Package Engineer
Job ID: 562900
Location: Conway, AR
Category: Consumer Packaged Goods
Employment Type: Direct Hire
BelFlex Staffing has partnered with a well-known Central AR employer to recruit and direct hire a Packaging Engineer!
Job Responsibilities:
- Ability to troubleshoot packaging manufacturing issues and identify root cause.
- Create and or/interpret packaging specifications to determine deviations vs. manufacturing errors.
- Identify cost savings opportunities as it relates to new equipment technologies and operational efficiencies.
- Design, develop, engineer and trouble-shoot methods, materials and systems in the area of packaging categories and materials.
- Works with Global Sourcing to trial / implement new packaging items at S&D Manufacturing locations.
- Manage packaging testing in-house or utilizing 3rdparty facilities to ensure spec conformance.
- Interact with QA teams to continuously improve S&D’s packaging.
- Ensure existing quality specifications are being met, perform failure analysis to identify and correct deficiencies.
- Assist Project Engineers in the research and implementation of new/updated packaging line installs.
- Understand equipment capability as it relates to packaging materials and specifications.
- Organize and lead real or simulated testing to qualify package design, material specification, or “fit for use” application of packages.
- Organize production trials with the plants to qualify packaging within the manufacturing facilities for new product launches, startups as well as to develop best performance line setups and practices.
- Provide informational reports and proposals for production optimization, standardized specifications and best practice guidelines to management for decision making.
- Bachelor’s degree in Packaging Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Related Science.
- 5+ years’ experience with consumer-packaged goods in a packaging development role.
- Rigid and flexible packaging design experience with packaging products in a manufacturing setting.
- Work experience with food or beverage packaging design, manufacturing and/or use.
- Strong leadership and analytical skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong working knowledge of Windows Office Suite, Adobe Illustrator, TOPS, JD Edwards, and Spec Management Systems.
- Ability to effectively establish working relationships with various S&D departments / supervisors and management personnel.
- Ability to travel to customer or vendor sites as required (up to 25% travel)
- Folding Carton design experience with packaging products in a manufacturing setting.
- Film/bag design (flow-wrap and form-fill-seal) experience with packaging products in a manufacturing setting.
- Blown molded and injection molded experience with packaging products in a manufacturing setting.
- Special feature design (closure, re-closure, display etc.) experience with packaging products in a manufacturing setting.
- Experience monitoring, evaluating, and reporting observations and recommendations for packaging materials and production lines.
$130,000.00
How to Apply: Contact Horace at hniccum@belflex.com or call 501-404-3251
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