Process Microbiologist

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: Manufacturing Engineering Job Category: Scientific/Technology All Job Posting Locations: Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands Job Description: Location: Leiden, Netherlands Contract: Full Time/Contract Department: Operations Large Molecules (CV19) Johnson&Johnson is currently recruiting a Process Microbiologist within our Operations to strengthen our team. Do you have a background in biologics, pharmaceutical and/or manufacturing industry with knowledge about processing and biosafety containment? And are you excited to be part of our process improvements and projects?  At the Johnson & Johnson Company (JNJ) in the Leiden Bioscience Park, we are working to create a world without diseases. Transforming lives by finding new and better ways to prevent, intercept, treat and cure disease inspires us. We bring together the best minds and hearts to pursue the most promising science into life changing product for patients around the globe. One of the important areas for our operations in Leiden is the production of medicines against cancer and chronic diseases like arthritis.  The vacancy is reporting directly to the Senior Director of the operations in large molecules. The heart of our production is in our bioreactors, where large molecule medicines are produced and subsequently purified. We work with more than 1000 talented and multi-skilled people in this area. The facility has a large manufacturing footprint with aggressive capacity expansion projects for existing and new products. Are you excited to understand and improve our current processes, to support new equipment installation and product onboarding within an ambitious setting in a global company? Do you get energy from working together and contribute to improve the life of patients? Then this is your job!  You will join a team of Process Microbiologists in Large molecules on the site and work with QA microbiologists and your colleagues on other sites.  The Process Microbiologist is responsible for the development and improvement of the contamination control strategies, contamination prevention programs, microbiological hygiene programs, and supports the investigation when a microbiological contamination has occurred or when the microbiological hygiene monitoring program gives cause for this. The Process Microbiologist is jointly responsible for establishing, managing and rolling out the training curriculum regarding microbiological hygiene & contamination prevention. He / she gives practical advice to production employees, team leaders and operations management in the field of contamination risk prevention. The Process Microbiologist supports a multi-departmental / multifunctional investigation team to establish root cause and determining preventive actions. The Process Microbiologist is often present on the production shop floor where he / she works very closely with the employees and managers of the cleaning department, Operations-shift teams and Maintenance department. There is also close collaboration with the microbiology laboratory and QA & Compliance.  The responsibilities & the impact