R&D Senior Packaging Engineer
BD
- Tuas, Singapore
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Work as part of the broader SMTI team to assess environmental impact of BD products, with focus on products in Greater Asia region.
- Work with R&D representatives to obtain feedback, make changes as necessary.
- Demonstrated understanding of translating customer needs into engineering requirements leading to specific packaging, and process specifications
- Collaboration with Manufacturing and cross-functional teams (including Manufacturing Technology, Quality, Marketing, Regulatory, Operations) across businesses to propose; assess the feasibility of; and implement packaging design, material, or process changes, including creative solutions to business or technical needs.
- Synthesize, develop, update, and optimize designs that meet requirements by understanding design space with design options and tradeoffs, managing critical parameters, leverage strong engineering fundamentals and tools and integrating manufacturing principles early in the development.
- Assess manufacturability of new packaging designs, development of packaging processes and changes to existing packaging designs and processes
- Support cost and supply continuity needs through continuous improvement, technology assessment, and innovation.
- Develop and execute packaging test methods that specify measurement equipment, test set-up, measurement systems analysis, and data analysis and align to business and regulatory requirements and needs.
- Write technical reports based on experimental investigations.
- Solve technical challenges drawing on a combination of experience, sound judgment, problem-solving skills, engineering first principles, and advanced engineering methods.
- Comply with all local, state, federal, and BD safety regulations, policies, and procedures.
- Comply with all local BD quality policies, procedures, and practices through consistent application of sound quality assurance principles.
- Bachelor Degree in Mechanical/Packaging or related Engineering field is required. Master’s degree is strongly preferred.
- Minimum 5 years of packaging experience, preferably in medical device or food contact packaging.
- Design for high volume in regulated product manufacturing is preferred.
- Experience/knowledge with CAD tools for packaging design
- Demonstrated contributions to delivering robust packaging solutions.
- Medical device packaging system development for flexible and rigid medical device packaging applications
- Experience with statistics and design of experiments.
- Knowledge of the following standards: ISO 13485, ISO 11607, and ISO 14971.
- Experience in package development including, design of packaging for medical devices including familiarity with packaging materials and their limitations, and a demonstrated ability to translate internal and external customer needs into low cost and reliable package designs.
- Experience with forming, sealing process and tooling design and development for form/fill/seal, flow-wrap, pouch solutions.
- Experience with fabrication process to ensure manufacturability.