Start date - Jan 2025-July 2025
Performs modifications and reviews of secondary packaging artwork and implement new components within Manufacturing. Create/modify packaging specifications for primary, secondary and tertiary components. Perform packaging trials to onboard new packaging components and create equipment recipes within Manufacturing. Obtains knowledge and demonstrates ability to comply with Good Manufacturing Practices and company procedures. Develops and maintains cooperative cross-functional relationships with peers and leadership in Quality, Operations, Pharmaceutical Technology, and Supply Chain to meet objectives. In partnership with the site leaders sponsors a quality and compliance focused site culture which embraces RFT (right first time) and CI (continuous improvement) expectations.
Scope of Authority -
Co-Op of Package Engineering at Rochester, MI supports everyday activities of the Package Engineering Department.
Equipment dependent on area focus may include: Lab equipment (Drop Tester, Rub Tester, and Barcode Verifier), labelers, vision systems, cartoners, serialization systems.
Key Accountabilities
Operations
- Performs modifications and reviews of secondary packaging artwork and implement new components within Manufacturing.
- Create/modify packaging specifications for primary, secondary and tertiary components.
- Perform packaging trials to onboard packaging components and create equipment recipes within Manufacturing.
- Complete package testing and maintain packaging samples within Package Engineering Laboratory.
Compliance
- Understands & adheres to good documentation practices (GDP)
- Obtains knowledge and executes assignments in QMS areas: Change control.
- Initiates maximo work orders for equipment and facility repairs/modifications when necessary.
- Complies with training of batch records, SOP's, and cGMP's, and maintains documentation.
- Participates in safety meetings, investigates accidents, and takes appropriate corrective action to eliminate hazardous conditions.
Leadership
- Troubleshoots or resolves issues impeding department objectives/deliverable.
- Consistently communicates. Keeps manager/director informed of project statuses; elevates as needed.
- Participates in creating an atmosphere of team effort & open communication.
Qualifications
Education & Experience
Education
- Required- High School Diploma, and enrolled in a B.A. /B.S. Degree program in an engineering discipline.
- Desired – enrolled in B.A. or B.S. Package Engineering degree program with strong interest in Manufacturing environments and package development and testing.
Experience
- Required – not applicable
- Desired – Previous Co-Op experience.
Knowledge
- Knowledge of MS Office Suite and general computer-based application
Physical & Work Requirements
- Routine entry into a packaging environment that requires garbing into the area.
- Stand, Walk, Sit, Talk and/or Hear
- Occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision
- Frequently working near or exposed to moving mechanical parts
- The noise level is moderate
- Work environment is a production/manufacturing plant