Sr. Packaging Engineer Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Sr. Packaging Engineer to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure personal understanding of all quality policy/company system items that are per training curriculums;
- Mentor lower-level packaging engineers;
- Manage qualification of new packages or changes to ensure quality and mitigate risk;
- Assemble and report department metrics. Lead monthly project reviews meetings;
- Apply knowledge of FDA and ISO requirements related to packaging, ensuring robust package verification and approval;
- Identify new packaging suppliers and CMOs as needed. Justify, arrange qualification, and participate in compliance audits as required;
- Present packaging project statuses at project and department meetings;
- Awareness of future trends, process improvements, and new technologies. Communicate and introduce as applicable;
- Create and approve technical artwork specifications;
- Team leader for technical packaging projects on cross-functional project teams;
- Will be a member of multidisciplinary project teams and be called on to lead teams for tasks that are focused on packaging issues;
- Lead on-site implementation of changes and packaging-related launch activities at CMOs;
- Evaluate new packaging process or packaging to increase productivity and/or reduce costs without sacrificing quality;
- Oversee evaluation and development of new packaging materials and processes;
- Initiate and follow up on assembly build instructions for all engineering builds in U.S. and Asia.
Requirements:
- Process development or technology transfer experience preferred;
- Superior communication and presentation skills;
- Working knowledge of packaging manufacturing processes;
- Demonstrated strong analytical skills and judgment;
- Proficient in MS Office: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, CAPE or TOPS;
- Travel to Asia occasionally to attend technology reviews and resolve subcon issues;
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
- Experience working with packaging artwork;
- Demonstrated initiative; results oriented, initiative to institute changd;
- Competence in working with multiple databases, technical acronyms and complex data sets;
- Ability to problem solve and assist the reliability group on FA’s on assembly related failures;
- Independent thinker with demonstrated skills working in teams or leading project teams;
- Highly developed organizational, project management and influencing skills;
- Ability to carry on multiple projects, set time-lines and prioritize projects;
- Knowledge and experience of testing methods including CCI, ISTA, ASTM.