R&D Packaging Engineer Intern

About the role

The R&D Packaging Engineer Intern will assist in performing original packaging design and testing over a broad range of technologies to provide new or improved products to the medical device market in the arena of Interventional Urology. This person will act as technical support for interdepartmental development teams to fulfill business goals of Coloplast for new and existing product packaging and labeling.

Key responsibilities

• Complete relevant tasks to fulfill major milestones, identifying processing parameters, materials, equipment, and requirements of new product packaging/labeling and initial process optimization.
• Specify, design, verify and validate packaging in accordance with applicable medical regulatory standards.
• Perform original design under guidance of project engineers/scientists, develop packaging specifications, conduct DOEs, validation protocols/reports and other documentation following design control requirements.
• Coordinate and execute packaging and labeling changes in support of sustaining projects.
• Participate in hands‑on problem solving and resolution.
• Obtain and maintain all necessary information and experimental test results related to assigned projects.

Required profile

• Pursuing a BS in Packaging Engineering.
• Undergraduate student (completed junior level or higher) with successful completion of basic engineering coursework.
• Experience working with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Working knowledge of packaging equipment.
• Working knowledge of packaging materials and supplier processes.
• Ability to develop test protocols and synthesize data to write test reports.
• Familiarity with statistical analysis (e.g., two‑sample t‑test, tolerance limit calculation).

Required skills

• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Microsoft Outlook
• Packaging equipment operation
• Packaging material knowledge
• Test protocol development
• Statistical analysis (t‑test, tolerance limit calculation)
• Design of Experiments (DOE)