Cleaning Validation Engineer

Purpose of the role:

Read on to find out what you will need to succeed in this position, including skills, qualifications, and experience.

Support Site Cleaning Validation Expert by delivering recognized expertise in Cleaning Validation to ensure patient safety, regulatory compliance and sustainable processes, across routine operations and project activities.

Key Accountabilities

1. Cleaning Development & Cleaning Validation

• Contribute to the definition and continuous improvement of robust, science and risk-based cleaning strategies (worst-case, grouping, bracketing)
• Support the development and optimization of cleaning processes and methods
• Define and justify acceptance criteria (MACO, HBEL/PDE, health-based exposure limits)
• Author, review and support approval of Cleaning Validation documentation (protocols, reports)
• Ensure procedures are kept up to date in line with current GMP expectations and regulatory guidelines
• Actively coach and share knowledge on regulatory evolutions and best practices across teams
• Provide expert support in deviations, investigations and CAPA, ensuring rootcause driven and compliant solutions

2. Alignment & Business Partnering

• Drive harmonization and standardization of practices across Business Units
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and lessons learned
• Contribute to project governance and cross-functional collaboration
• Support definition of resource needs and expertise allocation
• Contribute to budget planning (projects & capability building)

3. Regulatory & Technical Excellence

• Maintain an active regulatory and technological watch
• Ensure Qualification & Validation practices remain inspection-ready and aligned with global expectations
• Contribute to the deployment of global initiatives (QMS, continuous improvement, digitalization)

4. Audit Readiness & Quality Oversight

• Ensure auditability and data integrity of Cleaning Validation documentation
• Proactively escalate quality risks impacting product quality and patient safety

5. Culture & Ways of Working

• Contribute to a trust-based, collaborative and inclusive work environment
• Promote One mindset, teamwork and knowledge sharing
• Support a continuous improvement culture focused on delivering value to patients

Key Behaviours & Mindset

• Proactive and solution-oriented, anticipating risks and driving pragmatic outcomes
• Trusted Cleaning Validation expert, bringing credibility and technical leadership
• Reliable and accountable, committed to high quality standards
• Collaborative team player, enabling cross-functional success
• Humble and knowledge-sharing, empowering teams without seeking authority
• Respectful of roles and governance, acting as a partner to Business Units
• Hands-on and pragmatic, close to operations and reality

Key Deliverables

• Harmonized, compliant and inspection-ready cleaning validation strategies
• High-quality validation documentation
• Strong support to investigations and continuous improvement
• Effective knowledge transfer and capability building across team

Who we are

Akkodis is a global digital engineering and smart industry leader, bringing together talent and technology to engineer a smarter future. With more than 50,000 experts worldwide and over 1,000 in Belgium, we support companies across industries in innovation, digital transformation and R&D; from consulting and talent solutions to end-to-end project delivery. Driven by passion, expertise and impact, we make incredible happen.

In Belgium, we operate through 7 dedicated practices, where our consultants receive the technical guidance, coaching and support they need to grow and fully unlock their potential. We believe in empowering our talent by providing the right expertise, knowledge-sharing and development opportunities to help them thrive. Our practices: Product & System Development, Validation & Verification, Manufacturing & Operations, Cloud Infrastructures & Security, Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence, Digital & Software and Wireless & Connectivity.

Akkodis is part of the Adecco Group. xlxgzvr You can find more information on our website : : Roufaidaa.