Packaging Engineer

Packaging Engineer 
 

Fareva Richmond Inc. is currently seeking an experienced Packaging Engineer to join their team in Richmond, VA. 
 
Who we are:

Fareva is one of the top 3 Global leaders in contract manufacturing with more than 13,000 employees, 800 customers, and 40 manufacturing sites in Europe, the Americas, and the emerging markets. Fareva, headquartered in Luxembourg, has revenues of US $2.5 billion and is divided into five core areas: household & industrial, beauty care, pharmaceutics, API, and makeup.

Job Description:

 With considerable knowledge in a specific field, the incumbent is responsible for tasks and projects related to qualification of alternate components, and component design. Work may include projects and tasks in any or all of the following stages: scope definition, feasibility, design/modeling, simulation, cost/benefit analyses, specification development, project planning, implementation, and post-implementation monitoring and follow-up. Developing detailed plans, the incumbent will contribute on cross-functional projects and may lead some focused teams, with involvement and coaching from their supervisor. Projects must achieve business, quality, and compliance objectives, and must be executed in a manner that assures full compliance with government regulations and internal company standards and values
 
Job Responsibilities:

• Identify opportunities and contribute to the development of solutions for quality, efficiency, profitability, customer service, or compliance improvements.
• Apply new technologies or techniques to existing processes to ensure that legacy packaging processes benefit from advances in technology
• Process upgrades to incorporate new regulatory requirements, and process changes as required utilizing new components or materials.
• Help to define scope of project in consultation with supervisor and stakeholders.
• Individually or collaboratively through influence on a project team, define alternative solutions, and decision criteria used to evaluate the alternatives.
• Develop tactical plans and prioritize the routine tasks collaboratively with others to achieve project goals. 
• Transition with project to contribute to key aspects of implementation efforts. 
• Designs and specifies components that support product maintenance and launch
• Defines process, material, and product specifications for both control and response variables
• Evaluate alternatives or proposed changes through hypothesis testing, simulation, laboratory testing or other means
• Make recommendations on alternative selection.
• Develops detailed plans and prioritizes the routine tasks within the plan to achieve goals of incumbent’s projects
• Lead implementation efforts with complete responsibility for smaller-scope projects or for discrete portions of large projects
• With coaching from supervisor, may concurrently apply a technology across more than one project or work cell
• Identifies, resolves, and removes logistical or technical limitations and barriers to task completion, and elevates more systemic or significant issues to management if necessary
• Collaborate between sites where improvements have synergistic opportunities or where there are requirements for consistency or collaboration.
• Participates in focused, proactive problem-solving efforts for packaging component related issues
• Troubleshoots and resolves simple to moderately complex process issues, diagnosing technical problems and identifying short- and long-term solutions
• Works closely with cross-functional groups to resolve system problems to optimize output, and minimize cost
• Promotes cGMP compliance within the workplace by following site cGMP procedures
• Incorporate cGMP and regulatory compliance into all assigned projects scope, design and construction work.

Requirements:

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in engineering or natural sciences. 
• 4-6 years’ experience in regulatory affairs, operations, quality assurance, Procurement or development functions as practiced in the Pharmaceutical, Biological, or related field. 

Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, attention to detail and accuracy, and interpersonal skills are required. 
• Training in current Good Manufacturing Practices, and other appropriate sections of the Code of Federal Regulations, regulatory guidance documents and current industry practices for package engineering, component qualification, and material selection.  

 Compensation and Benefits:

• Competitive salary, commensurate with experience
• Comprehensive health/vision/dental insurance,
• Company paid short term disability,
• Company paid life and accidental death insurance,
• 401(k) plan match of 4.5% with immediate vesting,
• Generous employee referral program,
• Paid vacation annually, paid holidays annually,
• Manufacturing employees also receive company paid work shoes, uniforms and prescription safety eyeglasses.