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Associate Engineer - Engineering

About Site

Catalent's Madison, Wisconsin site is a stateoftheart biologics development and manufacturing facility supporting customers from research through early and midstage clinical production. Located at 726 Heartland Trail in Madison, the approximately 102,700squarefoot GMP facility specializes in mammalian cell line engineering, drug substance biomanufacturing, and biopharmaceutical development, utilizing flexible singleuse systems to enable rapid scaleup and customization. The site is home to Catalent's proprietary GPEx and GPEx Lightning technologies, which are used to generate highyielding mammalian cell lines for biologic therapies, and supports production scales ranging from 50 to 4,000 liters for clinical manufacturing. Following a $45 million expansion announced in 2025, the Madison site has significantly increased capacity, added new equipment, and created approximately 200 highly skilled biohealth jobs, further strengthening its role within Catalent's global biologics network and Wisconsin's growing life sciences ecosystem.

Position Summary

We have an opportunity for an Associate Engineer - Engineering to join our team. In this role, you will perform hands-on activities to install, onboard, and retire equipment. You will draft and edit Standard Operating Procedures, manage asset induction and retirement requests, and coordinate calibration and installation activities. You will also support validation documentation, change control actions, and training development for new technologies, while troubleshooting equipment issues and driving process improvements.

Shift: Monday -Friday, 8:00 AM-4:30 PM or 8:30 AM-5:00 PM with a 30-minute unpaid lunch
Location: Madison, WI
100% Onsite

The Role

• Perform hands-on equipment lifecycle activities including installation, onboarding, calibration, maintenance, and retirement

• Prepare and maintain Standard Operating Procedures and validation documentation

• Manage asset induction and retirement requests

• Coordinate calibration and setup activities with internal and external stakeholders

• Support change control implementation and contribute to training development for new technologies

• Troubleshoot equipment failures as needed

• Edit and modify Standard Operating Procedures for equipment operations, maintenance, and calibration

• Identify improvements and efficiencies in equipment lifecycle and reliability engineering

• Create and maintain all aspects of equipment design files

• Complete change control tasks related to equipment, including writing or updating procedures, identifying spare parts, and supporting new technology introduction

• Partner with equipment technicians to ensure proper implementation of preventative and repair maintenance activities

• Support process improvement implementation

• Perform other duties as assigned

The Candidate

Minimum Requirements

• Technical or Associate degree in technology, computer-based, or related field with 1-2 years of related work experience, or

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial, Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical, Computer Science, or Civil Engineering, or

• Equivalent combination of training, education, and experience

• Previous intern, co-op experience, or related work experience

• Requires frequent sitting, standing, walking, reading documents, computer use, reaching, communication, and writing, with occasional bending, kneeling, crouching, carrying, and lifting up to 50 pounds

Preferred Skills & Background

• Ability to independently interpret data, analyze trends, and provide insight into potential issues and solutions

• Ability to cross-train on techniques across multiple groups

• Ability to provide ideas, introduce new technology, and drive process improvements

• Work with other groups to develop, qualify, and transfer methods accordingly

Why You Should Join Catalent

• Defined career path and annual performance review and feedback process

• Diverse, inclusive culture

• Potential for career growth on an expanding team within an organization dedicated to preserving and bettering lives

• Competitive paid time off plus 8 paid holidays

• Community engagement and green initiatives

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits effective day one of employment

• Tuition Reimbursement

Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career! Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference.

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