Sr Packaging Engineer

Company Description Job Description

Schedule: Work from home Monday and Friday; onsite Tuesday–Thursday (required).

What the Client Is Looking For: An experienced Senior Packaging Engineer with 7+ years of experience developing and improving packaging solutions in manufacturing, food, consumer products, or related industries.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, test, validate, and launch new packaging solutions.
• Strong expertise in plastic injection molding, mold design, and tooling.
• Experience with flexible packaging, paperboard, corrugated packaging, and labels.
• Manage packaging specifications, BOMs, testing, and validation.
• Improve packaging quality, production efficiency, sustainability, and cost.
• Work with suppliers, manufacturing, quality, and procurement teams.
• Support packaging equipment installation, troubleshooting, and new product launches.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Packaging, Mechanical, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of packaging engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with plastic injection molding and tooling.
• Knowledge of packaging materials, testing, and commercialization.
• Experience with packaging optimization software such as CAPE or TOPS.
• Familiarity with artwork management systems such as Esko WebCenter.
• Strong project management and communication skills.

Preferred: Knowledge of FDA, FSMA, GMP, food safety, Lean Six Sigma, and sustainable packaging.

In simple terms: The client needs a senior packaging engineer who can develop and launch packaging, has strong plastic injection molding and tooling experience, and can improve packaging quality, cost, and manufacturing efficiency.

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