Santa Monica, CA
Contract Duration: 4-18 months
Rate: Negotiable
Responsibilities:
- Excellent employment opportunity for an Packaging Engineering in the Santa Monica, CA area. (onsite)
- The position will report to the Associate Director of Packaging Engineering.
- The ability to work independently in a dynamic work environment managing their own projects.
- Using the resources of the team to fully immerse oneself into their projects and implement with support from the team.
- While utilizing industry best practices to conduct the design, development, qualification, and implementation of packaging and labeling materials for temperature-controlled, sterile products
- Write engineering test protocols, execute testing in conjunction with internal partners and third-party laboratories, and write engineering test summary reports
- Write material specifications and process instructions for new and existing packaging and labeling materials
- Qualify shipping methods and processes to ensure the safe delivery of life-saving therapies
- Engineer will also be responsible for Investigating complaints/deviations and develop solutions for issues related to logistics, packaging (materials and design), labeling and cold chain transport
- Provide support for lifecycle management of cold chain packaging and labeling components
- Provide packaging and shipping expertise to support both internal and external logistics and supply chain partners
- Comply with the company change control procedures to ensure that only approved packaging materials and processes are used
- Identify alternate suppliers, as appropriate
- Work closely with internal partners, Materials Management, Quality, and Manufacturing to provide packaging and labeling solutions
- Successfully operate in a fast paced and dynamic cross-functional environment
Experience:
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial, Chemical, Packaging Engineering, and/or Scientific field and 0-2 years of relevant industry experience.
- Cold chain packaging and shipping experience desired
- Good verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills are required.
- Working knowledge and computer skills required.
- Must be able to anticipate routine client obstacles and difficulties of and act upon this in order to meet goals.
- Must be able to write clear, concise and error-free documents.
- Must be able to exercise judgment within well-defined and established procedures and policies in order to determine and take appropriate action.
- Must have knowledge of the FDA, cGMP, and GCP standards.