Packaging Engineer

About the Role

Siemens Healthineers is a leading global medical technology company.

Key Responsibilities

• Design of packaging for components, spare parts and systems for worldwide shipping.
• Implementation of optimization and productivity projects in the environment of the Global Package Engineering Center.
• Computer-aided development of product-specific packaging under consideration of regulatory, logistical, and technological requirements, including documentation for production and packaging service providers.
• Specify, organize, schedule, execute, evaluate, and analyze transport simulation tests.
• Implementation of global and local regulatory requirements, especially Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC.
• Determination of costs and savings for packaging materials and packaging services.
• Technical advice for internal and external partners, e.g., for delivered packages by external suppliers.
• Coordination of global packaging activities within Healthcare.
• Assessment of transport damage and initiation of measures.
• Consulting, implementation, and evaluation of technical transport monitoring.
• Project management of redesign and analysis projects.
• Analyses of packaging lifecycle (packaging, transport, reloading, up to end customer) --> Deriving fields of action / needs / potentials.
• Participation in process design for global packaging development processes.
• Cooperation in the conception and implementation of global packaging "Baukasten”.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• University degree: Bachelor/Master in Mechatronics or Mechanical Engineering.
• Experience in the development of medical product packaging.
• Experience in cross-disciplinary task processing.
• Knowledge of Healthineers products and processes.
• Excellent knowledge of various packaging technologies and packaging materials.
• Good knowledge of country-specific regulatory requirements and global standards (e.g., Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC, IEC60721-3-2, ISTA, ASTM, PPWR).