Internship in Packaging Engineering for 9 to 12 months

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The Position

In Dtech (Distribution Technology), we deliver innovative, sustainable, and efficient distribution technologies to bring life-changing medicine safely to all patients. The Dtech team provides technical expertise, project leadership, and network alignment for the sourcing, development, qualification, and implementation of global logistic monitoring solutions/IoT, thermal shipping systems as well as tertiary packaging.

As a packaging engineer intern will work on a variety of packaging initiatives, contributing to the qualification of global packaging solutions for clinical and commercial use.

In this role you will practice and strengthen the following skills: Work effectively on cross-functional/ geographically diverse teams, and establish strong collaborative relationships with different stakeholders: Supply Chain, Quality, and Procurement. Improve ability to communicate, present, and influence. Gain Technical expertise in the thermal shipping system qualification process. Gain expertise in sustainability.

• Technical Writing: Develop, review, and finalize qualification documents, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and completeness.
• Compliance Support: Ensure that processes and documentation align with regulatory and internal compliance standards GSP091.
• Template Improvement: Work on improving templates (Qualification Summary Reports), PQ protocols, and Reports, and apply these templates to existing thermal shipping systems.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate with supply chain, procurement, sites, and partner departments to gather necessary information and perspectives.
• Documentation Management: Maintain organized records of all qualification documents and ensure they are readily accessible in eVal.
• Continuous Improvement: Suggest and implement improvements to the document creation and management process.
• Communication: Support the team's efforts to communicate project impact to the organization.

You are enrolled in a bachelor’s or a master's program in package engineering, materials science, mechanical, chemical, or similar or you've completed your studies within the last 12 months.

You have initial experience with and, above all, a strong desire to further develop your capabilities in:

• Thermal shipping Systems, Packaging materials, and processes.
• Packaging regulations, industry standards, and test methods (e.g. DIN/ISO, USP, FDA, and ISTA/ASTM).
• Author technical documentation.
• Excellent organizational skills and interpersonal communication skills.
• English language proficiency required; knowledge of German an asset.

Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Basel is the headquarters of the Roche Group and one of its most important centres of pharmaceutical research. Over 10,700 employees from over 100 countries come together at our Basel/Kaiseraugst site, which is one of Roche's largest sites.

Besides extensive development and training opportunities, we offer flexible working options, 18 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks of gender independent partnership leave. Our employees also benefit from multiple services on site such as child-care facilities, medical services, restaurants and cafeterias, as well as various employee events.

We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion, and strive to identify and create opportunities that enable all people to bring their unique selves to Roche.