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JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Description

Do you want to help our Company become a highly relevant company  – while opening the doors to exciting, international career opportunities for yourself? Do you dream of a job where you manage your own time, and where your efforts make a tangible difference to the lives of real people? Then you could be our colleague in Europe. We need you on our journey!

We have an exciting new job opportunity to oversee packaging projects in Europe and we are looking to hire an:

Associate Director, Packaging Equipment Engineering

Purpose of the role
The engineer is a technical staff member within Packaging Technical Operations, which provides packaging support to all products globally.  The focus of projects will involve packaging equipment, packaging processes and packaging controls at our internal and external sites globally.  Under general scientific and administrative direction, the engineer leverages experience gained on scientific/ technical/ business issues to lead project teams and technical staff.  The engineer will demonstrate knowledge, skills and abilities to optimize business, technical, and compliance processes.  The person in this position participates in high impact, complex cross-functional and cross-divisional teams and initiatives and provides leadership to achieve project goals.  Effective collaboration with teams is essential to meet the company’s goals/objectives.

This engineer will lead complex global and site projects.  These projects will include new packaging equipment purchases, packaging equipment moves, packaging sources changes, and packaging site support.

Welcome in our team

The Packaging Technology group is a Global above site team with members located all over the world.  The group consists of Packaging Center of Excellence and External Packaging support.  The center of excellence will include packaging equipment, packaging components, distribution and other SMEs.  Our organization will be on the cutting edge of equipment and technologies available for the advancement of packaging technology and improving the consumer experience.

This will include approximately 25-40% travel on average with occasional peaks to support these projects. The job can be performed from home with a home base throughout Europe.

You can be located at any European Organon location: Vienna, Brussels, Sofia, Prague, Munich, Madrid, Paris, London, Athens, Zagreb, Budapest, Dublin, Rome, Amsterdam, Oslo, Warsaw, Lisbon, Bucharest, Moscow, Belgrade, Bratislava, Ljubljana, Stockholm, Lucerne, Cramlington, Oss.

Main responsibilities

Main responsibilities

Technical Scope:

• Has a mastery of packaging scientific/technical concepts and techniques, applies and furthers those concepts and techniques to execute in pursuit of resolving scientific/technical packaging issues:


• Pioneers the application, sharing, and retention of cutting-edge techniques or processes, including those from other industries by providing leadership in Communities of Practice and other forums.

Science with a Strategic Business Focus:

• Ability to understand the bigger picture and business goals in order to ensure project success.


• Understands the criticality of securing early sponsorship and stakeholder alignment for projects and initiatives.


• Operates effectively as a leader of a project, or a key member of multiple small teams. 


• Makes informed cost/ benefit decisions based on analysis of inputs, outcomes, risk and likely return, and displays ownership.


• Demonstrates the necessary collaboration skills to integrate input and perspective from various sources and demonstrates ability to explain the decision and its implications to key stakeholders, and champions initiatives.


• Continuously develops skills in and routinely applies appropriate tools to measure and enhance functional and team performance.


• Utilizes packaging expertise to develop value added solutions to customer needs.


• Uses feedback to ensure that customer/stakeholder needs are the cornerstone of his/her decisions, expectations are met on a consistent basis, and works with a long-term perspective in addressing customer problems.

Culture and interactions with others:

• Actively supports and applies the various initiatives and goals of Organon Manufacturing and Supply Division and the company.


• Acts as a catalyst for change and stimulates others to change.


• Guides the reallocation of roles and responsibilities across team members to facilitate goal achievement and personal development.


• Contributes to developing technical skills in organization and builds high performance teams.


• Speaks/presents effectively to both internal and external audiences to influence change and build consensus.


• Continually improves communication systems and practices within and across teams/units/functions.


• Proactively reviews own performance and progress and seeks feedback from manager/peers/stakeholders to close gaps.


• Shows courage to provide candid, timely and tactful communication and feedback to others.


• Mentors and coaches less experienced engineers to develop talent in the department.

Your profile

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or similar; Mechanical Engineering, Packaging Science, Packaging Engineering, or similar


• 10+ years’ experience with packaging equipment. Interpersonal and leadership skills.


• Proven project leadership/ management and complex problem-solving skills. Ability to determine areas of potential risk to business success and generate gap analysis. 


• Significant experience with packaging operations support, packaging development, packaging materials, packaging equipment and packaging processes.


• Significant experience with current Good Manufacturing Practices, Pharmaceutical industry regulations, packaging equipment system life cycle and project management.


• Strong oral and written communication skills and demonstration of the Leadership Behaviors.


• Experience leading and enabling diverse teams.

What we offer

We welcome you to a truly global, dynamic and challenging environment with great opportunities for personal development. Our benefits are very competitive, and the summary below will give you an idea of what you can expect.

• Competitive salary;


• Attractive collective health care insurance package with considerable reduction rates;


• Solid Pension Plan;


• Annual bonus based on own and company performance


• Travel allowance


• Numerous training, coaching and e-learning modules for long term job opportunities and development

For questions about this vacancy

Please send an email including the vacancy number and job title to the following email address: RecruitmentNL@MSD.com

Applications can only be submitted via our website

Who we are …

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

We are driven by our purpose to develop and deliver innovative products that save and improve lives. With 69,000 employees operating in more than 140 countries, we offer state of the art laboratories, plants and offices that are designed to Inspire our employees as we learn, develop and grow in our careers. We are proud of our 125 years of service to humanity and continue to be one of the world’s biggest investors in Research & Development.

What we look for …

In a world of rapid innovation, we seek brave Inventors who want to make an Impact in all aspects of our business, enabling breakthroughs that will affect generations to come. We encourage you to bring your disruptive thinking, collaborative spirit and diverse perspective to our organization. Together we will continue Inventing For Life, Impacting Lives while Inspiring Your Career Growth.

INVENT.

IMPACT.

INSPIRE.

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

25%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Shift:

Valid Driving License:

Hazardous Material(s):

Number of Openings:

1

Requisition ID:OR000010C