UCB Posted August 9, 2026

埼玉:Production Engineering Group Lead

Saitama, Saitama, Japan OTHER
Manufacturing & CMC

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About this opportunity

Make your mark for patients

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Job Summary

Head of Production Engineering group leads and manages the group to provide technical services for the projects and engineering tasks, related to dosage form production and Packaging. She/he is responsible to realize Saitama site strategy as a member of site leadership team. She/he is also responsible to grow Saitama members.

Major Accountabilities/Responsibilities

•    Translate the strategy, goals of Saitama site and Technical Service department into the group strategy and targets. Lead and manage the group to achieve the targets and realize the strategy.

•    Control and manage the resource and capability to deliver the projects, related to the production engineering.

•    Control and manage the OPEX, CAPEX and Head Count budget to meet the goal.

•    Responsible to contribute for saving target.

•    Lead and/or manage Dosage Form & Packaging projects.

•    Responsible for the group to achieve following responsibilities.

-    Mange and lead Dosage Form & Packaging projects and technical transfer of new products.

-    Manage and lead the engineering work for Dosage Form & Packaging lines.

-    Manage and lead the maintenance, calibration, and renewal work for Dosage Form & Packaging lines.

-    Manage and lead repairment work for Dosage Form & Packaging lines.

-    Manage and lead GxP and relevant raw execution for the Dosage Form & Packaging related matters.

-    Manage and lead to Improve the Dosage Form & Packaging processes and equipment for a better efficiency and HSE.

-    Manage and lead the packaging material development and design.

-    Manage and lead artwork development.

•    Grow next technical leaders and grow the group in leadership and technical skills.

•    Responsible for the Saitama site strategy and KPIs comprehensively as a member of Saitama Leadership team.

•    Build connection in UCB widely in both local and global for stakeholder management.

•    Build good relationship with the suppliers in the market widely and manage and control them.

•    Update the technical capability of the group according to the progress in technology.

Education & Qualifications 

Bachelor's Degree

Technical development or Engineering experience for 5years in Pharma industry. And team management experience 3 years.

Competencies

Skill to build strategy and to breakdown the strategy into actions.

Professional skills to manage & lead people and teams.

Leadership to coach, motivate and energize people.

Have a strong Passion for achievements.

Have an established unique leadership (Authentic Leadership) style to lead the team to achieve goals.

Strong growth mindset to develop herself / himself and the team.

Strong communication skill in both Japanese and English which is enough efficient for stakeholder management.

Professional knowledge of GMP and relevant laws, especially for the process development and engineering area.

Have professional knowledge of production equipment, process, and basic knowledge of an analytical method transfer to execute Technical Transfer. And have a top-level knowledge in the industry for at least one of the areas of them.

Business level skill in statistics.

Professional knowledge in the packaging development area of pharma industry.

Basic knowledge in the artwork management of pharma industry

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求人ID:93654

採用担当者:Teppei Horiguchi

採用マネージャー:Hisakazu Ohno

タレントパートナー:Kenya Akaishi

職位レベル:MM II

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Job details

Seniority
Not listed
Function
Manufacturing & CMC
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Saitama, Saitama, Japan
Employment type
OTHER

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Manufacturing & CMC role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 1527 comparable Manufacturing & CMC roles across 125 biopharma companies.

1527Comparable roles tracked
1434Currently active
125Companies hiring similar roles
44Countries represented

Salary context

456 of 1527 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function. This posting doesn't list a seniority level, so peers aren't narrowed by seniority either -- the range below may span more levels than usual.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Lowest disclosed · Senior Scientist II – CMC Developmental Sciences · AbbVie $0/hr – $0/hr (≈ $0–$0/yr)
Peer group range $0 – $540,400 (median $140,000)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 1527 comparable roles

United States782
India104
Germany74
Singapore67
France64
Ireland54

+ 38 more countries

Seniority mix

705 of 1527 peers have a known seniority level

Senior251
Manager165
Principal79
Associate68
Director64
Associate Director44
Senior Director21
Intern/Fellow/Postdoc8
Executive/VP5

Therapeutic area mix

7 of 1527 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Vaccines & Infectious Disease6
Oncology1

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