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                        Publication date
                    
                    07/10/2025
                
                
                
             Position description
	Category
OPERATIONS - ENGINEERING/PRODUCTION
	Job title
Sustainability Engineer - Life sciences - M/V/X
	Contract
Permanent contract
	Job description
	Departmental Marketing Statement
The service of Project Engineer Sustainability (PE sustainability) is situated in the department Global 
Technology, Engineering & Launch (GTEL) Clinical manufacturing. Clinical manufacturing is key in bringing new 
molecules from lab development work until launch for a broad portfolio of innovative vaccines, biologicals and 
small molecules. Our department forms the bridge between R&D development activities and the manufacturing 
process in commercial plants. To further improve the sustainability of our manufacturing processes and future 
products, we are looking for a PE sustainability.
“The project engineer sustainability will support our next steps on sustainability”
We strongly believe in teamwork! Hence, the tasks listed below are typical for the PE sustainability, but the result 
of the team is paramount.
Tasks
The PE will be involved in various sustainability related efforts for the Puurs Clinical manufacturing.
Key responsibilities are:
• Identify, evaluate & follow-up different (potential) sustainability projects for Puurs Clinical manufacturing
• Collaborate and communicate with different departments within Pfizer (Puurs & global) and external parties 
to collect necessary information & data on sustainability projects.
• Contribute to tools that enable the assessment of the environmental impact of different options when 
making business decisions
• Ensure that new facilities and new processes within the Clinical Manufacturing are designed or operated 
to ensure sustainable manufacturing.
 
 
 
	Business Industry
Life sciences
	Profile
	Skillset/attitude
• Hands-on (engineering) mindset with a strong personal affinity for sustainability
• Able to work independently and in multidisciplinary teams & to interact with different stakeholders
• Flexible, can thrive in a dynamic environment
• Can think both high level/strategic and at the same time be hands-on when doing data collection or 
preparing & executing tests/analyses
• High sense of personal ownership towards sustainability
• Willing to understand the end-to-end pharmaceutical (aseptic) manufacturing processes
Qualifications
• Master with relevant scientific discipline or equivalent, preferably with prior manufacturing related 
experience
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Analytical
• Strong data management skills
• Basic programming skills (Excel VBA/…)
• Fluent written and oral knowledge of English
 Position location
	Job location
Europe, Belgium
	Location
	Puurs
Candidate criteria
	Level of experience
1 to 3 years