Packaging Engineer

Responsibilities

• Addressing regulatory requirements related to packaging medical devices.
• Ensuring compliance with applicable policies and procedures.
• Planning and conducting small- to medium-size assigned packaging engineering projects, which may include developing packaging designs, assessing supplier changes or capabilities, packaging equipment interface, testing protocols, and supporting investigations.
• Supporting and coordinating with cross-functional teams to align development and implementation strategies for packaging changes or solutions.
• Independently executing the design of packaging solutions by applying standard engineering theories, concepts, and techniques within the discipline.
• Independently investigating, conducting tests or experiments, and improving methods/designs/processes.
• Recognizing and implementing good ideas/innovations/cost reductions; consistently generating/adopting original solutions to problems and reducing them to practice.
• Creating and implementing package component specifications and technical documentation.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, science, or a closely related discipline, or equivalent technical experience plus demonstrated competence, with a desired 2+ years of significant engineering and/or operational experience.
• Additional post-graduate education may contribute towards the desired years of experience.
• Demonstrated competency within an engineering discipline, with packaging engineering preferred.
• Possesses a working technical knowledge and application of concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Ability to work on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors including root cause analysis and design requirement development.
• Demonstrates judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Interacts well with diverse groups within engineering and maintains strong working relationships with internal and external collaborators.
• Listens to and understands others' points of view and articulates tactfully and respectfully one's own perspective orally, in writing, and in presentations.
• Works well with other engineers in a collaborative, fast-paced goal-driven environment.
• Possesses interpersonal skills to negotiate and reconcile differences.
• Has a technical background in health care, medical devices, pharmaceutical, biologics, or similar industries (preferred).