Packaging Engineer: Sustainable Design & Validation

novabio; Billerica (MA); Hybrid; USD 102,000 - 113,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Medical, Dental, & Vision

Competitive 401k match

Bonus Program

Generous PTO and holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Hybrid and flexible work arrangements

Professional development

Company marketplace for lunch and snal

Cafeteria in MA offices

Job summary

Nova Biomedical is seeking a Packaging Engineer to lead design, validation, and continuous improvement of packaging solutions across our manufacturing facilities. You will drive standardization, cost reduction, and sustainability while ensuring regulatory compliance and product protection in a fast-paced environment.

The role requires cross-functional collaboration with operations, quality, procurement, and suppliers, and focuses on ship testing, qualify/validate, and packaging optimization

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant packaging experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead packaging design, qualification, and validation activities including ship testing, drop testing, vibration testing, and cold chain validation.
• Drive packaging standardization initiatives across product portfolios to improve consistency, quality, and operational efficiency, including packaging designs, engineering drawings, labeling, and specifications.
• Identify and implement packaging cost reduction opportunities through design optimization, material selection, process improvements, and standardization efforts while maintaining product protection and regulatory compliance.
• Investigate and assess shipping damage incidents, performing root cause analysis and recommending corrective and preventive actions to improve packaging performance and product integrity.
• Collaborate with Supplier Quality Engineering (SQE) to resolve supplier-related quality and packaging issues, including participation in supplier assessments, audits, and continuous improvement initiatives as required.
• Serve as an internal subject matter expert (SME) for sustainable packaging solutions, including emerging trends and technologies related to reusable, recyclable, biodegradable, and environmentally responsible packaging materials and systems.
• Support organizational compliance with the European Union Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (EU Regulation 2025/40) by contributing to packaging strategy, design requirements, documentation, and implementation activities.

Job description

Nova Biomedical is seeking a Packaging Engineer to lead design, validation, and continuous improvement of packaging solutions across our manufacturing facilities. You will drive standardization, cost reduction, and sustainability while ensuring regulatory compliance and product protection in a fast-paced environment.

The role requires cross-functional collaboration with operations, quality, procurement, and suppliers, and focuses on ship testing, qualify/validate, and packaging optimization