suggestions

senior bioprocess engineer.