Head of Global Engineering
Centrient Pharmaceuticals
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Rotterdam • 🇳🇱 Netherlands
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Lead
About the role
- Provide strategic leadership to the Global Engineering Function, overseeing all Engineering Projects, Maintenance programs, and long-term asset management initiatives across the network.
- Lead global Process Safety governance, ensuring robust engineering standards, compliance, technical assessments, and uniform implementation of best practices across all sites.
- Drive the Operational Technology (OT) and digital transformation agenda, enabling modernization, automation, and enhanced connectivity to support efficiency, data integrity, and future-ready operations.
- Strengthen asset reliability and performance, oversee capital planning and execution (CapEx), and build engineering capability through global frameworks, standardization, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Provide strategic direction, coaching, and functional support to engineering teams across 8 manufacturing sites in India, China, Europe, and the Americas, ensuring alignment, operational excellence, and consistent engineering performance worldwide.
- Foster a high-performance culture focused on safety, efficiency and continuous improvement.
- Partner closely with site and corporate teams to ensure alignment, compliance, and operational excellence.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience in API/Pharma engineering.
- Proven experience managing multi-country engineering operations.
- Strong exposure to global engineering governance, process safety, and CapEx.
- Ability to lead cross-functional and cross-geography teams.
- Experience in OT, automation, or digital engineering will be an advantage.
Benefits
- A global multinational/cultural professional environment where your personality, knowledge and competence are the key to success;
- 25 paid holidays;
- Flexible/Hybrid working;
- 12 weeks of gender neutral parental leave;
- Competitive pension plan.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
engineering governanceprocess safetycapital planningautomationdigital engineeringasset managementcontinuous improvementtechnical assessmentsengineering standardsdata integrity
Soft skills
strategic leadershipcoachingoperational excellencecross-functional leadershiphigh-performance culturealignmentcommunicationteam supportglobal collaborationperformance management