# Validation Engineer (Contractor)

Focus Areas: Equipment Validation & Cleaning Validation Position Summary We are seeking an experienced Validation Engineer (Contractor) to support the Validation Engineering team at the Oceanside manufacturing facility. In this role, you will be responsible for authoring, executing, and summarizing equipment qualification and cleaning validation activities supporting both commercial stainless steel and single-use manufacturing facilities. The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience with GMP manufacturing equipment, Clean-in-Place (CIP)/Steam-in-Place (SIP) systems, and strong verbal and written communication skills. Key Responsibilities Protocol Authoring & Execution * Author, review, and execute qualification protocols (IQ, OQ, PQ) for systems and equipment. * Develop and execute Cleaning Validation (CV) and cleaning verification protocols, including sampling plans, visual inspections, and analytical test data coordination (e.g., TOC, conductivity, bioburden, and endotoxin). * Evaluate validation test results against defined acceptance criteria, resolve execution discrepancies via structured troubleshooting, and author protocol exceptions with cross-functional stakeholders. * S

- **Id**: 4051445
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/planet-pharma-validation-engineer-contractor>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Oceanside, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T12:40:34Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2199
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Laboratory Equipment

## Company

- **Id**: 4467183
- **Name**: Planet Pharma
- **Domain**: planet-pharma.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/planet-pharma>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Schema

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 12
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 5
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 70
- **Max**: 81
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: hour
- **Usd annual**: 162000

## Technologies

- **Bioreactors** — Optional: no
- **Chromatography** — Optional: no
- **GMP** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T01:52:34Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 3; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 36
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.361
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 5
- **Reasons**: conf:3, agency, stale_co, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 162000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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