Staff Validation Engineer - Concord

About the Role

Start your engineering career in a role where your work directly impacts life-saving products. At Performance Validation, you'll work in FDA-regulated facilities such as pharmaceutical plants, medical device manufacturers, and biotech labs, ensuring systems and processes function as intended. This hands-on, technically demanding role is ideal for sharp, curious engineers ready to grow fast. We hire engineers straight out of college and invest heavily in their development.

About Us

Performance Validation is a 100% employee-owned consulting firm with over 30 years of experience providing Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) services to the life sciences industry. Our engineers work on-site with pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device clients across the U.S. and internationally, helping them meet rigorous FDA and industry standards. We have teams in Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Kansas, Washington, Wisconsin, and North Carolina.

Responsibilities

• Travel to client facilities and perform hands-on qualification and verification activities, including Installation, Operational, and Performance Qualifications (IQ/OQ/PQ).
• Develop technical documentation including User Requirements, Risk Assessments, Test Protocols, and Summary Reports under the guidance of senior engineers.
• Learn to apply FDA regulations (including 21 CFR Parts 11, 210/211, and 820) and cGMP principles to real-world client systems and processes.
• Perform system walk-downs in manufacturing environments; this is field work, and may involve stairs, ladders, confined spaces, and moderate lifting.
• Support identification and resolution of test failures and non-conformances.
• Build expertise in a technical discipline such as thermal mapping, computer systems validation, or process validation, depending on your interests and the needs of your team.

This role involves travel to client sites, typically several days per month, with more intensive travel during active project phases.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Life Sciences, or a related technical field (or equivalent nuclear navy military training).
• Genuine curiosity and a drive to understand how things work.
• High attention to detail; documentation errors have real consequences in this industry.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; you'll interact with client engineers, quality managers, and site personnel from day one.
• Professionalism and dependability; consulting means representing PV on client sites.
• Willingness and enthusiasm to travel; could be 30-50% depending on clients' needs.
• Comfort working independently once trained, and the judgment to ask for help when needed.

Preferred engineering disciplines include Biomedical, Chemical, and Mechanical Engineering, though we've built great careers with graduates from a wide range of technical backgrounds.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary.
• Biannual profit sharing; you share directly in the company's success.
• Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP); you build equity in the company over time, at no cost to you.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Disability and life insurance.
• Paid vacation and holidays.
• Cellphone stipend.

Development Opportunities

• Structured mentorship from senior engineers on every project team.
• Internal and external training programs, including industry certifications.
• A clear path to advancement through our defined career levels.
• Exposure to diverse industries, clients, and technical disciplines across our national footprint.

Why Join Us

We're a mid-sized firm with a long track record and a genuine culture of ownership. Our engineers aren't siloed into one product or facility—you'll see the inside of facilities most engineers never encounter, build expertise valued across the life sciences industry, and do it alongside people who have chosen to build their careers here. Consulting requires give and take, and we work hard to make it worth your while.

Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Performance Validation does not anticipate providing visa sponsorship for this position.