Senior Packaging Engineer

Senior Packaging Engineer

Job Description

 

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role.

Neither are we.

Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference.

Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU. 

The Sr.

Packaging Engineer entails ownership of end-to-end packaging from strategic development to tactical execution providing technical and program leadership for structural packaging solutions for a category / platform within the Family Care Business Unit to deliver financial results with winning value propositions and products.

Leads strategic cross-brand or cross business packaging projects and is viewed as the Category Packaging subject matter expert.  Provides informal team leadership, work direction and training to their packaging team consisting of packaging engineers and coordinators.

Organizational Relationships: 

This position reports to the Packaging R&D Senior Manager and receives direction in the form of general project objectives.

Key Customers:

Research & Development, Product Supply, Marketing, Customer Development, Sales Strategy, Finance, Legal, Market Research, External Consultants and Research Organizations, Vendors (directly and through Procurement).

 In this role, you will:


* Lead tactical technical packaging engineers to develop new product/package introductions/launches/initial commercialization, as well as product/process changes and rollovers. 


* Lead complex projects with higher risks and business implications. 


* Serve as an interface between strategic and tactical projects/timelines, including influencing graphic design and cross-functional project teams. 


* Represent Packaging in key strategy cross-brand or cross business development efforts and is primary decision maker for tactical packaging development.


* Evaluate packaging specifications according to the nature of the product, cost limitations, legal requirements, and the type of protection required. 


* Evaluate, prioritize and apply innovative solutions/ new technologies and materials in the design of packaging to deliver a consumer benefit, enhance profit margin, and/or reduce the environmental impact of our packaging. 


* Understand and is knowledgeable of laboratory activities and tests, using scientific systems/tools, to assess technical feasibility in the qualification of materials, copackers and vendors.


* Ensure adherence to packaging and transportation industry, customer/vendor and KC standards, procedures and requirements to ensure compliance with safety and quality standards.  Understands and ensures corporate policies and procedures and industry standards for packaging specific...