Package Engineer

Position Summary

Catalent is a global, high-growth, public company and a leading partner for the pharmaceutical industry in the development and manufacturing of new treatments for patients worldwide. Your talents, ideas, and passion are essential to our mission: to help people live better, healthier lives.  

Catalent’s Kansas City facility is home to our Oral & Specialty Drug Delivery, Biologics Analytical Services and Clinical Supply Services businesses. The site provides a range of integrated services for oral solid dosage forms, from formulation development and analytical testing to clinical and commercial-scale manufacture.  The Kansas City facility is a Center-of-Excellence for our Biologics Analytical Services business. Our talented team has over 25 years of experience providing analytical services for stand-alone and integrated biologics projects.

Catalent Pharma Solutions in Kansas City, MO is hiring a Package Engineer role. The Package Engineer supports both clinical and commercial operations.  Duties include interfacing with clients to establish packaging requirements for projects, providing support for BD & Proposals for project scope and pricing, and working with vendors to design packaging components to meet customer/study requirements. This includes but is not limited to functional label & carton design; selection of vendor solutions for unit dose cards; designing format parts and package designs for blistering; bottle size selection, CR/SF testing, and container/closure system selection for bottling; and desiccant recommendations. This position requires knowledge and experience in child resistant package design requirements, thermoforming/cold-forming processes, and materials used for packaging integrity.

This is a full-time position: Salary Role. Onsite. Monday – Friday, Days.

Catalent is committed to a Patient First culture through excellence in quality and compliance, and to the safety of every patient, consumer, and Catalent employee. 

The Role  

Interface with clients to establish packaging requirements, attend client meetings and provide package technical support to clients

Establish packaging requirements for projects, such as closure system selection, Blister Format part/tooling evaluation & development and perform label adhesion testing/Child Resistance evaluations

Attend project management project kickoff meetings. Provide support for project scope & pricing

Design packaging components to meet customer/study requirements, functional design of Secondary components (cartons/inserts/pouches/wallets/etc.), determine design appropriate for Primary components (film/foil/desiccants/coil/bottles/closures/printed lidding/etc.); container/closure systems. Work with vendors directly to establish the design and negotiate pricing, when necessary

Provide engineering consultation to internal customers, as requested

Assist with building and maintaining the blister format library. Assist/facilitate execution and documentation of FAT & SAT of new blister package formats

Provide required GMP documentation to support writing and executing of batch records

Support Complaint & Deviation investigations and root cause analysis

Stay appraised of development within the Packaging industry

All other duties as assigned; 

The Candidate 

Required a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering with a minimum of 2 years of of experience with GMP equipment/package design/tooling for clinical and/or commercial packaging.

Knowledge of thermoforming/cold-forming equipment and experience in child resistant package design requirements is required

working knowledge of the following software packages: Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Visio), TOPS Pro (Total Optimization Packaging System) or similar software program, Solid Works and/or Artios CAD, Adobe Illustrator highly preferred

Possess good communication and problem-solving skills highly desired

Individual may be required to sit, stand, walk regularly and occasionally lift up to 30 pounds

Occasional requirement to work in Extreme Cold Refrigerator 35°F – 46°F (2°C – 8°C) Freezer -4°F (-20°C)

Why you should join Catalent:

Defined career path and annual performance review and feedback process 

Diverse, inclusive culture 

Positive working environment focusing on continually improving processes to remain innovative

Potential for career growth on an expanding team within an organization dedicated to preserving and bettering lives 

152 hours of PTO + 8 paid holidays

Several Employee Resource Groups focusing on D&I

Dynamic, fast-paced work environment

Community engagement and green initiatives 

Generous 401K match 

Medical, dental and vision benefits effective day one of employment 

Tuition Reimbursement - Let us help you finish your degree or start a new degree!

WellHub- program to promote overall physical wellness 

Perkspot - offers exclusive or private discounts from approximately 900+ merchants in a wide array of categories

Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career!  Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference. 

personal initiative. dynamic pace. meaningful work.

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Catalent is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veterans.

If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability, you may submit your request by sending an email, and confirming your request for an accommodation and include the job number, title and location to DisabilityAccommodations@catalent.com. This option is reserved for individuals who require accommodation due to a disability. Information received will be processed by a U.S. Catalent employee and then routed to a local recruiter who will provide assistance to ensure appropriate consideration in the application or hiring process.

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