NHS Human Services, Inc.

Your Opportunity as the Senior Technician-Packaging Laboratory, Pet Research & Development The Packaging Laboratory testing technician role is an important role supporting our package and product development technical work in Pet Research & Development (R&D), with a secondary support for the other SBA packaging R&D teams . This position is responsible for organizing, communicating, and facilitating packaging and product testing in the packaging lab and CT chamber activities within Pet R&D. This includes managing test requests, testing and documentation, inventory receiving and system accountability, recycling and disposal of materials after testing is completed, continued training on test methods and packaging equipment operation and maintenance. The role also involves collaborating and documenting standard operating process on all packaging equipment including safety practices and prevention. In addition to these responsibilities, this role will be ordering of all common Packaging materials to support packaging projects related to the packaging lab, testing and support line trial shipments from outside manufacturing facilities to Jarrett Distribution and to the Discovery building. The role will also manage the package testing, evaluation and documentation, ensuring compliance with key element policies and other critical parameters needed by the packaging team. The Packaging laboratory technician will directly support the Pet packaging staff and as available capacity exists, may support packaging lab testing requests from the other JMS packaging SBA's. A smaller but very important role will be maintaining the packaging laboratory operating budget with the Packaging Manager, scheduling preventative maintenance and repairs for all packaging lab equipment. Weekly oversight of packaging laboratory housekeeping, trash and recycle disposal will also be a requirement of this role. Location: Orrville, OH Corporate Offices In this role you will: Packaging component ordering: Oversee the ordering of all common test packaging components, ensuring compliance with corporate policies. Review and maintain purchase orders within company policies. Evaluate all SDS for raw materials used in the packaging lab annually. Internal & External Pet Storage: Facilitate shipments to/from with Jarrett with shipping coordinator. Keep storage areas organized, including pallet movement. Maintain inventory of internal storage by using CisPro (inventory traceability system) and pallet tagging system for Dock 7, and Pet R&D Packaging lab items. Collaborate with R&D personnel who have storage needs/issues. Daily & monthly housekeeping. Organize & coordinate clean-outs as needed. Maintain Common Packaging Lab Supply: Maintain adequate supply of common packaging testing items, stock packaging materials as identified by the packaging teams, and other items as needed. Recognize and report questionable condition/defective materials to the supervisor. Monitor periodically the North Packaging lab for proper disposal of materials and movement of stored pallets and materials on benchtop. Lead and Perform Packaging Performance Testing for the Pet Team: Align with scope of testing being requested for packaging testing with the Engineer. Prepare and stage testing. Properly set up and monitor testing, collecting key documentation throughout. Once testing is complete, collect and document the results and share with the engineer. Acquire & maintain proper training to support ISTA lab testing/certification and SIOC testing methods and submission (if required) proper documentation to certify results. Testing Support for the Packaging Community: When available, support carrying out testing needs for the other SBA's that require specific use of equipment or testing knowledge. The Engineer who requests the testing will complete proper documentation and any necessary reports. Ma