Senior Packaging Engineer (Hybrid)

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Arroyo, PR 00714, Puerto Rico
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Work flexiblity: Hybrid Req ID: R528623 Employee type: Full Time Job category: Engineering Travel: 10% Relocation: No

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What you will do:

As a Senior Packaging Engineer, you will collaborate with both the NPD and Sustaining teams to design, manage, improve, and maintenance of sterile and non-sterile packaging. You will be responsible for designing and implementing new or revised packaging for medical devices, developing and issuing detailed specifications for procurement of packaging components, and ensuring the integrity of the packaging design through comprehensive testing following industry standards. 

  • Independently research, design, and develop packaging components, modules, and sub-systems for medical devices, ensuring quality and effectiveness.

  • Oversee sterile and non-sterile packaging from initial design through protocol writing, execution, and test report authoring, collaborating with internal teams and external partners.

  • Translate user needs into packaging design specifications and work with cross-functional teams to incorporate customer inputs.

  • Drive packaging design changes for enhanced product quality, environmental sustainability, and cost efficiency.

  • Ensure packaging validation work instructions comply with industry standards, FDA requirements, and internal protocols.

  • Perform root cause analysis and own packaging-related non-conformities (NCs) and corrective actions (CAPAs).

  • Work with teams in quality, manufacturing, regulatory, and marketing to ensure project success and participate in interdepartmental meetings and trainings.

  • Provide guidance on packaging design and testing, evaluate packaging tooling and equipment, and maintain packaging prints.

What you need:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Packaging Engineering/Packaging Science (preferred), Mechanical Engineering, Material Science, or Biomedical Engineering

  • 3+ years of relevant industry experience: Medical or regulated industry

  • Demonstrated technical ability with SolidWorks (or similar CAD software)

  • Packaging and design engineering experience

  • Understanding of ASTM International packaging standards and test methods, ISO 11607 packaging standards for sterile medical devices and ISO2233 packaging conditions standard

Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role. Apply Now