Packaging Engineer

Location: Netherlands

SIRE® is the market leader in Life Sciences recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continuous innovation. We like technology, in a Life Sciences market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!Our client is a professional Pharmaceutical organisation, based in Noord-Holland Netherlands.

Role Description

The Steriles Device Team is managing a portfolio of legacy and new projects. With both there are developmental & technical challenges, problem investigations and continuous improvements to overcome, solve and implement.
The purpose of this role is to provide subject matter expertise to support the packaging technology team. The packaging engineer will be leading packaging related activities for combination product development. The majority activities are related to primary and secondary pack for combination products and authoring and reviewing design control documentation.
The role is global and will require to work across all phases of the projects. The packaging engineer will be part of a cross-functional team and will be required to contribute to multiple projects in parallel supporting all SDT portfolio device projects.

Responsibilities

- Supporting projects and processes through identification and implementation of technical solutions that involve packaging material selection and testing,
interactions with packaging materials, packaging machinability, components assembly and manufacturing or packaging processes.
- Supporting projects and processes through secondary pack development and verifying packaging design through distribution testing.
- Responsible for writing and reviewing packaging related design control documentation (e.g. design inputs, distribution protocol, etc.) and contribute to a high
quality Design History File (DHF)
- Packaging/device related trouble shooting and problem solving
- Manage relationships with primary, secondary pack and device suppliers, manufacturers, contract design houses, contract manufacturing companies, specialist
test houses.
- Drive and/or support packaging technology strategies/best practice

Requirements

- M.S. or PhD degree in Packaging, Packaging Materials, Materials Science, Physics, Chemistry, Polymer Science or Engineering
- Track record in packaging development activities.
- Ability to work in cross-functional teams
- Knowledge (through practical experience) of GMP, EU and FDA regulatory requirements
- Knowledge of packaging, packaging materials, device development and manufacturing processes
- Understanding of packaging or device and drug/device combination regulatory and quality requirements
- Understanding manufacturing processes and distribution testing

Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Windimi Post.