Assoc. Spclst, Engineering

Associate Specialist, Packaging Engineer

Our company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. The difference between potential and achievement lies in the spark that fuels innovation and inventiveness; this is the space where our company has codified its legacy for over a century. Our company's success is backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.

Our Manufacturing and Supply Division is a team of dedicated, energetic individuals who are committed to being the most trusted supplier of bio-pharmaceuticals and health products worldwide. Our facilities, along with our external contractors, suppliers, and partners, comprise an interdependent global manufacturing network that's committed to delivering compliant, reliable supply to customers and patients on time, every time, across the globe. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

The Packaging Commercialization department has an exciting opportunity for an Associate Specialist Packaging Engineer at either the Rahway, NJ or West Point, PA site. This candidate will serve as an individual contributor and foster our department mission to (1) design and develop responsible and accessible commercial packaging solutions with strong science, risk-based thinking, and focus on the customer while (2) striking the balance of being innovative and flexible to meet the evolving pipeline, while also continuously improving and standardizing our packaging solutions.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to focus on package development for a range of traditional pharmaceuticals (oral solid dosage, oral powders, suspensions, sterile injectables, and inhaled formulations) and biopharmaceutical applications (vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, and antibody drug conjugates) as well as provide input to primary packaging for the drug component and secondary packaging of medical device and combination products. Through support of the Packaging Working Groups, the successful candidate will collaborate on diverse, cross-functional teams with peers in drug product formulation and analytical development as well as supply chain and marketing to provide technical guidance during the development of primary, secondary and tertiary packaging for new products and specialty devices.

Packaging responsibilities include:

• Providing input regarding selection of primary packaging material
• Determination of package images to support commercialization as well as leading the shipping distribution strategy and coordination of shipping distribution studies efforts regarding characterization and qualification testing of robust packaging systems
• Authoring packaging specifications for primary, secondary and tertiary packaging as well as providing information to support relevant sections of BLA's, NDA's, WMA's, and JNDA's
• Interface with internal Global Packaging Technology Operations and Packaging Site Operations teams, as well as external Contract Manufacturing Operations and packaging component suppliers

Education minimum requirement:

• B.S. or higher degree in Packaging Engineering, Packaging Science, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or Pharmaceutical Science
• 1 year of relevant experience required.

Required experience and skills:

• Understanding of package development process and engineering principles
• Demonstrated experience in building collaborative partnerships
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to make rapid, disciplined decisions

Preferred experience and skills:

• Experience in new product pharmaceutical and/or biopharmaceutical development packaging
• Strong scientific and risk-based thinking
• Strong organizational skills and demonstrated ability to deliver on timelines

Your role at our company is integral to helping the world meet new breakthroughs that affect generations to come, and we're counting on your skills and inventiveness to help make meaningful contributions to global medical advancement. At our company, we're inventing for life.