Validation Engineer

Position: Validation

Location: Labman HQ, Stokesley, North Yorkshire

(This is not a remote or hybrid role)

Salary: From £35,000 - £45,000 per year

Employment Type: Full-time

We’re looking for a Validation Engineer to join our growing team at Labman Automation. In this role, you’ll take ownership of validation activities for cutting-edge automated systems used in regulated environments. You’ll play a key part in ensuring our systems meet GxP, GMP, and regulatory standards, supporting successful Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), Site Acceptance Testing (SAT), and customer validation.

What You'll Do:

• Develop and execute risk-based validation strategies aligned with GAMP principles
• Create and maintain key validation documentation (URS, validation plans, protocols, reports)
  
• Lead and support validation during FAT, SAT, and site commissioning
  
• Ensure full requirements traceability from specification through to validation evidence
  
• Support change control, impact assessments, and revalidation activities
  
• Partner with software, electrical, and mechanical engineers to embed validation early in design
  
• Review system designs from a compliance and validation perspective
  
• Support customers with validation expectations, documentation, and audit readiness
  
• Contribute to project planning, including validation effort estimates and risk identification
  
• Improve validation processes, templates, and best practices
  
• Participate in internal audits, customer audits, and regulatory inspections
  
• Promote Good Documentation Practice (GDP) and data integrity (ALCOA) principles
  
• Mentor engineers in validation and testing approaches

What You'll Need:

• Experience in validation, quality, or regulated engineering environments (GMP, GxP, or similar)
  
• Strong understanding of:
  • FAT / SAT
    
  • IQ / OQ / PQ
    
• Proven ability to produce clear, structured technical documentation
• Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills
  
• Strong communication skills with cross-functional teams and customers
  
• Risk-based validation
• Requirements traceability

Non Essentials

• Experience validating automated systems, lab equipment, or software-controlled machinery
• Familiarity with GAMP 5, ALCOA principles, and 21 CFR Part 11
• Experience supporting FAT/SAT and leveraging FAT for validation
• Exposure to software validation, control systems, or industrial automation

Company Benefits:

• 33 day's annual holiday (rising to 38 over 5 years) inc. public holidays
• Company profit share scheme
• 5% employer pension paid on full salary
• Travel opportunities in various roles
• Enhanced maternity pay (long service applicable)
• Pool tables, football team, Sim racing
• Free inhouse gym, squash, bouldering wall, and countless clubs

Labman Values:

In it together – We’re a team; a community of mutual support

Excellence – Working and delivering at the very highest quality

Humility – Respecting yourself and others

Sustainability – Recognition that we have an impact on our planet, our company and our community

Fun – Enjoyment in your work