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Associate Director, Process Technology

CSL Behring · Kankakee, IL · $177,000–$209,000 a year · Full time

Posted Sep 22, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Tell me about a capacity expansion project you led. What drove throughput, and how did you know you'd hit the target?

What they are checking: Whether they connect engineering work to the production demand that justified the project.

Your team includes experienced engineers and managers. Tell me about a time you developed a manager on your team.

What they are checking: Whether they can lead leaders rather than only direct individual engineers.

Tell me about a time a project you led hit a quality or validation problem late. How did you handle it?

What they are checking: Whether they surface problems honestly and fix them properly instead of pushing them past qualification.

What would you do

You coordinate internal and external engineering resources across CAPEX and OPEX projects. How do you decide what goes to contractors and what stays in-house?

What they are checking: Whether they protect critical knowledge internally while using outside help efficiently.

A project is behind schedule and the team proposes skipping part of the commissioning to recover time. What do you do?

What they are checking: Whether they hold firm on compliance steps while still finding real ways to recover schedule.

How do you work with process technology leads at other sites when a design decision at your site affects them?

What they are checking: Whether they think about network-wide consistency and share learning across sites.

How do you report project status to the Senior Director of Project Delivery when things are not going well?

What they are checking: Whether they deliver bad news early and with a plan rather than hiding risk until it is too late.

About the work

Walk me through how you'd take a new piece of process equipment from scope through procurement, construction and qualification.

What they are checking: Whether they know the full project life cycle and where projects usually go wrong in a cGMP plant.

How do you build a process automation strategy for a project so that instrumentation and alarms align with Quality by Design?

What they are checking: Whether they understand how automation choices support product quality and not just equipment control.

What do you see as the main engineering challenges in plasma fractionation or protein purification equipment?

What they are checking: Whether they understand the specific process risks of plasma-derived biologics manufacturing.

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The full job description

As published by CSL Behring.

The Process Technology Lead is accountable for leading the Process Engineering Process Technology site team. This team is responsible for executing site Process Engineering projects, and for coordinating internal and external Process Engineering resource support for all site CAPEX and OPEX projects. The Process Technology team is responsible for all Process Engineering elements required to scope, develop, procure, construct, and qualify new equipment and facilities required to meet facility production throughput demands. This role manages a small to mid-sized team which may consist of both experienced professionals and managers. S(he) works closely with the Process Technology Leads at other sites. S/He coordinates routinely with Senior Director, Project Delivery and Director, Global Plasma Technology Ownership. This position reports into Site Head of Process Engineering Project Responsibilities: • Leads multi-disciplinary project teams through life cycle activities to deliver capacity expansion capabilities to meet global and local strategic requirements. • Develops Process Automation Strategy for project activities. Works closely with Execution Systems team to ensure that project instrumentation, automation, and alarm strategies align with industry standards and with product Quality by Design approach. • Responsible for providing cGMP compliant processes and facilities suitable for FDA and global regulatory approval. • Ensures that initiatives are aligned with the business objectives and strategic philosophy. • Oversees project teams responsible for completion of project lifecycle activities through turnover to routine commercial production. • Oversees generation of regular project reports (financial updates, project schedules, risks and summary of current activities) for senior site management and Global Steering Committees. 2 Leadership Responsibilities: Leadership Responsibilities: • Directly oversees technical staff supporting a wide range of CAPEX and OPEX project responsibilities. • Responsible for assessing the Process Technology project workload against the available resource pool and supplementing with contract resources. Manages and directs all contract resources in support of project activities. • Responsible for mentoring and development of staff, including motivating in a manner that promotes the achievement of CSL’s business goals and objectives. • Responsible for assessing the skillset of Process Technology team and bridging any gaps that are needed to support site project portfolio. • Establishes performance goals and strategic/operational objectives for team. • Coaches, counsels, and appraises performance of personnel. • Develops staff competencies & capabilities to enable business continuity, sustained success, and career development. • Promotes high employee engagement and a positive work environment. • Responsible for organizational design, resource requirements and staffing decisions. • Recruits, retains, trains, and develops the team. • Capable of influencing site and global leadership. • Able to manage partnerships both internally and externally. Position Qualifications and Experience Requirements: Education: • Undergraduate degree in Engineering/Science required. • Advanced degree in Engineering/Science or MBA preferred. Experience Required: • 8+ years working in Process Engineering in Pharmaceutical, Chemical Manufacturing or similar industry. • Demonstrated experience in process improvement development & execution. • Strong communication and conflict management skills to influence project professionals and stakeholders, including non‐specialists, at all levels in the organization. • Demonstrated experience in managing, organizing, developing and deploying best practice frameworks, processes, tools and templates in an Operations context, in alignment with Enterprise standards. • 5 years or more experience working within a global matrix organization • Involvement in cross-functional, multicultural and international teams. Other Essential Knowledge • Ability to work across a range of countries and cultures. Customer Orientation (Internal/External): • Creates strategies to stay ahead of industry-related changes. Drives alignment across the enterprise in order to serve customer needs. Spends time internally and externally with customers and stakeholders and genuinely seeks to understand their needs. Enterprise Results and Value Orientation: • Looks for outcomes that maximize the benefits for the enterprise, not just their department or function. Pursues value realization for the enterprise even if their function does not benefit. Collaboration and Influencing: • Champions a culture of inclusiveness and teamwork. • Collaborates effectively with others and influences all stakeholders towards enterprise outcomes. Embraces conversations needed to deliver enterprise value. Strategic/Innovative: • Global perspective. Takes a broad view when approaching issues. Sees ahead to future possibilities & translates to breakthrough strategies. Collaborates to influence strategies of others and adapts own strategy towards enterprise value. Change Management: • Mobilizes others to initiate change; builds group momentum for change; embeds culture of change. Aligns change to enterprise strategies and direction. Interpersonal Savvy: • Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably. The expected base salary range for this position at hiring is $177,000- $209,000. Please note this salary range reflects the minimum and maximum base pay that CSL expects to pay for this position at the listed location as of the time of this posting. Individual base salary for a successful candidate is determined by qualifications, skill level, experience, competencies and other relevant factors. In addition to base salary, total compensation for this role may also include incentive compensation and equity. About CSL Behring CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients’ needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives. CSL Behring operates one of the world’s largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries. To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/ . Our Benefits For more information on CSL benefits visit How CSL Supports Your Well-being | CSL . You Belong at CSL At CSL, Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future. To learn more about inclusion and belonging visit https://www.csl.com/careers/inclusion-and-belonging Equal Opportunity Employer CSL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit https://www.csl.com/accessibility-statement .

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