Sr Packaging Engineer

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You'll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.

Your Role at Baxter

This is where your work saves lives

The projects we manage in support of the products we help manufacture improve outcomes for patients around the world. As a Sr. Packaging Engineer at Baxter, your work contributes directly to making a significant impact on others. It's challenging work—and you're not on your own. The packaging engineering team works in conjunction with various groups to bridge the gap between product, production, and the customer needs. You will interact with a variety of Baxter products (from drug products, to disposables, hardware, to tissue and bone repair technology).  Collaborate with cross functional teams around the world, and travel to various manufacturing locations to develop packaging solutions and ensure production of these lifesaving products. 

Your role will focus on margin improvement projects (MIP) on product packaging..  Due to the breadth of Baxter’s product portfolio, this results in the exciting opportunity to be exposed to several types of packaging materials and processes including flexible and rigid films, HDPE and foil pouches, corrugated design and protective packaging, thermoforming, flow-wrap, form/fill/seal, printing technologies and other related packaging processes.

Your Team

While everyone at Baxter has a shared passion for our mission, the ISC Medical Products & Therapies (MPT) Packaging Engineering Team plays a critical role in our ability to save and sustain lives.  Packaging engineering team is mainly based in Round Lake, Illinois.  This role will be in a different region and will have remote flexibility. 

Team members work together to manage packaging design and materials change projects to successful completion through best practices and stakeholder management.  ISC MPT Packaging Team, effectively prioritize projects and interfaces with support functions and facility resources to drive projects to successful completion that ensure high quality, safe and effective products so our patients can live their best lives.

We encourage teamwork and collaboration and prioritize building relationships with each other. It's easy to do because we all share common traits of reliability, ethical, and caring. We lean on our colleagues for their expertise and hold each other accountable.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead and/or contribute to the planning and execution of packaging projects for a variety of project types including Quality/CAPA, Regulatory Compliance, Supplier Notices of Change, Cost Savings, and New Product Introductions at various domestic and international manufacturing facilities.
• Manage projects with minimum complexity and scope.  Required to effectively manage multiple projects with moderate assistance and supervision. May work on a large scale program or several smaller projects.
• Develop protocols for testing and engage in Change Control activities interfacing with multiple functional groups, including manufacturing plants and suppliers in a team environment to execute packaging changes.
• Approve new packaging materials and systems, studying and recommending techniques to improve and/or cost reduce existing products/processes, investigating new sources for packaging materials.
• Create packaging material specifications, associated drawings, and packaging procedural specifications to provide the required technical information necessary to support the product/packaging configuration.
• Plans, schedules, and collaborates with cross-functional team supporting packaging projects to achieved project objectives and milestones.
• Expected to utilize their experience to generate cost savings ideas by recommending new materials or design modifications and resolve packaging issues by using critical thinking skills and DMAIC techniques to solve complex problems.
• Perform financial planning and assists in the analysis to justify project approval.

What you’ll bring

• B.S. in Packaging or relevant Engineering degree (e.g. Mechanical, Chemical, Biomedical) with a minimum of 3 years of experience.
• Must have experience or advanced training and demonstrate proficiency in packaging materials and processes, problem analysis and resolution, statistical methods, and design of experiments.
• Proficient in applicable change control and development methodology and processes required to execute packaging projects.
• Successful track record of managing packaging projects possessing a sense of urgency and commitment to meet project milestones to ensure manufacturing plants and R&D teams achieve targeted goals.
• Cross-functional team experience, including technical and non-technical work.
• The ability to deal with ambiguity and effective use of creative problem solving skills.
• Embrace Lean Principals and utilize concepts such as standard work to drive continuous improvement.
• Ability to organize and present technical and project management overviews with minimal assistance.

Preferred:

• Experience with medical products or in a regulated environment.

Reasonable Accommodations

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