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ABEC
501-1,000 employees
Integrated bioprocessing equipment and services.
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Springfield, MO, USA
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- BS in an Engineering field (Mechanical, Biological, Chemical or equivalent experience).
- The project engineer designs, specifies and commissions new and renovated biopharmaceutical process and clean utility equipment; provides engineering support and leads deviation investigations for equipment and manufacturing processes.
- As Project Engineer you will be responsible to provide the Project Manager with assistance required to attain or exceed the project operating income, project execution plan and customer satisfaction goals.
- Day-to-day activities include, but are not limited to, designing, reviewing, estimating, labor management and tracking, enhancing customer relationships, and scheduling responsibilities.
- Ability to work in a professional team-based office environment and meet date-driven customer focused commitments.
- Keep assigned Project Manager(s), Project Team Members and Departmental Management Supervisors apprised of project workload progress, needs and updates on a regular basis.
- Monitor all project costs & identify any scope of supply changes affecting project cost.
- Function as direct customer contact on technical items related to assigned projects.
- Prepare & update ‘Project Scope Report’.
- Supports Project Manager activities and responsibilities on “as-needed” bases when required or when the Project Manager is not available.
- Work to meet all departmental Goals, Objectives and Metric based improvement initiatives.
- Review, generate and comprehend customer-based specifications, requirements and proposal documents.
- Review & analysis of customer specifications with respect to company offer, scope of supply & commercial terms.
- Prepare & maintain contract files in accordance with Company procedures.
- Support Company Designers on Engineering-related deliverables while meeting customer expectations for equipment requirements related to form, fit and function.
- Support the creation and approval of key Engineering / Design documentation (i.e. P+ID’s, GA’s, Detailed Design Drawings, BOM’s).
- Perform calculations required for equipment verification and component / system sizing.
- Preparation of specifications, equipment data sheets, and technical review of vendor quotes.
- Support design verification activities and participate in Design-driven Model reviews.
- Review and Approve related Engineering Change Notices (ECN’s) and ensure their accuracy and completeness prior to their publication and release throughout the organization (i.e. purchasing, quality, production).
- Support Automation and Electrical Engineering Resources on related deliverables driven by customer expectations related to equipment communications and / or functionality.
- Work with company Automation resources to review customer requirements and generate / approve related automation documentation including but not limited to Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and Detailed Design Specifications (DDS).
- Support Manufacturing and Quality based resources in their work to fabricate, assemble and qualify Engineering / Design deliverables in support of customer driven requirements.
- Function as company contact on technical items related to assigned projects under fabrication and quality verification.
- Supervision and/or conduct FAT and/or SAT activities both domestically and internationally.
- Generate required test plans and work with customers to seek approval in advance.
- Support the development of engineering standards, procedures & procedures for review by departmental management.
- Support Departmental and Organizational efforts to improve performance and reduce operational costs by identifying potential items for consideration, and participating in company sponsored process improvement teams as assigned.
- Travel to customer job sites as required.
- Execute other tasks as assigned.
- Will play an active role in identifying and driving Continuous Improvement (CI) opportunity.
- 3 years post graduate Engineering experience in related industry preferred.
- Preferred experience of 5 years post graduate Engineering experience working in a BioPharm or Piping systems market and / or direct experience supporting the manufacture and testing of custom equipment, machinery and components driven by customer specifications.
- 2 years’ experience in support of automation and control systems engineering related to bioprocesses preferred.
- Awareness of and prior experience with implementing Continuous Improvement (CI) a plus.
- Prior Lean/Six Sigma experience a plus.
ABEC provides integrated biopharmaceutical manufacturing solutions and services. It supports vaccine and antibody production with bioprocess engineering, equipment maintenance, troubleshooting, and repairs, plus design and build of complete bioprocess lines. It offers customized single-use disposable containers, especially Custom Single Run (CSR) products, leveraging 45+ years of design experience. Its goal is to help clients scale manufacturing faster and at lower costs through in-house engineering, global capacity, and long-term partnerships.
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Founded
1974
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- ABEC's $11M Wilson, NC expansion boosts capacity starting April 2023.
- 5-year warranty on CSR single-use systems enhances client confidence.
- ATB bioreactor launched March 31, 2025, advances ATMP cell therapy production.
What critics are saying
- GOOD Meat counterclaims breach contract, draining resources since March 2023.
- Thermo Fisher undercuts with 0.2L-2000L perfusion systems capturing ATMP clients.
- Sartorius delivers 30% faster single-use containers via German cleanrooms.
What makes ABEC unique
- ABEC's CSR bioreactors enable seamless scale-up from 200L to production matching stainless steel performance.
- ABEC offers largest global biopharma manufacturing with 367,500 ft² and ISO-7 cleanrooms.
- ABEC delivers customized single-use systems exclusively for production-scale bioprocessing over 45 years.
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Benefits
Paid Holidays
Paid Vacation
Medical, dental and vision insurance
Company paid life insurance
401(k) Company Match
401(k) Retirement Plan
College tuition benefit program
Employee Referral Program
Company News
ABEC, a global leader in engineered solutions and services for biotechnology manufacturing, has introduced its Advanced Therapy Bioreactor (ATB(TM), a revolutionary platform focused on transforming cell expansion for Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs).
Eat Just and its cultivated meat subsidiary GOOD Meat have reached an agreement in principle to settle their legal dispute* with bioreactor supplier ABEC, according to court documents, although the matter has not yet reached a final resolution.In a letter to Judge Wendy Beetlestone dated February 6, attorneys for both parties explained that they “have engaged in serious settlement negotiations over the past few months and have reached an agreement in principle regarding the framework for a settlement agreement and the material terms.“However, due to the complex nature of the claims, defenses, and counterclaims,” they added, “the parties require additional time to draft a binding agreement.”In a court order filed on February 7, Judge Beetlestone agreed to their request for the court to appoint a magistrate judge as settlement master to facilitate a final resolution, but rejected their request for a 30-day stay on the litigation and all case deadlines.Neither party has responded to a request for comment from AgFunderNews.What is the case about?The legal dispute began in March 2023 when ABEC filed a lawsuit accusing GOOD Meat of breach of contract by failing to pay its bills on time.According to ABEC, GOOD Meat owed $62,649,231.79 for work ABEC had already completed. Eat Just, in turn, claimed that ABEC had breached the terms of their contract.ABEC, which had been working with GOOD Meat on pilot cultivated chicken facilities in California and Singapore, signed an agreement with the startup in August 2021. Under the seven-year deal, ABEC would design, manufacture, install and commission multiple 250,000-liter vessels— “the largest known bioreactors for avian and mammalian cell culture”—for a large-scale facility in the US.Given “financing hurdles,” by November 2022, Eat Just/GOOD Meat “recommended the evaluation of a phased approach, creating five 125,000-L bioreactors instead of four 250,000-L bioreactors,” and the two started corresponding over amendments to their agreement.By March 2023, ABEC said it had had no choice but to take legal action over unpaid bills. Eat Just/GOOD Meat responded by filing a series of counterclaims, arguing that the parties never formally ratified amendments to their original agreement, and that ABEC had simply proceeded as if they had.Speaking to AgFunderNews last year, Eat Just founder and CEO Josh Tetrick said he was “not attempting to raise money for a large-scale cultivated meat facility right now” and was instead focusing on process development at the firm’s plant in Alameda, California, and working on new cell lines he claimed would enable more efficient large-scale production.*The case is ABEC, Inc. v. Eat Just, Inc
Cultivated meat startup GOOD Meat has upped the ante in its increasingly ugly legal dispute with bioreactor specialist ABEC over alleged nonpayment of bills. GOOD has filed a series of counterclaims alleging that ABEC breached the terms of their contract and that GOOD Meat is in fact the wronged party. The litigation began in March 2023 when ABEC filed a lawsuit accusing GOOD Meat (a wholly owned subsidiary of Eat Just) of breach of contract by failing to pay its bills on time. ABEC, which had been working with GOOD Meat on pilot cultivated chicken facilities in California and Singapore, signed an agreement with the startup in August 2021. Under the seven-year deal, ABEC would design, manufacture, install and commission multiple 250,000-liter vessels— “the largest known bioreactors for avian and mammalian cell culture”—for a large-scale facility in the US with the capacity to produce up to 30 million pounds of meat
Eat Just—like Beyond Meat—is often seen as a proxy for the broader alternative protein space, regarded by some as a visionary foodtech pioneer attempting to disrupt two vast addressable markets (meat, eggs) and by other less charitable observers as a “house of cards built on one individual’s ability to separate people from their money.”. Regardless of where you sit on this spectrum, says one foodtech investor we spoke to this week, it would be “pretty catastrophic” for the category if either of these loss-making firms were to crash and burn, so a lot is riding on their performance in the coming months. So how should we view Eat Just, and can Tetrick—”one of the best capital-raisers in the business“— raise the funds to take cultivated meat from a loss-making novelty to a commercially viable alternative to animal agriculture?
Malcolm joins KPC from ABEC Inc, where he led the development of their European Services Business and contributed to their global capital project expansion.