Associate Principal Engineer - Packaging Design

AstraZeneca • Gaithersburg, MD

35d • $1,140,948 - $171,146

About The Position

Are you ready to make a significant impact on patients' lives? As an Associate Principal Engineer of Packaging Design, you will be at the forefront of planning, designing, and developing packaging materials. Your expertise will ensure the safe manufacture, storage, and transport of our life-changing drug products throughout their lifecycle. Join us in optimizing packaging for product protection, security, and sustainability. Accountabilities: In this role, you will help AstraZeneca biologics operations achieve best-in-class packaging solutions. You will be responsible for planning, designing, developing, qualifying, transferring, and supporting the manufacturing of packaged products. Your work will align with business needs and comply with laws and regulations throughout a product’s lifecycle. AstraZeneca offers an environment where innovation thrives. With constant new products and launches, we are at the cutting edge of science and manufacturing. Our team is united by a common goal to succeed, continuously seeking new ways to deliver medicines to patients. We embrace challenges as opportunities to learn and grow. Here, you will find a dynamic environment that encourages collaboration and rewards ideas. Ready to make a difference? Join us in shaping the future of healthcare. Apply today!

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field.
• Minimum of 5+ years of significant engineering or operational experience.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities.
• Strong interpersonal, organizational, collaboration, and communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to progress a packaging project from inception to commercialization including packaging materials, designs and manufacturing processes, qualification, validation and systems.
• Experience designing packages with auto-CAD for secondary packaging systems for vials and combination products (accessorized pre-filled syringes, auto-injectors), and tertiary systems.
• Experience in designing shipping qualification studies (real and simulated with accelerometers).
• Experience in transferring and supporting assembly, label and pack production.
• Knowledge of current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs), packaging laws, regulations, and guidance, and experience authoring quality management system (QMS) documents: change controls, CAPAs (Corrective Actions / Preventive Actions) and deviations.
• Authoring study protocols and reports, specifications, SOPs, batch records, etc.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in device combination products packaging and assembly.

Responsibilities

• planning, designing, and developing packaging materials
• ensure the safe manufacture, storage, and transport of our life-changing drug products throughout their lifecycle
• optimizing packaging for product protection, security, and sustainability
• planning, designing, developing, qualifying, transferring, and supporting the manufacturing of packaged products
• align with business needs and comply with laws and regulations throughout a product’s lifecycle

Benefits

• short-term incentive bonus opportunity
• eligibility to participate in our equity-based long-term incentive program (salaried roles)
• to receive a retirement contribution (hourly roles)
• commission payment eligibility (sales roles)
• qualified retirement program [401(k) plan]
• paid vacation and holidays
• paid leaves
• health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees