Principal Engineer Technical Safety

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com . As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit. Job Function: Supply Chain Engineering Job Sub Function: Process Engineering Job Category: Scientific/Technology All Job Posting Locations: Geel, Antwerp, Belgium Job Description: Technical Safety Engineer — ATLAS Project   Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine | Global Engineering & Technology | Geel, Belgium   Help shape the future of safe pharmaceutical manufacturing. Join Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine in Geel as a Technical Safety Engineer and take a leading role in ATLAS, a strategic capacity expansion that will prepare our site for future patient needs.   At our Geel site—our supply chain’s largest chemical production site for synthetic active pharmaceutical ingredients—you will work where engineering excellence directly supports the reliable delivery of lifesaving medicines. Geel also has a “launch & grow” mission for new pharmaceutical products, creating an environment where new technology, strong partnerships and a practical can-do mindset come together.   This is a highly visible, high-impact opportunity to influence the safety of major new installations from design through delivery—while growing your expertise alongside an experienced technical safety team. Your opportunity Are you a hands-on engineer who enjoys turning complex safety requirements into practical, compliant solutions? In this role, you will connect project teams, external engineering partners and site experts to ensure that technical safety is embedded in every phase of the ATLAS project.   About ATLAS and your role As Technical Safety Engineer, you will be the central contact for all technical safety topics within ATLAS. You will guide an external engineering company and collaborate with internal engineers to ensure that applicable requirements are understood, translated into design decisions and implemented effectively. ATLAS is a strategic capacity expansion at the Geel site. It includes the replacement and expansion of reactors; the installation of centrifuges, dryers and filter dryers; and the utility and infrastructure modifications needed within existing production buildings. The new multipurpose installations will increase operational flexibility, support future demand and meet evolving compliance expectations. You do not need to be the deepest expert in every discipline from day one. What matters is your ability to take ownership, ask the right questions, bring specialists together and steer the project toward safe, robust and compliant solutions. Your scope will include functional safety, emergency relief device calculations, ATEX and the Explosion Protection Document (EPD), Pressure Equipment Directive (PED) compliance, machine safety, process safety calculations, inertisation and static electricity.

Serve as the single point of contact for Global Engineering & Technology technical safety within the ATLAS project. Translate technical safety standards and regulatory requirements into clear, actionable expectations for design and execution teams. Guide and challenge external engineering partners, while aligning maintenance, engineering, operations and EHS stakeholders. Own and