Senior Packaging Engineer

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the LifeBe a part of the Medtronic Engineering and Innovation Center (MEIC) in Hyderabad by applying your skills to the growth, development, and sustaining efforts of Medical Devices products within the center.
We value what makes you unique. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned

As a Senior Packaging Engineer at MEIC, you will design, develop, and test a wide variety of packaging used for the protection, display, and handling of products. You will determine packaging specifications according to the nature of the product, cost limitations, legal requirements, and the type of protection required. This includes considering resistance to external variables such as moisture, corrosive chemicals, temperature variations, light, heat, rough handling, and tampering. Additionally, you will design package exteriors considering product identification, sales appeal, aesthetic quality, printing, and production techniques. Responsibilities may include documentation management and/or coordination of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) and supporting prototype line development, design & manufacturing transfer activities in manufacturing facilities/plants.

• Work independently under limited supervision to design and develop packaging solutions for medical devices including sterile & non-sterile packaging.

• Collaborate with OEM suppliers, coordinate for reviews & approvals with cross-functional departments for design and manufacturing transfer activities.
• Execute design & material qualification, verification, validation, and implementation of package solutions in accordance with Industrial standards (ASTM,ISTA,IEC,UL) and quality system requirements (FDA and EU).
• Execute engineering change management & documentation including EC routings and collations of input requirements, design specs, verification & testing protocols, validation plans along with technical reporting.
• Knowledge of artwork and labelling creation and revisions for product packaging.
• Hands-on experience with CAD software like Creo and Solidworks, and artwork software such as Adobe Illustrator and Corel Draw.
• Skillful in using Project Management techniques and tools to execute multiple projects and ensure delivery excellence for Quality, cost and time.

Required Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelors degree required Minimum of 8 to 12 years of relevant experience, or Packaging Master degree  with a minimum of 4 years relevant experience
• Packaging Material Qualification and Testing
• Production methods with respect to Packaging industries.
• Hands on expertise in executing DFMEA,PFMEA,PPAP,DFM&A activies.
• PLM (Windhchill, Agile)
• GD&T Knowledge & Certification
• Ability to prepare written policies, procedures, proposal, and reports.
• Effective communication skills with superiors (department managers, senior management, steering committee members, cross functional vice presidents), peers, and subordinates.
• Ability to plan and document projects effectively. Ability to manage multiple ongoing projects by way of good organizational skills.
• Knowledge of Medical Device Standards (FAD,EU MDR,ASTM,ISO,IEC)
• Knowledge of Medical Device Product/Site Transfers

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here