# Associate Director Principal Engineer

The Associate Director Principal Engineer is responsible providing technical support for process manufacturing, including investigation and correction of process-related problems and deviations from standards. Serves as a Subject Matter Expert for multiple processing operations and provides technical leadership within the Process Engineering team. May lead and manage Technology Transfers to and from the site. Responsibilities Provides technical support for formulation areas, including investigation and correction of process related problems and deviations from standards. Responsible for identifying and executing projects to reduce product cost, improve product quality, improve yield, and reduce material usage. Collaborates with Production, Engineering, Automation, and Quality to optimize productivity, yield, product quality, and supply reliability. Assists in designs and execution of process qualifications and validations for approved changes. Initiates process manufacturing area change proposals as required for projects managed by the Formulation or Process Engineering group. Authors, updates, reviews, and approves area procedures to ensure correct content and compliance with Good

- **Id**: 3875404
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/astrazeneca-associate-director-principal-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Mount Vernon, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T23:46:11Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6589
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Prescription Drugs, Oncology Therapeutics, Rare Disease Therapeutics, Cardiometabolic Therapeutics

## Company

- **Id**: 13195
- **Name**: AstraZeneca
- **Domain**: astrazeneca.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/astra-zeneca>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 93
- **Open postings**: 167
- **Ghost share**: 0.012
- **Stale share**: 0.383
- **Repost share**: 0.108
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 19
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Technologies

- **GMP** — Optional: no
- **ITIL** — Optional: no
- **Statistical Process Control** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T16:07:20Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 19
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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