Validation Engineer

Be a part of a revolutionary change At PMI, we’ve chosen to do something incredible. We’re totally transforming our business and building our future on smoke-free products with the power to improve the lives of a billion smokers worldwide. Wherever you join our crucial 47,000-strong Operations team, you’ll have the opportunity to make an impact. PMI’s shift from selling cigarettes to our new smoke-free products has changed the way we work. New products bring new challenges – in the way we source and buy raw materials, in the way we engineer and manufacture, and in our supply chain planning. Manufacturing team’s Zero Loss Journey is hinged on this vision as we strive to achieve sustainable performance. With huge change, comes huge opportunity. So, wherever you join us, you’ll enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions and the space to move your career forward in endlessly different directions. Bring us your curiosity and a desire to challenge the everyday and we’ll give you lots of responsibility. You’ll help us improve, inject innovation and create new ways of working. You’ll be solving supply chain problems that span the whole world: a smoke-free world. Your ‘day to day’ You will ensure manufacturing process (including equipment, methods) and Local RRP Computerized Systems are appropriately qualified and validated while conducting review of related documentation and leading quality risk assessment and change management activities. Your responsibilities include: Validation Activities Lead and execute validation activities that are identified and required. Prepare all the documentation associated by ensuring the execution following the plan. Ensure that all validation activities are carried out and reported in a timely manner. Ensure that all deviations during validation activities are investigated and escalated when required. Propose action plans and ensure that correctives/preventives actions are followed and closed on time. For Local RRP Computerized Systems review user, functional and technical specifications. Develop test plans, coordinate and supervise testing phases and manage issues. Review test scripts for functional testing, regression testing and load testing. Validation Sustainability Organize and lead the Continued Verification Assessment and the re-execution of validation protocols according to the plan and procedures. Provide reports and other documentation associated with validations, as appropriate for each validation exercise. Change Management Lead and coordinate change management process in the factory and ensure validated state of the manufacturing processes, methods and systems is maintained. Ensure the reporting and the update of key metrics. Perform Risk Assessment for system changes. Risk-Assessment Provide support and act as SME / Facilitator for the Quality Risk Assessment. Ensure the appropriate methodologies are implemented and mitigation plans defined and followed up by the relevant responsible persons as per established quality requirements. Communication & Project Provide full support by sharing expertise and knowledge to business owners and relevant stakeholders. Through effective communication and training initiatives, develop cross-functional and cross-departmental staff (in projects and validation teams) to ensure that validation projects are carried out in accordance with internal Policies and Procedures. Ensure compliance through assisting in audits. Participate in reviews in all phases of the software development cycle. Support Project and Operation teams in relation to CSV worldwide. QMS Support Participate to the creation/update of procedures, work instructions and others Quality Documents that are required. Provide support and training by ensuring a transfer of knowledge according to the training management system. Contribute to overall CSV best practices, strategy and methodology. Recommend process upgrades and efficiency improvements and implement them. Who we’re looking for You must have a bachelor’s degree in in Biological sciences, Physical sciences, Chemistry, Engineering or equivalent education and you have had at least 3-5 years of experience in quality assurance in tobacco, food, pharmaceutical or similar industry and/or 3-5 years’ experience as a specialist in a relevant area of activity. Preferably with experience both in equipment qualification and computerized system validation. You must also be amenable to work in Batangas Plant (FPIP). What we offer Our success depends on the men and women who come to work every single day with a sense of purpose and an appetite for progress. Join PMI and you too can: • Seize the freedom to define your future and ours. We’ll empower you to take risks, experiment and explore. • Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture, where everyone’s contribution is respected; collaborate with some of the world’s best people and feel like you belong. • Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business – our staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress. • Take pride in delivering our promise to society: to improve the lives of a billion smokers.