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Senior Packaging Engineer - Manufacturing: Life Sciences - Beaverton, MI

A Senior Packaging Engineer will lead initiatives across BPS business with our manufacturing team in a GMP-regulated biopharmaceutical or cleanroom setting. Responsibility includes designing, developing, and validating all packaging systems (new, existing, developing) to meet regulatory, product integrity, and operational requirements. This role plays a key part in ensuring product safety, sterility, and compliance across the packaging lifecycle and will also improve our cost position and sustainability aspects of our packaging as well as help with training to manufacturing and engineering on proper handling and packaging of new product lines. This role will work, lead and influence multiple sites packaging approach and work on multiple projects simultaneously while coordinating the management of the change order process with quality team support.

Drive improvement of packaging systems:

+ Collaborate cross-functionally with Quality, Regulatory, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain teams to ensure all packaging systems (new, existing, developing) meet operational and compliance requirements serving as technical and program subject matter expert internally and externally.

+ Plan, design, develop, validate, and improve package systems for sterile and non-sterile products

+ Focus on usability, cost reduction and sustainability of all packaging.

Serve as Packaging Subject Matter Expert:

+ Lead cross functional teams, site, technical transfers, and other packaging initiatives.

+ Collaborate with Operations, Design, Quality, Commercial, Procurement, and others to improve and manage package systems throughout the product life cycle.

+ SME of packaging integrity, shelf-life, transit simulation, and material compatibility testing.

+ Support audits and regulatory inspections as SME

Packaging Strategy:

+ Leads and/or participates in risk assessments, sustainability, and cost improvement initiatives related to packaging by defining and delivering projects to plan.

+ Development of global packaging standards and leader of strategic packaging initiatives with focus on best practices, stakeholder value, quality, and cost effectiveness.

+ Lead and develop internal and external component packaging strategy

Communication:

+ Routinely communicates with site and global cross functional teams on status of projects, improvements and initiatives.

+ Provide monthly reporting for projects and focus related to packaging.

+ Minimum Bachelor's Degree in Packaging Engineering, Engineering, or equivalent related degree required

+ Project Management experience (including packaging projects) 1-2 years required

+ 5 to 7 years of experience in packaging engineering (experience in a regulated industry with a preferred emphasis in Life Sciences) required

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Employees have the flexibility to choose the benefits that best fit their individual needs.

+ Health and Wellbeing – Supporting your wellbeing, to thrive in life and work.

+ Medical, Prescription Drug, Vision, and Dental Insurance

+ Healthcare Saving Account and Flexible Spending Account options

+ LiveWell Wellness Program

+ Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

+ Paid Time Off and Paid Parental Leave

+ Retirement and Protection - Helping to make the future life you want a reality.

+ 401(k) with Company Match, Retirement Accumulation Plan (RAP), Cash Balance Pension Plan

+ Company-provided Life Insurance, AD&D, Short-Term Disability

+ Voluntary employee and dependent life insurance, Long-Term Disability, Critical Illness and Accident Insurance

+ Additional Benefits – Helping shape the experience and impact you want

+ Commuter Benefits

+ Group Legal

+ Identity Theft Protection

+ Auto and Home Insurance

+ Pet Insurance and Discounts

+ Back-up Child & Elder Care

+ PerkSpot Employee Discount Program

Saint-Gobain’s innovations touch almost every major industry around the world. Within its Life Sciences division, teams are solving critical problems for customers who are getting life-saving medical devices to the frontlines of healthcare, discovering essential medications, and nourishing and connecting the world through consumer, industrial and electronics applications. As one of the world’s leading producers of high-performance polymer products, we improve lives by making simple experiences better and being there in life’s critical moments.

Our team members recognize that we all create the environment for people to succeed, with a culture built on respect, open and honest communication, and honoring our commitments to our customers and each other. And at the heart of our culture, we’ve learned working together makes good ideas, great ones.

With a legacy dating back more than 350 years, Saint-Gobain offers employees the stability and security of a leading Global 500 corporation while operating like multiple small and agile start-ups, where entrepreneurial spirit, pioneering teamwork, and bold, forward-thinking ideas pave new paths.

Every team member is encouraged to develop and leverage their unique expertise and strengths to make the greatest impact on the company and our end users. At Saint-Gobain, you’re empowered and equipped with countless opportunities and resources for professional development. You will find the support you need to create a vision and roadmap for your career, and make that vision a reality.

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Join Us at Saint-Gobain Life Sciences. Together, we’ll create a better life.

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Saint-Gobain provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Saint-Gobain is an equal opportunity employer of individuals with disabilities and supports the hiring of veterans.