Full-Time

Senior Validation Engineer

Posted on 7/2/2025

CAI

CAI

501-1,000 employees

Operational readiness consulting for pharma

No salary listed

Italy

Hybrid

Willing to travel domestically and internationally; Rome-based hybrid role.

Category
QA & Testing (1)
Requirements
  • Strong cGMP and regulatory understanding
  • Experience in Process Validation, cleaning validation, equipment qualification, and filter validation
  • Experience in generation of Commissioning and Qualification procedures for client projects
  • Support CQV review/qualification of equipment design
  • Review and revise installation, operation and performance qualification/verification related documents, including SOPs, CAI Requisition Request validation/verification master plans, guidelines and execution plans
  • Ability to interpret client\'s needs, assess requirements, and identify solutions to non-standard requests
  • Assumes personal responsibility for specific, straightforward components of larger projects
  • Project Management capability to reliably create resource loaded schedules
  • Demonstrates awareness of financial and economic levers that impact business performance and deploys them to improve results
  • Promotes risk awareness and reviews risk management performance
  • Fosters a customer-focused environment and identifies customer requirements
  • Maintains accountability and delegates appropriately to achieve objectives
  • Identifies agendas, concerns, and motivations of others and negotiates win-win solutions
  • Shapes roles and assignments to leverage capabilities and develops successors
  • Creates an environment where performance excellence is rewarded
  • Leads with integrity and safety-centered culture
  • Ability to travel as needed (Italy and abroad)
Responsibilities
  • Provide knowledge and experience in validation approaches applied to systems and processes
  • Manage Deviation/Change Control applied to validation study
  • Experience in Process Validation, cleaning validation, equipment qualification, filter validation
  • Support generation of commissioning and qualification procedures for client projects
  • Support commissioning, qualification and validation review/qualification of equipment design
  • Review and revise a variety of installation, operation and performance qualification/verification related documents, including SOPs, validation/verification master plans, guidelines and execution plans
  • Ensure the highest quality, compliance and safety standards
  • Work collaboratively to facilitate client alignment and adoption of best practices for validation
  • Project Management: create resource loaded schedules and manage straightforward components of larger projects
  • Apply commercial insights to improve short- and long-term results
  • Focus on customers by identifying and anticipating requirements
  • Lead execution by maintaining accountability and delegating appropriately
  • Influence and engage others to create win-win outcomes
  • Build talent by coaching and developing others and promoting diverse talent
  • Achieve results with people by fostering energy, ownership and high standards
  • Lead courageously and safely by promoting safe, inclusive culture and integrity
  • Willingness to travel domestically and internationally

CAI Technical Consulting Malaysia SDN (cagents.com) delivers operational readiness consulting for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and healthcare clients to prepare for full-scale production. It works by conducting operational readiness assessments and then providing tailored implementation plans that cover project planning, production operations, asset management, reliability, and sustainability, plus specialized services like Digital Pathology Validation for Leica Biosystems. The firm differentiates itself through active industry collaboration, ongoing professional development, and a global, hands-on approach that pairs quick assessments with practical, cost-effective solutions. Its goal is to help clients achieve operational excellence and successful scale-up by delivering ready-to-deploy strategies and compliant processes.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Pre-seed

Total Funding

$3.4M

Headquarters

Indianapolis, Indiana

Founded

1996

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • JLL Partners investment expands CAI globally across four continents for 700 professionals.
  • Fedegari partnership integrates turnkey sterilization, cutting biotech lifecycle costs.
  • CAI's CQV services marked 30 years in 2026, accelerating facility compliance worldwide.

What critics are saying

  • Oracle Life Sciences automates CQV with cloud platforms, eroding CAI's share in 12 months.
  • Fedegari sells sterilization systems directly, capturing pharma clients in 18 months.
  • JLL-mandated expansion dilutes CAI expertise, causing CQV failures in 24 months.

What makes CAI unique

  • CAI specializes in commissioning, qualification, and validation for life sciences facilities.
  • CAI delivers operational readiness assessments for biotech and pharma full-scale production.
  • CAI pioneered neurodiversity hiring in enterprise consulting services.

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Benefits

100% Employee Owned

24 Days PTO/5 Sick days per year + Additional Holidays depending on Country

Medical / Dental / Vision (In accordance with each countries’ applicable regulations)

Professional Development (Approximately $5,000 paid career-related, continuing education)

ESOP/401k – 15% Company Contribution

Company Paid Long-Term Disability

Company Paid Life Insurance

Company Paid Parental Leave (In accordance with each countries’ applicable regulations)

Other Benefits Depending on Country

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