Senior Packaging Quality Lead — Pharma Compliance

Becton, Dickinson and Company; El Paso (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Becton, Dickinson and Company is seeking a Packaging Quality Lead to oversee pharmaceutical packaging operations, ensuring compliance with master records and cGMP requirements. The role emphasizes real-time quality oversight, line start-up and changeover, labeling, and coding controls.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in pharmaceutical packaging quality, experience with FDA inspections, and strong leadership skills to drive CAPA effectiveness and continuous improvement on the packaging floor.

Qualifications

• Bachelor-level technical degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• Experience in pharmaceutical/medical device packaging quality.
• Experience supporting FDA or health-authority inspections is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide independent, real-time Quality oversight of pharmaceutical packaging operations and controlled areas.
• Ensure packaging activities comply with master packaging records, procedures, specs, and cGMP requirements.
• Oversee packaging line setup, start-up, changeover, in-process checks, sampling, reconciliation, and line closeout.
• Verify labeling, coding, and vision-system controls are accurate and documented.
• Drive quality presence on the packaging floor and manage deviations and CAPAs.
• Serve as Packaging Quality SME during internal and regulatory audits and inspections.

Skills

QA Oversight

cGMP compliance

Regulatory inspections

Leadership

Quality Systems

Root Cause Analysis

Data-Driven Decisions

Cross-functional collab

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, Pharmacy, Packaging, or related

Master's degree preferred

Tools

SAP

Electronic QMS

Manufacturing Systems

Vision-system applications

Job description

Becton, Dickinson and Company is seeking a Packaging Quality Lead to oversee pharmaceutical packaging operations, ensuring compliance with master records and cGMP requirements. The role emphasizes real-time quality oversight, line start-up and changeover, labeling, and coding controls.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in pharmaceutical packaging quality, experience with FDA inspections, and strong leadership skills to drive CAPA effectiveness and continuous improvement on the packaging floor.