# Manufacturing Engineer II - Front Line Engineering

Location: Vacaville, California This is a fully site-based role. Working together in person supports close, real-time collaboration and the technical precision needed to manufacture medicines to the highest quality and safety standards. As a Manufacturing Engineer II - Front Line Engineering, you serve as the direct floor-level technical owner and subject matter expert (SME) for the Upstream manufacturing and support systems, including Media Prep and Hold, Clean-in-Place skids, Washers and Autoclaves, Seed Train Operations (Thaw through N-4 stage bioreactors), Large Scale Bioreactors, Process Analytical Technology (PAT), and Harvest / Centrifuge. In this role you will ensure production equipment and systems remain fit-for-purpose, compliant, and ready for use across all make, assess, and release (MAR) operations. Operating with moderate supervision, you bridge engineering, maintenance, and plant operations to maximize uptime, resolve urgent equipment excursions, and maintain strict GMP compliance. What you will get: The full-time base annual salary for this position is expected to range between $93,000 to $155,000. In addition, below you will find a comprehensive summary of the ben

- **Id**: 3531701
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/lonza-manufacturing-engineer-ii-front-line-engineering>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Vacaville, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-30T16:17:04Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-30
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T07:21:58Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 11
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4111
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: CRO & CDMO Services, APIs & Drug Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 679681
- **Name**: Lonza
- **Domain**: lonza.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/lonza>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 70
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.6
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 41
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 93000
- **Max**: 155000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 155000

## Technologies

- **Bioreactors** — Optional: no
- **FMEA** — Optional: no
- **GMP** — Optional: no
- **Microsoft Office** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 11

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-30T16:17:04Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: green card filings: 3; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 11
- **Expected fill days**: 41
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 155000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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