Manufacturing Packaging Engineer

Primary Function of Position

The engineer in this position will support activities like development, validation and maintenance of instruments and / or accessories packaging processes across the company, according to the criteria established in internal procedures (SOP’s. WI’s) and the quality standards applicable to the medical industry, to guarantee the integrity of the finished product.

Essential Job Duties

• Apply engineering concepts to the optimization of manufacturing and packaging processes to achieve better process performance.
• Review the daily status of the packaging processes of entire plant.
• Provide support to the production lines due to problems related to packaging processes when required by the engineer owner of the line.
• Analyze quality notifications (NCR’s, PL’s, EE’s) related to the packaging process to determine provisions for the root cause, their resolution and closure in the SAP system.
• Participate in the implementation of line transfers or introduction of new products (NPI’s) related to packaging processes.
• Identify parameters and critical packaging process windows (time, pressure, temperature, etc.) through design of experiments (DOE).
• Perform IQOQPQ and PPQ related to their design, redesign or integration of new or existing packaging processes.
• Develop the process flow for integration into the production line (travelers / WI’s / BOM’s).
• Design and / or modify flows for work in progress (WIP) of packaging establishing the handling of material between stations.
• Interact with suppliers for matters related to packaging (Supply, SCR’s PPQPs, etc.).
• Develop continuous improvement projects in the packaging manufacturing process to improve efficiency and reduce costs.