Senior Engineer, MES

At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, “Who are you working for?”—a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits.

This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. Bristol Myers Squibb Netherlands Bristol Myers Squibb has been active in the Dutch market for over 50 years, employing people across a range of activities and business units in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The Netherlands is also home to our first European Cell Therapy facility, located at the Leiden Bio Science Park, the largest life sciences cluster of The Netherlands.

This new state of the art facility is focused on commercial manufacturing with capabilities for multi-product Cell Therapy manufacturing. You can become part of this exciting journey. Check out this video if you want to know more about it! The Netherlands has everything it takes to become the medicines hub of Europe, the so-called Boston by the North Sea. As we continue to expand our footprint by building this new site, we are looking to grow our team.

Would you like to become an important chain in our worldwide network to bring this new personalized treatment to patients suffering from blood cancer? Join us and be a game changer! For more information about Bristol Myers Squibb Netherlands, visit us at bms.com/nl or careers.bms.com/nl Position Summary The MES Tech Lead (Recipe Authoring) is a senior technical individual contributor role with a primary focus on MES electronic batch record (EBR) recipe authoring and logic design in support of GMP Cell Therapy manufacturing operations.

The role is responsible for the technical design, configuration, and lifecycle management of MES recipes, ensuring they accurately reflect manufacturing processes, Quality expectations, and MSAT intent. This position provides hands-on technical leadership in recipe authoring, complex MES logic, and configuration standards. It does not include people management responsibilities and instead focuses on deep technical expertise, solution ownership, and cross-functional collaboration.

Duties/Responsibilities: Recipe Authoring & MES Logic Ownership Act as the technical lead for MES recipe authoring, including EBR workflow design, parameterization, equipment interactions, and exception handling. Lead the design and implementation of complex, high-risk, or non-standard recipes in collaboration with MSAT and Manufacturing. Ensure accurate translation of process descriptions, batch records, and control strategies into MES recipe logic.

Define and maintain recipe authoring standards, patterns, and best practices. Technical Review & Governance Review and provide technical approval for recipe designs, configurations, and changes developed by Recipe Authors. Ensure consistency, reusability, and compliance across all MES recipes. Support recipe versioning, change control, and migration activities across DEV/TEST/PROD environments.

Quality, Compliance & Validation Ensure all recipe authoring activities comply with GMP, data integrity principles, 21 CFR Part 11, and internal procedures. Provide technical input to validation strategies, risk assessments, and testing activities (IQ/OQ/UAT) related to recipes. Review validation documentation for recipe-related deliverables to ensure technical accuracy and audit readiness.

Act as an MES recipe SME during deviations, investigations, CAPAs, and inspections. Incident Management & Troubleshooting Serve as L3 technical escalation point for recipe-related MES issues impacting manufacturing. Perform advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis of recipe logic and execution issues. Define and implemen