Engineering Tech Lead

Location: New Albany, OH - onsite required

Duration:24 months+

Starts:Early December 2026

Experience

Required:

8-10 years

Industry Requirement: Just pharma packaging equipment.

Engineering Tech Lead to provide technical and engineering leadership and oversight for the design, development, implementation, qualification, and lifecycle management of pharmaceutical device assembly, labeling, and secondary and tertiary packaging process equipment.

Pharmaceutical Device Assembly & Packaging Equipment

In this role the Engineering Tech Lead is responsible for providing technical and engineering leadership and oversight for the design, development, implementation, qualification, operational readiness, and sustained manufacturing support.

This role requires deep technical expertise in pharmaceutical manufacturing and packaging technologies, combined with demonstrated industry experience delivering complex automation and equipment projects in a highly regulated environment.

The Tech Lead will lead high-visibility, cross-functional engineering initiatives from early concept and technology selection through design, equipment development, integration, qualification, operational readiness, and sustained manufacturing support.

The position requires a leader who can operate effectively at both the technical detail and strategic program level, challenge equipment designs and technical decisions, manage complex project risks, influence stakeholders, and drive issues to resolution.

• Provide technical leadership for device assembly, labeling, secondary packaging, and tertiary packaging equipment and automation systems.
• Lead the assessment, selection, design, development, implementation, and lifecycle management of process technologies and equipment.
• Develop equipment and automation strategies that support manufacturing reliability, product quality, operational efficiency, flexibility, and long-term technology standardization.
• Provide technical direction through equipment concept development, design reviews, detailed engineering, equipment build, testing, installation, commissioning, qualification, and operational ramp-up.
• Critically review equipment architecture, automation concepts, control strategies, material flow, product handling, inspection systems, and machine interfaces.
• Apply strong engineering fundamentals and industry knowledge to identify technical risks early and develop effective mitigation strategies.
• Drive technical problem solving and structured root-cause analysis for complex equipment, automation, process, and reliability issues.
• Establish and promote engineering standards and best practices for equipment design, technology selection, maintainability, reliability, and lifecycle management.

The successful candidate should have demonstrated experience with technologies associated with pharmaceutical combination-product/device assembly and packaging, including several of the following:

• Automated and semi-automated medical device assembly
• Cartoning and case packing
• Product and component feeding and handling systems
• Label application and verification
• Serialization and track-and-trace technologies
• Vision and inspection systems
• Printing, coding, and marking systems
• Leaflet and booklet feeding
• Robotics and material handling
• Conveyance and product-transfer systems
• Secondary and tertiary packaging automation
• PLC/HMI and industrial automation systems
• Equipment data acquisition and manufacturing system interfaces

• Lead complex, high-visibility engineering and capital equipment projects involving multiple functions, suppliers, technologies, and manufacturing stakeholders.
• Translate product, process, business, and regulatory requirements into clear equipment and engineering requirements.
• Lead equipment projects through key phases including concept development, user requirements, specification, supplier selection, design reviews, FAT, SAT, commissioning, qualification, and production readiness.
• Own technical project execution while proactively managing scope, schedule, technical risk, interfaces, dependencies, and critical decisions.
• Establish clear escalation paths and communicate project status, technical risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Ensure technical decisions are documented and supported by appropriate engineering rationale and risk assessment.

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