Job Title: Packaging Engineer
Location: Wayne, NJ (Hybrid)
Job Type: Full Time
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Packaging design for Medical Device, Pharmaceutical and combination products.
- Technical leader of the design, development, and qualification of packaging systems for new and existing products. Independently develops and drives strategies for:
- Design Development: Develops packaging designs, edge of failure analysis, process development and design verification.
- Design for Manufacturability: Assess manufacturability, material selection, development of packaging processes for new or existing packaging systems.
- Defining Packaging Requirements: Translate customers and regulatory needs into engineering requirements and specifications.
- Implement DFSS tools through the design selection and development process, deploying statistical and analytical tools.
- Internal technical packaging and mentor for other packaging engineers
Education and Experience:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Packaging, Mechanical, Materials Engineering or a related Science/Engineering field is required. A post-graduate degree (MSc or PhD) is preferred.
- A minimum of 6 years of experience in packaging of medical devices, pharmaceutical and/or combination products is required.
- A demonstrated track record of technical influential leadership and delivering results
- Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills
Knowledge and Skills:
Required
- Packaging systems, medical device, design verification and validation experience for primary, secondary and tertiary; flexible and rigid packaging applications
- Experience with different medical device package designs (i.e. FFS pouch, top lid rigid trays, pre-made pouches, etc)
- Proficiency using solid modeling tools (SolidWorks preferred)
- Proven experience on forming and sealing packaging processes
- Experience using design for six sigma (DFSS) elements for packaging systems design and/or analysis
- Statistical analysis using Minitab software (i.e. DOE, process capability, analysis of variances)
- Understanding of sterilization technologies (i.e. radiation and gas) and their impact on medical device packaging
- Proven expertise on technical critical thinking interpreting data results, demonstrating equivalency and/or technical rationales for medical device packaging design systems
- Detailed knowledge of ISO-11607-1 and -2, ISO 13485, medical device packaging ASTMs, cGMP and medical device validation methodology
Preferred
- Experience on DOT, IATA and IMDG regulations for the shipment of hazardous materials
- V&V experience for drug containers
- Proven expertise in finite element analysis
- Proven use of engineering first principles analysis
- Container closure USP standard & WHO guidelines