Manufacturing Packaging Specialist - MPS 25-20697

Title: Manufacturing Packaging Specialist
Duration: 12 months
Location: Millsboro, DE

Rate: $45.00/hr on W2

Job Description:

Reporting to the Associate Director of BTS in Millsboro, DE, the Associate Project Manager assumes responsibility for the complete life cycle of packaging solutions, including development, validation, and implementation, with a specific focus on the Millsboro manufacturing site. This encompasses projects involving new packaging, issue resolution, and enhancement initiatives. The role involves steering projects to successful completion, evaluating the implications of implementing packaging solution standards, and providing oversight for ongoing implementation and standardization projects. Additionally, the role includes initiating new initiatives aligned with the packaging strategy and participating as a subject matter expert in capital expenditure (capex) projects.

Close collaboration is essential, requiring coordination with R&D Product Development, Global Engineering Services, Global Supplier Management, site filling and packaging departments, and external suppliers of packaging materials and equipment.

Responsibilities:

• Understands packaging scientific/technical concepts and techniques, applying and advancing those concepts to resolve packaging issues.
• Leads 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:

• Understands the bigger picture and business goals to ensure project success.
• Secures early sponsorship and stakeholder alignment for projects and initiatives.
• Operates effectively as a project leader or a key member of multiple small teams.
• Makes informed cost/benefit decisions based on analysis of inputs, outcomes, risk, and likely return.
• Demonstrates collaboration skills to integrate input and perspectives from various sources, explains decisions and their implications to key stakeholders, and champions initiatives.
• Continuously develops skills and 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 customer/stakeholder needs are met consistently and works with a long-term perspective in addressing customer problems.

Culture and Interactions with Others:

• Supports and applies various initiatives and goals of the Manufacturing Division.
• Acts as a catalyst for change and encourages others to embrace change.
• Guides the reallocation of roles and responsibilities across team members to facilitate goal achievement and personal development.
• Contributes to developing technical skills in the organization and builds high-performance teams.
• Speaks and presents effectively to internal and external audiences to influence change and build consensus.
• Continuously improves communication systems and practices within and across teams, units, and functions.
• Proactively reviews personal performance and seeks feedback from managers, peers, and stakeholders to close gaps.
• Provides candid, timely, and tactful communication and feedback to others.
• Works effectively in roles requiring significant interaction with leadership team levels.

Qualifications:

Education Minimum Requirement:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or similar technical field (e.g., Mechanical Engineering, Packaging Science, Packaging Engineering, Chemistry, or related disciplines).

Required Experience and Skills:

• 3 years of combined packaging and/or pharmaceutical/medical device manufacturing experience (with at least 1 year in packaging support/project management).
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Experience and knowledge of the pharmaceutical environment.
• Experience with packaging equipment.
• Experience with primary and secondary packaging.
• Proven project leadership/management and complex problem-solving skills.
• Ability to identify potential business risks and conduct gap analysis.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including flexibility and ability to work in a team environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.