Packaging Engineer

Capgemini Engineering is seeking a highly skilled Packaging Engineer to develop and implement packaging solutions for medical devices and pharmaceutical industries. In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, ensuring the delivery of innovative, compliant, and efficient packaging solutions that meets stringent standards for medical and pharmaceutical industries. Our clients are typically global leaders in healthcare, known for their advancements in treatments and medical technologies.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead Packaging Development: Oversee the conceptualization, design, and validation of packaging solutions for medical devices.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with internal teams and external suppliers.
• Documentation & IP Protection: Maintain Engineering documentation with detailed packaging specifications, and all required documentation. Ensure the safeguarding of intellectual property rights.
• Feasibility and Testing: Conduct detailed feasibility studies, material evaluations, and performance testing.
• Design Specifications: Define performance criteria, select appropriate materials, and create detailed design specifications for packaging products.
• Supplier and Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers, production & packaging component stakeholders.
• Project Leadership: Manage project timelines and deliverables, ensuring alignment with the stakeholder, external vendors and organizational goals.
• Regulatory Compliance: Ensure all packaging solutions adhere to relevant regulatory frameworks and standards.
• Process Improvement: Identify areas for continuous improvement in packaging processes and technologies.
• Production Readiness: Supervise production activities, ensuring alignment with design-for-manufacturability (DFM) principles.

Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Engineering or a related field.
• A minimum of 5 years of total work experience, with at least 2-3 years specifically in packaging development within regulated industries.
• Product Development: Expertise in product development of paper board-based packaging, from concept to production.
• Cross-functional (internal) & Supplier Management: Strong skills in managing relationships with suppliers, vendors and third-party stakeholders as well as internal stakeholder.

Technical Skills:

• Proficient in packaging materials, validation, and testing protocols.
• Knowledge of Quality Management Systems (QMS) ISO13485:2006 and ISO 11608-1:2022.

Industry Experience:

• Experience in executing projects in regulated environments and compliance guidelines.
• Preferred experience in pharmaceutical or medical device packaging.

Language Proficiency:

• Fluent in English, collaborate effectively across diverse cultural settings & international teams.

Work Type:

• Depending on assignment the position can be hybrid, with flexibility between on-site work and remote collaboration.
• Willingness and flexibility to travel as needed.

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