General information
Publication date
/10/2025
Category
OPERATIONS - ENGINEERING/PRODUCTION
Job title
Sustainability Engineer - Life sciences - M/V/X
Contract
Permanent contract
Job description
Departmental Marketing Statement
The service of Project Engineer Sustainability (PE sustainability) is situated in the department Global
Technology, Engineering & Launch (GTEL) Clinical manufacturing. Clinical manufacturing is key in bringing new
molecules from lab development work until launch for a broad portfolio of innovative vaccines, biologicals and
small molecules. Our department forms the bridge between R&D development activities and the manufacturing
process in commercial plants. To further improve the sustainability of our manufacturing processes and future
products, we are looking for a PE sustainability.
"The project engineer sustainability will support our next steps on sustainability"
We strongly believe in teamwork Hence, the tasks listed below are typical for the PE sustainability, but the result
of the team is paramount.
Tasks
The PE will be involved in various sustainability related efforts for the Puurs Clinical manufacturing.
Key responsibilities are:
• Identify, evaluate & follow-up different (potential) sustainability projects for Puurs Clinical manufacturing
• Collaborate and communicate with different departments within Pfizer (Puurs & global) and external parties
to collect necessary information & data on sustainability projects.
• Contribute to tools that enable the assessment of the environmental impact of different options when
making business decisions
• Ensure that new facilities and new processes within the Clinical Manufacturing are designed or operated
to ensure sustainable manufacturing.
Business Industry
Life sciences
Profile
Skillset/attitude
• Hands-on (engineering) mindset with a strong personal affinity for sustainability
• Able to work independently and in multidisciplinary teams & to interact with different stakeholders
• Flexible, can thrive in a dynamic environment
• Can think both high level/strategic and at the same time be hands-on when doing data collection or
preparing & executing tests/analyses
• High sense of personal ownership towards sustainability
• Willing to understand the end-to-end pharmaceutical (aseptic) manufacturing processes
Qualifications
• Master with relevant scientific discipline or equivalent, preferably with prior manufacturing related
experience
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Analytical
• Strong data management skills
• Basic programming skills (Excel VBA/…)
• Fluent written and oral knowledge of English
Job location
Europe, Belgium
Location
Puurs
Candidate criteria
Level of experience
1 to 3 years