Biopharma Process Engineering

Nearly 30 years of bioprocess expertise—now working for your project.

Serving biotech startups, established pharma, and CMOs across the biopharma value chain—from facility design and startup to technology transfer and process troubleshooting.

Available for remote & on-site engagements

Three decades across industry leaders

Services

Technical leadership across the biopharma value chain

Facility & Equipment Design

With nearly 30 years of experience across all aspects of drug substance manufacturing, Steve Granger can help with anything from minor facility upgrades to full-scale renovations of manufacturing suites.

Facility Startup

Starting up a new facility represents a whole new level of technical and schedule challenge. Help mitigate your timeline risks by bringing in someone that's actually been there and done that — multiple times!

Process Troubleshooting

Steve Granger specializes in getting facilities "un-stuck" and back into service. When you have process technical problems, rely on Steve's experience to get those root causes identified and addressed.

Technology Transfer

Looking to move your drug substance manufacturing process to a CMO? You'll need someone on your team with strong technical and team leadership experience. Steve Granger has done this before, including with a fast-track COVID antibody program!

Technical Project Management

Don't know where to start with your technical challenge? Simply turn to the technical leader that other Fortune 500 biopharma companies have regularly relied on to get things done.

Selected Work

A track record of complex projects delivered

A selection of past engagements from Steve's career. Select any project to read the detail.

Career History

Nearly 30 years of process engineering across industries

DSM site

1997 – 2003

DSM Chemicals North America

Augusta, GA

Design & manufacturing support engineer at a nylon-6 intermediate manufacturing facility.

Bristol-Myers Squibb site

2003 – 2007

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Syracuse, NY

Senior design & manufacturing support leadership roles for a small-scale biologics DS facility.

Abbott Worcester site

2007 – 2015

Abbott / AbbVie Bioresearch & Manufacturing Center

Worcester, MA

Principal design, construction & manufacturing support engineer for a multi-product biologics DS facility. Received multiple corporate awards following leadership of high-visibility projects.

AstraZeneca Gaithersburg site

2015 – 2021

AstraZeneca Global Operations

Frederick / Gaithersburg, MD

Led global manufacturing engineering and technical support efforts to a worldwide network of internal and external biopharmaceutical DS / DP manufacturing sites. Acted as direct manager to a small workgroup and as a matrix leader & internal consultant to multiple technical teams.

Coffee cup and laptop on a desk

2021 – present

Independent Consultant

Providing part-time engineering consulting support for process engineering clients — while also being a good husband and dad :-)

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Steve Granger

Steve Granger

Owner & Lead Engineer

Meet Steve

A proven technical leader who has actually been there.

Proven, detail-oriented technical leader with nearly 30 years of domestic & international experience across operations, manufacturing, engineering, and other technical biopharmaceutical leadership roles. Over 10 years of experience with both direct and matrix-based leadership of operations, engineering and scientific support teams, as both a site-based and corporate resource.

Facility Design & Startup Technology Transfer Process Troubleshooting Fortune 500 experience

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