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Ecolab develops water, hygiene, and infection prevention solutions for organizations seeking safer, more efficient, and more sustainable operations. Founded in 1923, the company serves customers across more than 40 industries, including food and beverage, healthcare, and hospitality. Its services and technologies support water and energy conservation, food safety, operational performance, product quality, and guest satisfaction. Ecolab also advances long-term resource stewardship through initiatives such as Ecolab Water for Climate, which focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and conserving water.
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Principal Packaging Engineer, Life Sciences – Monheim am Rhein, Germany

Lead compliant and sustainable packaging development for Ecolab’s Life Sciences portfolio in Monheim am Rhein. Own validation, commercialization, supplier innovation, and lifecycle improvements across global products.

DEGermanyOn-siteFull-timeLeadEnglish RequiredEngineer
PMP

Description

  • Provide strategic packaging leadership for global product portfolios.
  • Ensure packaging systems satisfy customer, regulatory, sustainability, performance, and operational requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
  • Act as the lead packaging authority for product development, commercialization, lifecycle management, sustainability, compliance, and supplier innovation.
  • Direct the design, development, qualification, validation, and commercialization of primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging.
  • Manage packaging specifications, standards, change controls, and compliance records.
  • Develop packaging strategies that advance product quality, customer needs, regulatory compliance, efficiency, and sustainability.
  • Guide packaging work through Phase Gate, Stage Gate, Design Control, or comparable innovation processes.
  • Create and maintain packaging design standards, material specifications, test protocols, and best practices.
  • Assess, qualify, and oversee packaging materials, suppliers, and manufacturing partners.
  • Direct transportation testing, package performance evaluations, shelf-life studies, compatibility reviews, and packaging process qualification.
  • Contribute to investigations, CAPA, risk assessments, and root-cause analyses involving packaging quality or performance.
  • Partner with R&D, Quality, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Procurement, Marketing, and Sales on launches and lifecycle improvements.
  • Execute sustainability programs covering packaging reduction, recyclability, PCR adoption, PFAS elimination, and alternative materials.
  • Track developing packaging regulations and industry developments, including PPWR, EPR, sustainability legislation, customer expectations, and GMP requirements.
  • Assist with customer audits, regulatory inspections, supplier audits, and compliance programs.
  • Identify emerging packaging technologies, materials, digital solutions, and market trends.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Packaging Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Biomedical Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • At least five years of packaging engineering experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, diagnostics, healthcare, specialty chemical, personal care, food, or another regulated industry.
  • Strong knowledge of packaging development, material selection, package testing, supplier qualification, and product commercialization.
  • Practical understanding of regulated manufacturing, including GMP, quality systems, traceability, change control, risk management, and documentation.
  • Experience taking products through structured development and commercialization processes such as Phase Gate, Stage Gate, Design Control, or equivalent.
  • Knowledge of packaging sustainability and changing regulations, including PPWR, global food-contact and drinking-water packaging rules, and related European legislation.
  • Track record of leading cross-functional projects and influencing stakeholders across functions and regions.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and risk-assessment capabilities.
  • Ability to balance compliance, innovation, cost, sustainability, and operational priorities.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  • Fluent English; preferred experience includes regulated life sciences or contamination-control environments, sterile manufacturing, aseptic processing, sterilization, packaging validation, transportation or shelf-life testing, process qualification, container-closure integrity, tamper-evident packaging, traceability, serialization, European or global packaging regulations, packaging automation, manufacturing optimization, supplier management, external development partnerships, Six Sigma, Lean, PMP, IoPP, related certifications, or a valid EU driving licence.
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Benefits

  • Opportunities for personal and professional development.
  • Hands-on onboarding and intensive job training.
  • Broad employee benefits package.
  • Company pension plan.
  • Access to an on-site gym.
  • Massage chairs available on site.
  • Employee parking.
  • Coffee and connection areas.
  • Company canteen.
  • Think tanks for collaborative ideation.

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