Packaging Engineer

Haleon plc.; Guayama (PR); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Tuition reimbursement

Parental leave

Job summary

Haleon in Guayama, Puerto Rico seeks an experienced Packaging Engineer to lead advanced process solutions in packaging, ensuring alignment with customer needs, technology management objectives and regulatory standards.

You will drive packaging process qualifications and validations, troubleshoot complex issues, and lead cross-functional projects with limited supervision to deliver compliant, high-quality consumer products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering required.
• Experience in packaging processes and pharmaceutical manufacturing.
• Strong project management and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities and develop quality, yield, or compliance improvements for packaging.
• Implement packaging processes and technologies for new products and changes to existing processes.
• Identify and implement packaging process improvements.
• Generate and execute qualification/validation protocols.
• Provide technical support to packaging areas for quality issues.
• Support readiness for regulatory audits and commitments.
• Develop and execute validation strategies for new packaging processes.
• Ensure timely completion of action items for packaging tech transfer.
• Identify and implement packaging improvements in new processes and configurations.
• Actively participate in regulatory inspections.

Skills

Project management

Teamwork

Communication

Education

BS Engineering

Tools

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

About the role

Applies advanced technical process solutions in packaging technology and process, ensuring priorities are aligned with customer needs, technology management objectives, company goals and government regulations. Implements new packaging technologies for the Site. Leads all the packaging process qualifications and validations. The incumbent must be capable of leading cross-functional projects with some direct involvement from their supervisor. Troubleshoots and resolves moderate to highly complex packaging process issues diagnosing technical problems and determining short- and long-term solutions. Packaging projects must achieve business, quality, and compliance objectives, and must be executed in a manner that assures full compliance with government regulations and internal company standards and values.

Role Responsibilities

• Identifies opportunities and contributes to the development of solutions for quality process improvements, yield, efficiency, profitability or compliance improvements related to packaging process.
• Implementation of packaging process and technologies for new products and to changes to the existing packaging process.
• Identification and implementation of packaging process improvements.
• Generate, execute qualification / validation protocols.
• Provides the Technical support to packaging areas for quality issues.
• Provides the Technical support to packaging areas to improve line efficiency.
• Actively support readiness for Regulatory audits and meeting commitments from such audits
• Develops and executes Validation Strategies for new packaging processes and configurations
• Completion on time of action items for Packaging Tech Transfer of consumer products
• Identification & implementation of packaging improvements in new processes, new packaging configurations and new products.
• Active participation in Regulatory inspections

Basic Qualifications:

• BS Engineering required (Industrial, Mechanical or Electrical).
• Willing to operate on weekends.
• 8+ years of experience in pharmaceutical industries.

Preferred Qualifications

• Project management, organization, and teamwork skills.
• /interpersonal and communication skills (teamwork, effective negotiation, resolution of problems, decision making, critical aptitude, ability to interact with personnel from other areas, other disciplines and with external personnel (technical advisers, system providers, consultants for systems, among others)
• Language: English & Spanish, good oral and written level.
• Computer Tools: Word, Excel, Power Point intermediate level.

Benefits

Haleon offers a robust Total Reward package that consists of competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits program. This includes a generous 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement and time off programs including 6 months paid parental leave. On day one, you are eligible for benefits, including our healthcare programs where the company pays for the majority of your medical coverage for you and your family. We also offer the opportunity to receive a discretionary bonus based on the achievement of key business performance and other incentive/recognition programs as part of the offering.

Job Posting End Date

2026-10-05

Equal Opportunities

Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture, where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected - all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. It’s important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.

During the application process, we may ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. This information ensures we meet certain regulatory and reporting obligations and supports the development, refinement, and execution of our inclusion and belonging programmes that are open to all Haleon employees.

The personal information you provide will be kept confidential, used only for legitimate business purposes, and will never be used in making any employment decisions, including hiring decisions.

Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, Haleon may be required to capture and report expenses Haleon incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure Haleon’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements.

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Note to candidates

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