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Ecolab dezvoltă soluții pentru apă, igienă și prevenirea infecțiilor, destinate organizațiilor care urmăresc operațiuni mai sigure, mai eficiente și mai sustenabile. Fondată în 1923, compania deservește clienți din peste 40 de industrii, inclusiv din domeniul alimentelor și băuturilor, al asistenței medicale și al ospitalității. Serviciile și tehnologiile sale sprijină conservarea apei și a energiei, siguranța alimentară, îmbunătățirea performanței operaționale, calitatea produselor și satisfacția oaspeților. Ecolab promovează, de asemenea, gestionarea responsabilă pe termen lung a resurselor prin inițiative precum Ecolab Water for Climate, care se concentrează pe reducerea emisiilor de gaze cu efect de seră și pe conservarea apei.

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.

Descriere

  • 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.

Cerințe

  • 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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Beneficii

  • 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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