Karen Yuen

Project Management Leader, Senior Project Manager

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Location

Vaughan, ON, Canada

Areas of Expertise

Pharmaceutical, Biologics
Karen is currently a Senior Project Manager who brings value to Cheme’s life science customers. She has over 20 years of experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing in both solid and sterile liquid dosage. Karen has managed large capital projects and smaller process improvement initiatives in this space. She has the unique opportunity to perform as both an end user and as a SME contractor consultant. Her past projects have included facilities modification, HVAC, equipment specification to installation, quality and compliance.

Karen has a degree in Chemical eEngineering from University of Waterloo and carries a PMP and P.Eng designation.
“Cheme is not just another engineering company. Clients find our team of professionals to have a depth of knowledge and commitment to the task not found elsewhere. ”

Recent Success

Quality Assurance Lab Scale Up & Relocation

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Large Scale HTST Automation

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Laboratory Conceptual Design for Asparagus Breeding

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Snack Packaging Expansion Project

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Compressed Air Upgrade Feasibility

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Vaccine Manufacturing Process Upgrades Project

We partnered with our client in the biotechnology industry to design, optimize, implement, and validate their existing biologic manufacturing process.

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Pet Food Fats and Oils Continuous Mixing System

An award-winning, independent pet food maker needed our help designing a custom system to create dog and cat food from fresh regional ingredients.

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Major Component Replacement Project

Cheme was engaged to design and commission equipment to support a Major Component Replacement (MCR) project at one of the largest electricity suppliers in Ontario.

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Beverage Quality Assurance Lab Project

Our client needed to relocate a high throughput beverage quality assurance laboratory to a high-rise building location without disrupting business continuity. Learn how Cheme helped.

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In Line Oil Winterization and Evaporation Production Suite Project

A pharmaceutical-grade botanicals oil producer approached Cheme to scale-up, design and optimize an existing multi-step extraction and winterization process.

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OSD Facility Expansion Project

A Canadian pharmaceutical client needed to expand manufacturing capabilities for oral solid dose production. Here’s how Cheme support our client’s execution of the manufacturing expansion.

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Sterile Compounding Optimization Project

Our client in the biotechnology industry required optimization of an antiquated sterile manufacturing process that is critical to vaccine formulation.

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