AssociateDirectorProcessEngineering–APICOM

**Associate Director Process Engineering – APICOM (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient Commercialisation)** **Location Dublin** **Competitive salary and benefits** Join the team where everyone feels a personal connection to the people that we impact. From our science labs to manufacturing at scale, we are committed to delivering at the highest quality. It’s inspiring and rewarding work, influencing every part of the product lifecycle to deliver life-changing medicines. To ultimately make people’s lives better – from patients and their families to all of us in society! AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven biopharmaceutical company where we focus on the discovery, development and delivery of life-saving medicines to our patients in addition to our belief in sustainability and determination to minimise the impact of our work on the environment. We are proud to be a great place to work and have a culture that inspires innovation and collaboration. We empower our colleagues to express diverse perspectives and at the same time feel valued, respected and rewarded for their ideas and creativity. The Associate Director will join a team utilising technical excellence to ensure the safe and timely introduction and manufacture of late stage clinical and commercial API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients) from an API Commercialisation Facility (APICOM) being constructed in Dublin. This state-of-the-art facility includes the lastest manufacturing and digital technologies to support autonomous batch and continuous manufacturing. As part of a team of Manufacturing Technical Specialists and Process/Chemical Engineers, you will provide a deep understanding of batch and continuous API manufacturing and manufacturing innovation to ensure successful planning and accommodation of new processes, the transfer of process knowledge from development and deliver new technology projects within APICOM. Initially the successful applicant will support the definition of the ways of working for AP