Title:  Senior Packing Technologist

Role Details

Senior Packaging Technologist

Role: Full-time, permanent

Location: Fawdon, Newcastle

Salary: Competitive + bonus + benefits

The Role

Support the development of the Fawdon facility by managing projects and leading cross functional teams for the introduction of new products, materials, processes and technologies, ensuring compliance, business and stakeholder requirements are understood and met.

• Work collaboratively with project teams to ensure packaging requirements are understood and accounted for in scopes for R&D and Transfer projects.
• Develop and implement appropriate solutions to enable processing of new and existing products at the Fawdon facility; both high volume and high margin products
• Perform root cause analysis for compliance failures and performance issues, supporting the packing engineering and operational teams to reach acceptable outcomes
• Participate in early phase design of products and projects, providing input for business cases and feasibility assessments across the business.
• Technical creation and approval of new artwork/ design
• Undertake departmental risk assessments
• Maintain and review department SOP’s and Work instructions
• Maintain database and analyse production data covering a full product range as well as assisting the creation of tooling data sheets to assist operators to understand tooling requirements

The Person

• Demonstrable experience in a GMP and/ or FMCG environment
• Educated to GCSE level including English and Maths
• Cross functional team worker, builder and leader
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written English)
• Technical protocol and report writing experience
• Strong skills in MS office suite
• Experience with Pharmaceutical material suppliers preferred
• Project management experience
• Experience in handling new packaging introduction activities
• Experience of change control systems

The Rewards

In return, we offer a competitive salary and rewards package (including holiday, bonus and pension scheme). Not to mention the opportunity to genuinely make a difference in a new and dynamic role within a progressive and expanding business, at an exciting time of growing international reach.

How to Apply

If you possess the experience, passion and ability to make this role a success then we would like to hear from you. Please complete your Candidate Profile on our careers site to apply for this role. The closing date is 19/05/24. For more information, you can contact us on: careers@accord-healthcare.com

A Bit About Us

Accord Healthcare Europe is one of the fastest growing pharmaceutical companies in Europe. Accord has one of the largest market footprints of any European generic and biosimilars companies selling generic medicines in over 80 countries around the world. This global footprint enables us to deliver vital, affordable medicines to national health systems supporting healthcare professionals to transform patient lives worldwide. The approach of Accord is agile and inventive, always seeking to improve products and patients' access to them. Accord are driven to think differently and deliver more for the benefit of patients worldwide.

To continue our growth, we’re looking for the best and brightest technical minds and forward-thinking business professionals. Keeping our people at the heart of all we do, we offer rewarding opportunities for those looking for continued personal and professional growth, investing in training and development tailored to each individual’s focus. So, if you’re looking for an inclusive company to take your career to the next level, you’re certainly in the right place; come and join us to make it better.

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