Utilities Engineer

TekWissen LLC

Vacaville, CA

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$40
SKILLS
Agriculture, Analysis Skills, Biology, Biotech and Pharmaceutical, Budgeting, Capital Project, Commissioning, Construction Design, Continuous Improvement, Corrective Action, Corrective and Preventative Action (CAPA) Systems, Cross-Functional, Current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP), Customer Support/Service, Disease, Diversity, Documentation, Drug Manufacturing, Electricity, Engineering, FDA (Food and Drug Administration), Facilities Engineering, Facilities and Maintenance, GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices), Gene Therapy, ISA Standards, Identify Issues, Instrumentation, Maintain Compliance, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Operations, Material Science, Medical Products, Multitasking, Nutrition, Operational Support, Performance Analysis, Personal Care, Process Engineering, Project Close-Out, Project Commissioning, Project Design, Project Execution, Project Schedule, Project/Program Management, Regulations, Reliability Engineering, Request for Proposals (RFP), Root Cause Analysis, Systems Reliability, Team Player, Technical Support, Technical/Engineering Design, Water For Injection (WFI), Workforce Management
LOCATION
Vacaville, CA
POSTED
1 day ago
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a leading biotechnology company that combines technological insight with world-class manufacturing, scientific expertise, and process excellence and helps their customers to deliver new and innovative medicines that help treat a wide range of diseases. Our client specializes in pharmaceutical ingredients, Bioscience, Biopharmaceuticals, Custom manufacturing, Biotechnology, Life science ingredients, Nutrition, Microbial Control, Agriculture, Materials Science, Personal Care, and cell and gene therapy.
Job Title: Utilities Engineer
Location: Vacaville, CA, 95688
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Summary:
The Utility Engineer serves as the subject matter expert (SME) for plant utility systems, including WFI, WRO, clean steam, and other process utilities. This role supports manufacturing operations by ensuring utility systems are reliable, compliant, and operating efficiently in a GMP/biopharmaceutical environment. The Utility Engineer also leads engineering improvements, supports capital projects, and ensures uninterrupted utility performance while maintaining regulatory compliance.
Responsibilities
  • Serve as the technical expert for plant utility systems, including WFI, WRO, clean steam, water pretreatment, compressed air, gases, wastewater, and chemical distribution systems.
  • Identify, analyze, and implement improvements to utility, facility, and process systems.
  • Monitor utility system performance and troubleshoot equipment or process issues to ensure uninterrupted manufacturing operations.
  • Provide technical support to manufacturing, maintenance, operations, and facilities teams, including off-hours support when needed.
  • Lead or support engineering projects through design, construction, commissioning, qualification, validation, and project close-out.
  • Develop and review engineering documents, including PFDs, P&IDs, specifications, URS, RFQs, FAT/SAT, IQ protocols, project schedules, budgets, and contractor packages.
  • Ensure utility systems comply with FDA, EMA, cGMP, and applicable engineering standards.
  • Support deviations, investigations, CAPAs, audit readiness, and regulatory inspections.
  • Perform root cause analysis and implement corrective and preventive actions to improve system reliability and performance.
  • Collaborate with Manufacturing, Quality, Maintenance, Facilities, and Global Engineering teams to support site objectives and continuous improvement initiatives.
Required Skills & Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Industrial, or a related Engineering discipline.
  • 3 8+ years of experience in utility engineering, process engineering, or facilities engineering, preferably in a GMP-regulated pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical manufacturing environment.
  • Strong knowledge of utility systems, including WFI, WRO, clean steam, water systems, compressed air, gases, wastewater, and chemical distribution.
  • Experience with engineering design, project execution, commissioning, qualification, validation, and lifecycle management.
  • Working knowledge of FDA, EMA, cGMP regulations, instrumentation, ISA standards, and engineering documentation.
  • Strong troubleshooting, root cause analysis, project management, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment while ensuring regulatory compliance and operational reliability.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

About the Company

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TekWissen LLC

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.



COMPANY SIZE
100 to 499 employees
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
2009
WEBSITE
http://www.tekwissen.com/