Sustainable Packaging Engineer - Remote

 

Dentsply Sirona is the world’s largest manufacturer of professional dental products and technologies, with a 130-year history of innovation and service to the dental industry and patients worldwide. Dentsply Sirona develops, manufactures, and markets a comprehensive solutions offering including dental and oral health products as well as other consumable medical devices under a strong portfolio of world class brands. Dentsply Sirona’s products provide innovative, high-quality and effective solutions to advance patient care and deliver better and safer dentistry. Dentsply Sirona’s global headquarters is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. The company’s shares are listed in the United States on NASDAQ under the symbol XRAY.

 

Bringing out the best in people

 

As advanced as dentistry is today, we are dedicated to making it even better. Our people have a passion for innovation and are committed to applying it to improve dental care. We live and breathe high performance, working as one global team, bringing out the best in each other for the benefit of dental patients, and the professionals who serve them. If you want to grow and develop as a part of a team that is shaping an industry, then we’re looking for the best to join us.

 

Working at Dentsply Sirona you are able to:

 

Develop faster - with our commitment to the best professional development.

 

Perform better - as part of a high-performance, empowering culture.

 

Shape an industry - with a market leader that continues to drive innovation.

 

Make a difference -by helping improve oral health worldwide.  

 

 

Sustainable Packaging Engineer

 

THIS POSITION CAN BE LOCATED REMOTELY, OR IN ANY DS LOCATION IN EUROPE OR AMERICA

 

Job Scope:

Dentsply Sirona is a leading healthcare medical device company committed to innovation, sustainability, and improving dental care. As part of our commitment to sustainability, we are seeking a highly skilled Packaging Design and Development Engineer to drive and design the implementation of innovative sustainable packaging solutions for our dental equipment and consumable products. This individual will be responsible for developing protocols for package design, packaging process validation, and package shelf-life testing. They will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and outside suppliers to drive new packaging technologies and strategies, with a focus on improving time to market, cost, environmental impact and advancing brand image.

 

Job Responsibilities:

• Apply packaging material knowledge to design innovative primary, secondary and tertiary packaging concepts for new and existing products replacing non-recyclable materials, optimizing material thickness, utilizing approved board grades--following the company’s sustainable packaging design guidelines
• Develop protocols for package design, packaging process validation, and package shelf-life testing for external laboratory testing and in alignment with necessary and compliance change control impact assessment criteria
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and outside suppliers to drive new packaging technologies and strategies to advance and accelerate especially our CTS, IPS and OAS GBUs to improve recyclability of plastics and find alternate bio-plastics solutions.
• Work closely with packaging equipment and manufacturing engineering staff to ensure newly selected recyclable materials are ready for validation and ensure a high-success rate for product compatibility, sterility, and customer/brand acceptance.
• Collaborate with sourcing team to evaluate new material and supplier choices, recommend new material specifications for sourcing strategy exploration and deeper testing including business case development input for longer term category strategy updates.
• Provide guidance for changes to R&D engineer, Industrial Engineering, Marketing and New Product Development teams for alternate compliant material choices.
• Work with testing labs to ensure appropriate product safety and compliance is met in accordance with medical device packaging regulatory requirements.
• Provide expert guidance and rationale for conducting appropriate compatibility testing, following a risk-based approach, utilize statistical techniques and expertise for packaging analysis and validation.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including R&D, Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs, and Manufacturing, to ensure that packaging systems meet regulatory requirements and industry standards.
• Leads integrated innovation workshops with suppliers and internal teams to create future state sustainable packaging concepts.
• Use appropriate lifecycle assess