Digital Technology Lead Industrial Engineering

Make your mark for patients

We are looking for a Digital Technology Lead Industrial Engineering with a strong IT mindset, excellent stakeholder management skills, and a passion for secure, reliable, and scalable digital solutions. This role sits within UCB's Digital Technology (DT) organization and supports multiple manufacturing sites, primarily in Braine‑l'Alleud (Belgium) and Bulle (Switzerland).

About the role

You will be responsible for the integration, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement of digital and IT platforms that underpin biotech and pharmaceutical manufacturing. Beyond ensuring reliability and compliance, you will play a key role in the design and delivery of innovative digital solutions that enable UCB's Patient Supply Digital Business Transformation program. In this context, you will drive the evolution of our industrial digital ecosystem - from MES and DCS integrations to engineering applications, data pipelines, and IT/OT connectivity - ensuring that every solution is scalable, secure, compliant, and aligned with enterprise IT architecture standards. Your work will accelerate how manufacturing and engineering teams adopt new digital capabilities, enhance operational intelligence, streamline workflows, and strengthen end‑to‑end visibility across UCB Patient Supply domains.

Who you'll work with

You will act as the single Digital Technology point of contact for Manufacturing and Engineering.
This means working closely with:

• Manufacturing & biotech operations teams
• Engineering & automation stakeholders
• SAP/ERP, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and QA IT teams
• External partners providing IT platform support

Your role is to translate business and engineering needs into digital roadmaps, ensuring that IT solutions remain aligned to UCB's strategic objectives, IT governance frameworks, and cybersecurity requirements.

What you will do

• Lead and govern IT/DT platforms supporting control systems and engineering digital tools (DCS integrations, asset management systems, historian platforms, data flows, etc.)
• Collaborate with engineering and automation teams to ensure proper IT integration of control systems - without acting as the automation designer
• Own the delivery of digital initiatives, expanding capabilities to new manufacturing lines as UCB scales
• Ensure operational reliability, system resilience, and proactive performance monitoring of digital platforms
• Identify and mitigate digital risks, including cybersecurity, obsolescence, data integrity, and infrastructure vulnerabilities
• Ensure full alignment with GMP IT compliance, CSV, GAMP, data‑integrity, and industry standard IT

Interested? For this role we're looking for the following education, experience and skills

• Master's degree in Engineering, IT, Computer Science, or a related field
• 5+ years of IT project or IT system ownership experience in a GMP manufacturing environment
• Strong understanding of DCS, MES, and industrial digital ecosystems, from an IT integration and lifecycle‑management perspective
• Experience with IT/OT convergence, cybersecurity, system validation, and platform governance
• Solid knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing processes and IT's role in supporting them
• Strong problem‑solving and ability to operate in a dynamic, cross‑functional environment
• Fluency in English; good working knowledge of French

About us 
UCB is a global biopharmaceutical company, focusing on neurology and immunology. We are around 8,500 people in all four corners of the globe, inspired by patients and driven by science. 

Why work with us? 
At UCB, we don't just complete tasks, we create value. We aren't afraid to push forward, collaborate, and innovate to make our mark for patients. We have a caring, supportive culture where everyone feels included, respected, and has equal opportunities to do their best work. We 'go beyond' to create value for our patients, and always with a human focus, whether that's on our patients, our employees, or our planet. Working for us, you will discover a place where you can grow, and have the freedom to carve your own career path to achieve your full potential. 

UCB is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions will be made without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable laws.
 
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