Packaging Engineer (Must Have EUMDR, Design Control)

Location: Franklin Lakes, NJ or Vernon Hills, IL or Salt Lake City, UT | Duration: 6 months | Hours: 40/week | Pay rate: $30–40/hr | Employment type: W2 contract (US citizens or Green Card holders only)

About the role

As part of a global Packaging COE (R&D) team, you will develop, verify, and validate packaging designs for medical devices or pharmaceutical products at one of the following client sites: Franklin Lakes, New Jersey; Vernon Hills, Illinois; or Salt Lake City, Utah.

Responsibilities

• Apply packaging engineering principles and design-control processes to create, prototype, and qualify new packaging concepts with moderate guidance.
• Evaluate and improve existing packaging concepts with moderate guidance.
• Identify, analyze, and specify standard packaging materials and equipment.
• Support external resources and contractors as needed.
• Communicate technical knowledge effectively and validate understanding of packaging test methods, standards, and related equipment.
• Develop medical-device packaging systems for both flexible and rigid applications.
• Perform packaging-system verification and validation.
• Use CAD tools for packaging design and apply statistics and design-of-experiments methodologies.
• Adhere to client Quality and Corporate Policies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Packaging, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in medical-device packaging.
• Working knowledge of packaging engineering principles, legal requirements, and design-control documentation.
• Experience with ISO 11607, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, and EU Medical Device Regulation (EUMDR).

Skills

• Medical-device packaging development for flexible and rigid applications.
• Packaging verification and validation.
• CAD tools for packaging design.
• Statistics and design of experiments.