# Packaging Material And Equipment Technologist - 24 Months Secondment / FTC

**Company**: GSK
**Location**: Worthing
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Packaging Material and Equipment Technologist will provide hands-on technical delivery for packaging activities within the Worthing Site Packaging Project.

Responsibilities:

- Deliver packaging material and equipment activities: plan and complete assigned material, component and equipment-interface activities for primary, secondary and tertiary packaging

- Assess material–equipment interactions: evaluate how material properties, tolerances, pack design and print or coding requirements affect forming, sealing, feeding, handling, coding, vision inspection and cartoning

- Plan trials and deliver validation: develop and execute trial, qualification and validation protocols for packaging materials, pack formats and equipment interfaces

- Manage technical risk and problem solving: lead or contribute to technical risk assessments, FMEA, transit assessments where applicable

- Maintain specifications, artwork and technical documentation: create, review and update component specifications, drawings, artwork briefs, master data, protocols, reports and change-control records

- Coordinate technical interfaces and suppliers: work cross-functionally and with material, component and equipment suppliers to resolve technical questions

Requirements:

- Relevant technical background: degree-level qualification, or strong equivalent experience, in packaging, materials science, engineering or another relevant scientific or technical discipline

- Packaging materials and equipment-interface expertise: knowledge of primary, secondary and tertiary packaging materials, component manufacture and printing techniques

- Qualification, validation and technical trials: demonstrated experience planning, executing, analysing and reporting material, process or equipment trials, qualification and validation

- Risk assessment and evidence-based problem solving: experience applying Quality by Design, FMEA, root-cause analysis and technical risk assessment

- Specifications, artwork and compliance: experience creating or updating packaging specifications, technical drawings, artwork inputs and controlled records through formal change control

## Skills

### Required
- packaging materials
- equipment-interface expertise
- qualification
- validation
- technical trials
- risk assessment
- problem solving
- specifications
- artwork
- compliance

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