Packaging Technical Support Placement

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Packaging Technical Support Placement

This is an opportunity to join our dedicated and talented team within the Manufacturing Unit for 12 months at our site in Cramlington, Northumberland as a placement student and help build a strong foundation for success in your future.

At MSD placement students can gain experience within a team comprising individuals from many backgrounds with different roles, but all working together to deliver on the same promise: finding new ways to create a healthier future. Uncompromising dedication to the people who depend on our products is a passion we all share.

The Packaging + Bulk IPT functions work closely with the wider business to deliver innovative, standardised operational processes.

Key Objectives and Responsibilities

• To support the Packaging + Bulk IPT in the delivery of reliable compliant supply of pharmaceutical products
• To support production coaches, engineers and scientists within the IPT(s) on a day-to-day basis regarding all aspects of the manufacturing and technical support functions
• To provide technical support for all processes involved in running of the IPT.
• To implement improvement projects as directed by IPT Production and/or technical Lead
• To support investigations and follow up issues arising from safety incidents, deviations or customer complaints, establishing assignable causes for events and proposing appropriate actions to minimise rework and improve processes.
• To participate as directed Continuous Improvement projects to realise improvements in Safety, Quality, Supply or Cost
• To comply with the standards in MSD policies, procedures, guidelines and SOPs.

Key Capabilities /Skills

• Ability to communicate accurately both verbally and in writing
• Strong organisation and project management skills
• Strong numerical and analytical ability
• Team player, learning from and helping others overcome challenges
• Proactive and confident
• Uses initiative to ensure active processes are efficient
• A self-starter who can work independently
• Strong sense of urgency, takes the initiative
• Has a can do attitude, anticipates problems and proposes solutions, approaches work challenges
• creatively with innovative ideas
• Listens and adapts to improve
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft packages (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Education and Experience

• On course for a minimum 2:1 relevant degree (Chemical/Engineering/pharmaceutical/Manufacturing)
• Penultimate year of study, returning to your degree course at the end of the placement

Your role at MSD is integral to helping the world meet new breakthroughs that affect generations to come, and we’re counting on your skills and inventiveness to help make meaningful contributions to global medical advancement. At MSD, we’re inventing for life.

Next Steps

• Stage 1 - Fill in our online application form and submit your CV
• Stage 2 - If successful at stage 1, you will be invited to take part in an online test
• Stage 3 - If successful at stage 2, you will be invited to a telephone interview
• Stage 4 (12th December.) - And finally, if you’ve impressed us through Stages 1 -3, we’ll invite you to an assessment centre where you will take part in a variety of activities and have the opportunity to gain a better insight into MSD

Successful applicants will have the opportunity to meet fellow students before commencing the placement and will partake in a two week handover period at the beginning of their placement with the current student.

About MSD

MSD is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. The difference between potential and achievement lies in the spark that fuels innovation and inventiveness; this is the space where MSD has codified its 125-year legacy. MSD’s success is backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.

MSD Manufacturing Division, MMD, is a team of dedicated, energetic individuals who are committed to being the most trusted supplier of pharmaceuticals and health products worldwide. Our facilities, along with our external contractors, suppliers, and partners, comprise an interdependent global manufacturing network that’s committed to delivering a compliant, reliable supply to customers and patients on time, every time, across the globe.

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