Packaging Engineer II - 24 month contract

Medtronic
This position is an exciting and new opportunity to work with Medtronic’s ACM (Acute Care & Monitoring) business. At Medtronic, we value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress and deliver meaningful innovations.

At our Athlone Manufacturing Facility, we focus on meeting customer and patient needs every day. Our focus is on delivering the highest levels of quality products to our patients. We do this through the development and operation of manufacturing processes to the highest levels of efficiency and performance. We achieve our aims through our people, our high performing teams. We focus on the development of cutting-edge medical devices in Airway Management but also for other life enhancing applications.

Our Purpose 
We are seeking a hands-on Packaging Engineer II to support our manufacturing operation. You will work closely with several functions including Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, R&D and Sustaining in the delivery of daily packaging process support to meet KPI’s (e.g. Yield and OEE), continuous improvements and new equipment introductions and validation.  You will ensure the outcome of your work and focus will drive consistent packaging and labelling quality output of our packed endotracheal, tracheostomy and vascular medical devices used to alleviate pain, restore health and extend life of our patients. 

The Packaging Engineering scope includes materials, components, process, equipment, automation, labelling, scanning, materials, metrics measurement and reporting, qualification and validation, financial and technical performance.

Come for a job, stay for a career!

A Day in The Life Of:
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned;

• Designs packaging and labelling processes, procedures and packaging layouts for assemblies, equipment installation, processing, machining and material handling and fabrication of tools.
• Designs arrangement of packaging and labelling machines within plant facilities to ensure most efficient and productive layouts.
• Designs sequence of operations and specifies procedures for the fabrication of packaging tools and equipment and other functions that affect product performance.
• Implement statistical process control, OEE and process efficiency measurement and improvement tools.
• Inspects performance of machinery, equipment, and tools to verify their efficiency. Support technical root cause investigations and implement corrective actions.
• Ensures processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations. Contributes to and partners with the New Product Introduction (NPI) function to define, execute and deliver on NPI requirements.
• Leads verification, validation, and implementation of package systems for both design and process development.
• Develops technical documentation including design specs, input requirements, validations and technical reports in accordance with quality system requirements.
• Utilises project management skills to gain alignment, lead cross functional teams, and drive continuous improvement projects that focus on “best in class” outcomes.
• Utilises functional excellence in packaging development following Design for Reliability and Manufacturability practices (DRM), 3D Software Design (SolidWorks, FEA), Statistics (Minitab) along with Project Management techniques.