Job Description Summary

The Manufacturing Scientist develops, scales, and optimizes robust manufacturing processes while working hands‑on with equipment and operators on the production floor. The role supports both new and commercial products within a highly regulated environment, ensuring GMP compliance, sterility assurance, and alignment with technical and quality standards. It requires strong engineering competence, problem‑solving skills, and close collaboration across production, R&D, suppliers, and cross‑functional teams.

Job Description

Role Summary / Purpose

The Manufacturing Scientist has a key technical role within the Engineering Department, specifically the Process Engineering & Compliance Team. This team is responsible for developing, scaling, and industrializing robust manufacturing processes and for supporting commercial and life‑cycle products across the production network.

This position requires a strong engineering mindset, practical problem‑solving skills, and hands‑on engagement with equipment, processes, and operators on the production floor. The Manufacturing Engineer works in close daily interaction with production units, commercial product development, and internal stakeholders across the Core Imaging Supply Chain (Life Sciences, GE Healthcare).

Core Imaging focuses on neurology, oncology, and cardiology, supplying contrast media and molecular imaging products across X‑Ray, MRI, Ultrasound, SPECT, and PET. Product formats include aqueous solutions, gas bubbles, cassette‑based products, and freeze‑dried formulations. As products are intended for intravenous use, sterility assurance and microbiological control are essential elements of this role.

Essential Responsibilities

• Develop and scale robust and practical production processes from early development through pre‑clinical and clinical phases and into commercial manufacturing.
• Actively work on the production floor to understand, troubleshoot, and improve processes using engineering expertise and hands‑on problem solving.
• Optimize and automate existing production processes using available control systems to achieve lean, stable, and GMP‑compliant operations.
• Collaborate with Engineering and vendors to design and qualify equipment that is fit for purpose and aligned with process needs.
• Contribute technical expertise to formulation development, both internally and in cooperation with R&D and external partners.
• Ensure that formulations, materials, processes, and equipment follow the required specifications, quality standards, and control strategies.
• Prepare, review, and deliver scientific documentation to support regulatory submissions (IND, IMPD, NDA, MAA, etc.).

Qualifications / Requirements

• MSc/BSc in Engineering, Cybernetics, Process Control, Electronics, Technical Pharmaceutics, or similar fields.
• Strong understanding of dynamic process control, DCS / PLC-SCADA control systems, instrumentation, bus systems and communication protocols
• Ability to combine theoretical knowledge with practical, hands‑on work.
• Strong analytical and systematic problem‑solving capability.
• Self‑driven, independent, and comfortable working cross‑functionally in multicultural teams.
• Strong communication skills in English and Norwegian.
• Proficiency with standard office software and experience with process design tools (e.g., Visio) and statistical tools.

Desired Characteristics / Skills

• Experience from pharmaceutical production or similar regulated, process‑intensive industries.
• Demonstrated ability to work both at a strategic/engineering level and in practical, hands‑on process development.
• Technical curiosity and a strong interest in equipment, automation and process control.
• Experience with GMP requirements and pharmaceutical product development.
• Ability to build strong internal and external networks and collaborate across functions.

GE HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer where inclusion matters. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviors: to act with humility and build trust; lead with transparency; deliver with focus, and drive ownership – always with unyielding integrity.

Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you’d expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration and support.

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