{"id":4288360,"url":"https://alion.io/job/catalent-lead-calibration-engineer","title":"Lead Calibration Engineer","company":{"id":1785256,"name":"Catalent","domain":"catalent.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/catalent-com","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":null},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Swindon, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"GMP","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-28T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-28","last_verified_at":"2026-11-13T22:34:57Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":17,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":17},"description":"Our Swindon facility houses our Zydis® fast dissolving tablet development and manufacturing operation as well as a CMC pharmaceutical analytical lab services unit that offers ASAP stability.\nPosition Summary\nWe have an opportunity for a Lead Calibration Engineer to join our team. This role combines hands-on calibration work with leadership responsibilities, ensuring all activities are completed safely and in compliance with GMP standards. You will act as a technical expert and mentor, supporting a small team of engineers and technicians. This is a key position for maintaining equipment reliability and driving team performance in a pharmaceutical manufacturing environment.\nShift: Monday to Friday plus call out\nLocation: Swindon, UK\n100% Onsite\nThe Role\nPerform hands-on calibration, testing, fault finding and troubleshooting of pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment, ensuring compliance with site procedures and GMP requirements.\n\nLead and coordinate the day-to-day activities of the Calibration team, allocating and prioritising workloads to meet business needs.\n\nProvide technical guidance, mentoring and support to calibration engineers and technicians, fostering team capability and development.\n\nEnsure all calibration activities are completed safely, accurately and within agreed timescales, maintaining equipment calibration status at all times.\n\nInvestigate and resolve calibration failures, deviations and equipment-related issues, escalating risks where appropriate.\n\nMaintain and review calibration records and documentation, ensuring compliance with GMP, data integrity and quality standards.\n\nCollaborate with Engineering, Manufacturing, Maintenance and Quality teams to coordinate activities, minimise downtime and drive continuous improvement initiatives.\n\nMonitor team performance, support training and audits, deputise for management when required, and remain actively involved in the execution of calibration work.\n\nThe Candidate\nMinimum Requirements\nPrevious experience in a hands-on calibration role, preferably within a pharmaceutical manufacture, GMP or similarly regulated environment is essential.\n\nStrong practical knowledge of calibration principles, instrumentation and associated equipment.\n\nPrevious experience leading, coordinating or supervising a small technical team desirable.\n\nComfortable balancing hands-on technical work with people leadership and day-to-day coordination.\n\nGood understanding of GMP, data integrity and pharmaceutical engineering standards.\n\nPreferred Skills & Background\nStrong organisational and prioritisation skills.\n\nAbility to manage competing priorities and respond effectively to operational requirements.\n\nStrong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.\n\nGood communication and stakeholder management skills.\n\nA proactive approach to continuous improvement.\n\nAbility to lead by example and work effectively as part of a wider engineering/operations team.\n\nWhy You Should Join Catalent\nOur Swindon facility houses our Zydis® fast dissolving tablet development and manufacturing operation as well as a CMC pharmaceutical analytical lab services unit that offers ASAP stability.\n\nCompetitive Salary - Reflecting your experience and skills.\n\nBonus & Benefits - Includes a site performance bonus, a pension scheme matching up to 8% and life assurance. Enjoy a generous holiday entitlement that increases with tenure, with the option to purchase additional leave. Plus, gain access to Reward Gateway, offering discounts at many national retailers.\n\nCareer Development - Access high-quality training, mentoring, and cross-functional opportunities within Catalent’s global network. Benefit from a subscription to LinkedIn Learning, providing access to 10,000+ online courses.\n\nHealth & Wellbeing - Includes an employee assistance programme, on-site canteen facilities, and an active safety and “Patient First” culture. Take advantage of a Cycle to Work Scheme and an Electric Vehicle car scheme.\n\nExcellent Location - Just a two-minute drive from J16 of the M4, with free on-site parking.\n\nCatalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career! Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference.\npersonal initiative. dynamic pace. meaningful work.\nVisit Catalent Careers to explore career opportunities.\nCatalent is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate based on any characteristic protected by local law.\nIf you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability, you may submit your request by sending an email, and confirming your request for an accommodation and include the job number, title and location to . This option is reserved for individuals who require accommodation due to a disability. Information received will be processed by a U.S. Catalent employee and then routed to a local recruiter who will provide assistance to ensure appropriate consideration in the application or hiring process.\nNotice to Agency and Search Firm Representatives: Catalent Pharma Solutions (Catalent) is not accepting unsolicited resumes from agencies and/or search firms for this job posting. Resumes submitted to any Catalent employee by a third party agency and/or search firm without a valid written & signed search agreement, will become the sole property of Catalent. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral. 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