Associate Director – Engineering
MSD
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New Jersey, Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $126,500 - $199,100 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Lead the development and qualification of tertiary packaging components and processes, including environmental monitors for various human health products
- Analyze complex problems using critical thinking and laboratory experiments to create effective shipping solutions to maintain temperature control and physical protection
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to evaluate processes and shipping systems, resolving excursion issues, and implementing corrective actions
- Provide expert guidance and mentorship to engineers and other functions at our company
- Develop regional strategies for temperature-controlled product movement in collaboration with stakeholders
- Create detailed specifications for packaging components and maintain comprehensive documentation, including testing protocols and reports
- Develop sound scientific justifications for planned material and process changes related to secondary and tertiary packaging
- Develop working relationships with global company functions, external manufacturing and third-party distribution centers, with whom our company interfaces
- Document preparation, maintenance, and review of documentation including testing protocols, testing reports, technical memos and supplier assessments
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Packaging, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Material Science, or a related field
- Minimum of eight years of experience in engineering, logistics, planning, procurement, quality, or related disciplines
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills, aligning with our company’s Ways of Working norms
- Excellent technical writing and project management capabilities
- Preferred experience in packaging design and thermal protection systems, particularly in qualification of shipping systems (temperature control and protection from shock, vibration, and compression)
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills with an ability to interrogate the science, identify true requirements, and detect critical flaws
- Experience and knowledge of the pharmaceutical environment including regulatory requirements
- Familiarity with application of Lean Six Sigma principles, as well as Risk Management tools
- Understanding of new product introduction, commercial supply, lifecycle management
- Proven project leadership and complex problem-solving skills, with good written and verbal communication abilities
- Proven track record of driving continuous improvement and implementing best practices in technical support
- Strong strategic and analytical thinking, with a focus on driving continuous improvement
- Ability to guide key activities including development of standard work, investigations, and problem solving
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
- retirement benefits, including 401(k)
- paid holidays
- vacation
- compassionate and sick days
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
packaging designthermal protection systemstemperature controlshipping systems qualificationtechnical writingproject managementLean Six SigmaRisk Management toolsnew product introductionlifecycle management
Soft skills
interpersonal skillsleadership skillsproblem-solving skillsdecision-making skillsanalytical thinkingcommunication abilitiescollaborationmentorshipcritical thinkingcontinuous improvement