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Title: Tangential Flow Filtration - TFF Design and Project Lead

Contract Role
Location: Boulder, CO - 5 days Onsite

Requires 10+ Years of Experience.

Daily duties of the contractor

• Support the end-to-end design and development of peptide manufacturing processes, ensuring alignment with cGMP requirements, regulatory expectations, and industry best practices.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with process development, MSAT, quality, validation, engineering, and project management teams to translate process requirements into scalable manufacturing solutions.
•  Lead and contribute to process design activities, including:

• Process flow diagrams (PFDs)
• Piping & instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs)
• Mass and energy balances
• Equipment sizing and selection

• Provide technical input during facility design and layout planning, ensuring efficient material/personnel flow, contamination control strategies, and compliance with GMP zoning and cleanroom classifications.
• Support technology transfer activities from R&D or pilot scale into commercial manufacturing, ensuring process robustness and reproducibility.
• Participate in risk assessments (e.g., FMEA, HAZOP) to identify and mitigate process and design risks.
• Develop and review user requirement specifications (URS), functional specifications (FS), and design qualification (DQ) documentation for process equipment and systems.
• Interface with equipment vendors and engineering firms, supporting design reviews, factory acceptance testing (FAT), and site acceptance testing (SAT).
• Assist in establishing process control strategies, including critical process parameters (CPPs), critical quality attributes (CQAs), and automation requirements.
• Support commissioning, qualification, and validation (CQV) activities, including:

• IQ/OQ/PQ protocol development and execution
• Process validation (PPQ) readiness
• Engineering batch support
• Author and review GMP documentation, including:

• Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
• Batch records
• Change controls
• Deviations and CAPAs

• Monitor and troubleshoot process performance during startup and initial manufacturing campaigns, driving continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory standards (FDA, EMA, ICH) and internal quality systems throughout design and implementation phases.
• Participate in project meetings and design reviews, providing updates on process engineering deliverables, timelines, and risks.
• Support implementation of digital systems and automation platforms (e.g., MES, SCADA, DCS) for peptide manufacturing processes.

Required Skills:

• 7-10 plus years of experience as a process design engineer in a pharmaceutical GMP environment
• Has process design engineering experience as a lead or individual team member
• Having worked  on peptide projects before
• Has been a member of design team for 2-3 Tangential Flow Filtration (TFF) process skids projects
• Ability to spec, size and design peptide process trains
• In particular – Purification and TFF - Tangential Flow Filtration

• Prior experience working with fabricator on skid build and deliver
• Supporting commissioning and qualification team in startup
• Prior experience supporting construction teams in installation
• Bachelor’s degree in either chemical engineering or mechanical engineering