Sectors
Pharmaceutical resourcing for GMP facilities and capital projects.
Validation, quality and automation people for GMP manufacturing, biologics and capital projects — where a facility isn't finished when it's built, it's finished when it's qualified.
Market context
What’s driving demand in Pharma
Pharmaceutical capital projects have a second half that other sectors don't. Construction hands over to commissioning, qualification and validation, and a facility only starts earning when it is qualified — which makes CQV engineers the genuine critical path on most GMP builds, and the discipline clients most often under-resource.
The revised Annex 1 has raised the bar on sterile manufacturing. Contamination control strategies, expanded environmental monitoring and closer scrutiny of aseptic process design have increased demand for quality and validation people who have actually worked to the new expectations rather than read about them.
Geographically, demand clusters around the established sites in Cheshire, Ireland, Scotland and the Cambridge–Oxford corridor, with advanced therapies and biologics adding facilities that need skills the UK has limited depth in. Cross-sector competition is real: a good automation engineer is equally wanted by food, chemical and data centre employers.
- Annex 1
- Revised EU GMP annex for sterile products, now a standing requirement on aseptic project resourcing
- IQ/OQ/PQ
- The qualification lifecycle that determines when a GMP facility can actually begin manufacturing
- GAMP 5
- The industry guide underpinning computerised system validation and data integrity expectations
Sector context only — publicly stated policy targets, regulatory regimes and industry cycles. These are not NE Project Solutions performance figures.
Disciplines
Roles we typically place
A representative sample rather than a limit — if the discipline sits inside a pharma scope, we can usually resource it.
- CQV / Validation Engineer
- GMP Quality Assurance Specialist
- Automation Engineer (GAMP 5)
- Computer Systems Validation Specialist
- Process Engineer (API / biologics)
- Cleanroom Project Manager
- Clean Utilities Engineer (WFI, clean steam)
- Technical Transfer Manager
Tickets & compliance
What has to be in place before day one
We verify certification, clearance and right-to-work status before a candidate reaches your shortlist — and track expiry dates so a lapsed ticket never stops a shift.
EU GMP & MHRA
Good Manufacturing Practice experience and familiarity with MHRA inspection expectations.
Annex 1
Working knowledge of the revised sterile manufacturing requirements and contamination control strategy.
GAMP 5 & 21 CFR Part 11
Computerised system validation and data integrity competence for automation and CSV roles.
ISO 14644
Cleanroom classification, qualification and monitoring for facility and validation work.
IQ / OQ / PQ
Documented qualification lifecycle experience, with protocol authorship and execution evidence.
Site & construction cards
CSCS, SMSTS and SSSTS where the role sits on a live capital project rather than in operations.
How we help
Three ways we support Pharma programmes
Workforce Solutions
Validation, quality and automation staff with documented GMP experience — including the Annex 1 exposure sterile projects now expect.
Workforce Solutions for PharmaManaged Project Services
Managed CQV teams for a facility or suite, covering protocol authorship, execution and turnover packages as a defined scope.
Managed Project Services for PharmaConsultancy Services
Resource planning across the construction-to-qualification transition, where projects most often discover their validation team is a year too late.
Consultancy Services for PharmaOther sectors we work in
The same disciplines and tickets travel further than people expect — many of our contractors move between these markets.
Ready when you are
Resourcing a pharma project?
Tell us the scope, the tickets and the window. We’ll come back with people who can actually mobilise to it.