Process Engineer (Spray Drying)

About The Job

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is seeking a skilled Process Engineer focused on spray drying processes for tablets or dry powders for a pharmaceutical client in Norton, MA. This role supports scale-up, optimization, and process validation within GMP environments, ensuring product quality, yield, and robust manufacturing performance.

Role accountabilities:

• Lead and optimize spray drying processes for tablets or powders from development through commercialization.
• Design, execute, and analyze experiments to scale processes from pilot to commercial scale; apply statistical methods and design of experiments (DOE) where appropriate.
• Develop and maintain process validation documentation (IQ/OQ/PQ), process controls, and robust process parameters (RPPs).
• Implement process analytical technology (PAT) and Quality by Design (QbD) approaches to monitor critical quality attributes (CQAs) and critical process parameters (CPPs).
• Collaborate with formulation scientists, development, manufacturing, and quality teams to ensure compliant, scalable processes.
• Troubleshoot process deviations, root cause analysis, and implement corrective/preventive actions (CAPA).
• Review and update standard operating procedures (SOPs) and batch records to align with regulatory requirements (GMP, FDA/EU).
• Support risk assessments, process safety reviews, and equipment qualification activities (IQ/OQ/PQ) for spray drying equipment.
• Prepare technical reports, process summaries, and deviation/validation documentation for regulatory submissions.
• Stay current with industry best practices in spray drying, particle engineering, and pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Pharmaceutical Engineering, or a related field
• Hands-on experience with pharmaceutical spray drying processes (tablets or dry powders) in GMP environments.
• Strong understanding of PAT, QbD, DOE, FTIR/NIR/Raman for inline analysis is a plus.
• Experience with process validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) and equipment qualification for spray dryers.
• Familiarity with regulatory expectations (FDA, EMA) and good documentation practices.
• Proficiency in data analysis, statistical tools, and process optimization software.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. Salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.