Plant Packaging Engineer

Job Description

This role exists to provide technical improvements, oversite, troubleshooting, support, and project leadership in the Plant Drug Product Packaging area.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides packaging engineering, packaging equipment and packaging component expertise to improve costs, efficiencies, and meets production targets
• Serves as the subject matter expert (SME) for serialization for the packaging line by creating recipes, testing and validating global serialization programs
• Partners with Operations Excellence to implement various lean improvement techniques to improve the OEE
• Helps trouble-shoot equipment and processes as well as improvement projects
• Proposes, designs and manages various Packaging capex projects
• Leads individual and team efforts for quality investigational events using a lean methodology (cause and effect diagrams, SIPOC, 5Y's etc.) to reduce quality defects produced on the packaging line
• Initiates, writes and executes Dis and validation protocols following applicable cGMP and SOPs
• Reviews and approves packaging material and component specifications
• Develops and implements operator training
• Builds and manages customer recipes within the Optel Sandbox and Production environment to meet Global serialization markets
• Suggests upgrades to line level Optel systems to increase packaging output efficiencies
• Writes and executes packaging studies, validation protocols, SOPs and training plans
• Initiates projects that will increase packaging output (bottles) on packaging line and improvement to processes
• Other duties as required

Education/Experience

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Formal Lean / Six Sigma training desirable; PMP certificate desirable.
• Minimum five years working in a Packaging operation in a Life Sciences company
• Working knowledge of fill packaging and serialization equipment