Associate Principal Engineer - Packaging Design

Are you ready to make a significant impact on patients' lives? As an Associate Principal Engineer of Packaging Design, you will be at the forefront of planning, designing, and developing packaging materials. Your expertise will ensure the safe manufacture, storage, and transport of our life-changing drug products throughout their lifecycle. Join us in optimizing packaging for product protection, security, and sustainability.

Accountabilities:

In this role, you will help AstraZeneca biologics operations achieve best-in-class packaging solutions. You will be responsible for planning, designing, developing, qualifying, transferring, and supporting the manufacturing of packaged products. Your work will align with business needs and comply with laws and regulations throughout a product’s lifecycle.

Essential Skills/Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field.
- Minimum of 5+ years of significant engineering or operational experience.
- Excellent problem-solving abilities.
- Strong interpersonal, organizational, collaboration, and communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to progress a packaging project from inception to commercialization including packaging materials, designs and manufacturing processes, qualification, validation and systems.
- Experience designing packages with auto-CAD for secondary packaging systems for vials and combination products (accessorized pre-filled syringes, auto-injectors), and tertiary systems.
- Experience in designing shipping qualification studies (real and simulated with accelerometers).
- Experience in transferring and supporting assembly, label and pack production.
- Knowledge of current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs), packaging laws, regulations, and guidance, and experience authoring quality management system (QMS) documents: change controls, CAPAs (Corrective Actions / Preventive Actions) and deviations.
- Authoring study protocols and reports, specifications, SOPs, batch records, etc.

Desirable Skills/Experience:
- Experience in device combination products packaging and assembly.

AstraZeneca offers an environment where innovation thrives. With constant new products and launches, we are at the cutting edge of science and manufacturing. Our team is united by a common goal to succeed, continuously seeking new ways to deliver medicines to patients. We embrace challenges as opportunities to learn and grow. Here, you will find a dynamic environment that encourages collaboration and rewards ideas.

Ready to make a difference? Join us in shaping the future of healthcare. Apply today!

The annual base pay (or hourly rate of compensation) for this position ranges from $114,0947.60 to $171,146.40 Hourly and salaried non-exempt employees will also be paid overtime pay when working qualifying overtime hours. Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition, our positions offer a short-term incentive bonus opportunity; eligibility to participate in our equity-based long-term incentive program (salaried roles), to receive a retirement contribution (hourly roles), and commission payment eligibility (sales roles). Benefits offered included a qualified retirement program [401(k) plan]; paid vacation and holidays; paid leaves; and, health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans. Additional details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base pay (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors

Date Posted

18-Nov-2025

Closing Date

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorisation and employment eligibility verification requirements.