Interested in a career that matters?

Interested in a career that matters?

Join Novonesis as a CAPEX User Lead – Fermentation and play a key role in delivering fermentation-related investments that support future production capacity, innovation, and operational excellence. As part of the User Management team Patexpansion in Mumbai, you will work across disciplines to ensure fermentation projects are successfully designed, commissioned, and transitioned into operations.

The role & your impact

This is a senior technical role focused on medium and complex CAPEX projects related to fermentation processes and equipment. You will represent the user organization throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring investments meet business, operational, quality, safety, reliability, and performance requirements while also supporting future technology and capacity development.

Your Key Responsibilities In This Role

• Lead fermentation-related user activities from project definition through commissioning and operational handover.
• Develop, maintain, and approve user requirements,



installation requirements, design criteria, and acceptance requirements.
• Review process concepts, layouts, PFDs, P&IDs;, equipment specifications, automation functions, and operating concepts.
• Coordinate cross-functional inputs from Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Process Development, Quality, EHS, and Automation teams.
• Participate in risk assessments, HAZOPs, FAT, SAT, commissioning, startup, and operational readiness activities.
• Support technology planning, technical development initiatives, and evaluation of future fermentation technologies.

What You'll Need To Be Successful In This Role

• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, Biotechnology, Process Engineering, or a related discipline.
• More than 10 years of relevant technical experience, including significant fermentation or upstream bioprocessing experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in production,

📌 CAPEX User Lead – Fermentation (Mumbai)
🏢 Novonesis
📍 Mumbai