Packaging Engineer

About Elanco

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals! As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets. At Elanco, we are driven by our vision of Food and Companionship Enriching Life and our purpose – all to Go Beyond for Animals, Customers, Society and Our People. At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success. Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights. Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

Role Overview

As a Packaging Engineer, you will bring your specific expertise in packaging processes and materials to Elanco's External Manufacturing (EEM) teams. As a member of Joint Process Teams (JPT), you will ensure technical excellence, control of GMP documents, and oversight of finished products for the EMEA scope, while guaranteeing efficient and compliant production.

Responsibilities

• Provide packaging process and material expertise
• Participate in Joint process team (JPT) meetings as primary TSMS; ensure technical requirements of global standards are met.
• Change management.
• Maintain oversight of key batch processing records used at CMs, including SOP’s, Master Production Records, SPI’s.
• Write technical reports to convey status of key initiatives, and to communicate process metrics.
• Participate in site visits to the CM, to assess ongoing capability and, as required, to support resolution of complex technical issues and/or support implementation of significant process or procedural changes.
• Ensure that assigned products have an appropriate control strategy.
• Use data and process knowledge to identify continuous improvement (CI) opportunities.
• Support generation and review Annual Product Reports (APRs) / PQR’s.
• Prepare or coordinate potential technical inquiry Position Papers / Technical briefing documentation within network for support of submissions, internal inspections or Health Authorities related to packaging.
• Manage product / process transfer projects from a TSMS perspective
• Effectively mentor, coach and develop less senior TSMS scientists and engineers located within the hub on packaging.
• Working closely with the Network and Hub TS/MS Leads and Operations, support significant investigations related to deviation & complaints in the scope of packaging.
• Support and/or lead new product introductions and technical transfer of existing processes within and between internal / third parties across the hubs.

Minimum Qualifications

• An advanced university degree or demonstrated career experience in life science or engineering (e.g. pharmacy, chemistry, chemical engineering, veterinary medicine).
• Fluent in English and another European language.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in Pharmaceutical or Chemical Production / TS/MS / Pharmaceutical Drug Development / Quality Assurance.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in packaging processes, materials and packaging design.
• Thorough understanding of production processes.
• Strong working knowledge of applied statistics, quality systems and regulatory requirements across multiple health authorities.
• Strong Project management skills, strong communication skills, experience in working with interdisciplinary, multicultural teams as well as with external partners.
• Experienced in technical transfer or project management of production processes at manufacturing scale.
• Multi-tasking and priority management essential.
• Confident in team environment to contribute and challenge the status quo and take a technical stand when required - can represent technical information to senior management in a clear and concise manner.
• Expert in reviewing and writing technical reports. Can author technical documents to a high standard and is current with cGMP requirements in aspects of process validation, process change design and process monitoring compliance.
• Can apply excellent problem-solving methodology to complex technical situations within required deadlines using statistical data analysis as a tool and means to identify improvements.
• Flexibility in travel (sometimes at short notice) to support business deadlines and customer requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advance degrees (Ph.D., MBA) are an asset.
• Other languages are an asset.

Other Information

• Direct reports: none. Functional, indirect: 0 - 3
• Travel: Travel required (10-30%)

Benefits

• 26 days of paid leave + 15 RTT/year
• Variable pay on all positions
• Profit sharing & Participation
• Employee savings plan (PEE, PERCOL, supplementary retirement) with matching up to €3,000
• Subsidized company restaurant / caterer or meal voucher
• 80% public transport reimbursement; transport bonus
• Health and provident insurance
• You will join a growing production site committed to animal health, ethics, and innovation.

Location Details

The position is 100% remote. However, given the reporting to the Huningue site, we are looking for someone based in the Grand Est region.

Travel

10-30% per year.