Plant Packaging Engineer
Date Posted
5/16/23
Location
Bethlehem, PA
Position Id
1998
Degree Required
Job Type
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