What are the responsibilities and job description for the Equipment Packaging Specialist position at Navitas Partners, LLC?
Title: Equipment Packaging Specialist
Duration: 12 months
Location: Millsboro, DE
Responsibilities:
• Has an understanding of packaging scientific/technical concepts and techniques, applies and furthers those concepts and techniques to execute in pursuit of resolving scientific/technical packaging issues.
• Pioneers the application, sharing and retention of cutting-edge techniques or processes, including those from other industries by providing leadership in Communities of Practice and other forums.
Science with a Strategic Business Focus:
• Ability to understand the bigger picture and business goals in order to ensure project success.
• Understands the criticality of securing early sponsorship and stakeholder alignment for projects and initiatives.
• Operates effectively as a leader of a project, or a key member of multiple small teams.
• Makes informed cost/ benefit decisions based on analysis of inputs, outcomes, risk and likely return, and displays ownership.
• Demonstrates the necessary collaboration skills to integrate input and perspective from various sources and demonstrates ability to explain the decision and its implications to key stakeholders, and champions initiatives.
• Continuously develops skills in and routinely applies appropriate tools to measure and enhance functional and team performance.
• Utilizes packaging expertise to develop value added solutions to customer needs.
• Uses feedback to ensure that customer/stakeholder needs are the cornerstone of his/her decisions, expectations are met on a consistent basis and works with a long-term perspective in addressing customer problems.
Culture and interactions with others:
• Actively supports and applies the various initiatives and goals of our Company Manufacturing Division and the company.
• Acts as a catalyst for change and stimulates others to change.
• Guides the reallocation of roles and responsibilities across team members to facilitate goal achievement and personal development.
• Contributes to developing technical skills in organization and builds high performance teams.
• Speaks/presents effectively to both internal and external audiences to influence change and build consensus.
• Continually improves communication systems and practices within and across teams/units/functions.
• Proactively reviews own performance and progress and seeks feedback from manager/peers/stakeholder to close gaps.
• Shows courage to provide candid, timely and tactful communication and feedback to others.
• Ability to work in roles that require significant interaction with leadership team levels.
Qualifications:
Education Minimum Requirement: Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or similar technical field; Mechanical Engineering, Packaging Science, Packaging Engineering, Chemistry or similar
Required Experience and Skills:
•3 years combined packaging and/or pharmaceutical/medical device manufacturing experience (1 years of the experience should be within packaging support/ project management)
•Interpersonal and leadership skills.
Preferred Experience and Skills:
•Experience and knowledge of the pharmaceutical environment.
•Experience in packaging equipment
•Experience with primary and secondary packaging.
•Proven project leadership/ management and complex problem-solving skills.
•Ability to determine areas of potential risk to business success and generate gap analysis.
•Good interpersonal skills including flexibility and ability to work in a team environment.
•Good written and verbal communication skills.
Note: Travel
Willing to travel domestically up to 10% of the time.
