Job Description

At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.

Senior Packaging Engineer

The Senior Packaging Engineer in our St. Louis, MO facility is responsible for conceptualizing, designing, developing, revising, coordinating, and implementing packaging structures for all products under the authority of STERIS St. Louis Operations. You will be responsible for products produced both internally on-site and externally by third party contract packagers.  In this role, the Senior Packaging Engineer identifies and proposes advanced packaging technologies to better satisfy internal and external customer needs. 

The work location is 100% onsite in St. Louis, MO 63133

This is a day shift position Monday – Friday with occasional Saturday hours based on business needs.  

What you’ll do as a Senior Packaging Engineer:

• Design, develop, and implement effective, creative, cost appropriate packaging’s consistent with the objectives STERIS Marketing, Product Development, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Quality Systems, Engineering, and Purchasing.  
• Ensure that packaging’s complies with hazardous materials transportation, FDA, EPA, cGMP, and ISO regulations and guidelines.
• Identify, support, and implement packaging solutions for new product introductions, cost reductions, component and process improvements, regulatory compliance, and problem and complaint resolution. 
• Identify and implement advanced packaging technologies to better satisfy internal and external customer needs.  
• Identify, develop, and implement, as approved, functional area enhancements in processes, systems, procedures, and technologies toward expanding functional deliverables. 
• Implement, coordinate, and/or supervise the evaluation and testing of new and revised packaging components, including Journey Hazard Testing for non-hazardous products applications. 
• Make package change recommendations and develop component specifications based on test results.  Maintain all test records in an orderly, readily retrievable format.
• Ensure compliance with applicable requirements for domestic and international multi-modal safe transport of listed hazardous materials products including the United States Department of Transportation (DOT), International Air Transport Association (IATA), International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG), and United Nations (UN). 

• Implement, coordinate, and/or supervise applicable design qualification testing, periodic re-testing, and, as applicable, production testing, as required. 
• Maintain current knowledge in hazardous materials packaging design requirements. 
• Review and update (or create new) Packaging Structures Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to ensure correct documentation of actual functional processes.
• Review Packaging Structures Related SOPs and functional area processes to identify and implement improvements in output capacity, accuracy, reduction of non-valued added effort, and project planning/scheduling/status reporting.
• Develop reports and documentation to facilitate communication in support of the Packaging Structures function.
• Mentor junior contributors to promote individual growth.
• Achieve an injury free personal safety record.

The Experience, Skills and Abilities Needed:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or chemistry (Mechanical, Packaging, or Chemical).   
• 5 or more years of engineering/packaging experience, preferably in the pharmaceutical and/or medical device industry with a comprehensive knowledge of packaging technology Design and materials.
• Knowledge of MS Office applications including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Preferred Experience

• Experience using AutoCAD, preferred. 
• Knowledge of Lean manufacturing principles. Participation in Kaizen Events or Triage Events, preferred.     
• New product design and packaging solutions experience, preferred.    

What STERIS Offers:

The opportunity to join a company that will invest in you for the long-term. STERIS couldn’t be where it is today without our incredible people. That’s why we share in our success together by rewarding you for your hard work. Hiring people who are in it for the long run with STERIS is our ultimate goal. We do this by providing competitive salaries, healthcare benefits, tuition assistance, paid time off, holidays, matching 401(k), annual merit, and incentive plans.  Join us and help write our next chapter.

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STERIS is a leading global provider of products and services that support patient care with an emphasis on infection prevention.  WE HELP OUR CUSTOMERS CREATE A HEALTHIER AND SAFER WORLD by providing innovative healthcare, life sciences and dental products and services. STERIS is a $5 billion, publicly traded (NYSE: STE) company with approximately 17,000 associates and Customers in more than 100 countries.

If you need assistance completing the application process, please call 1 (440) 392.7047 . This contact information is for accommodation inquiries only and cannot be used to check application status.

STERIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We are committed to equal employment opportunity and the use of affirmative action programs to ensure that persons are recruited, hired, trained, transferred and promoted in all job groups regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state or local law.  We are not only committed to this policy by our status as a federal government contractor, but also we are strongly bound by the principle of equal employment opportunity.

The full affirmative action program, absent the data metrics required by § 60-741.44(k), shall be available to all employees and applicants for employment for inspection upon request. The program may be obtained at your location’s HR Office during normal business hours.

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