Key Responsibilities:

• Leads complex projects or assignments within large projects with minimal supervision.
• Lead packaging qualification activities by generating packaging protocols, overseeing test execution, analyzing test data, and authoring qualification reports.
• Provide technical expertise for packaging risk assessments and failure mode/root cause analyses.
• Lead the improvement and standardization of packaging on existing products with focus on performance and cost effectiveness
• Plan and execute a design of experiments. Perform statistical analysis on data generated from experiments and write final reports.
• Initiate and coordinate packaging line trials including planning, conducting and post-trial activities.
• Partner with purchasing and production departments to determine costs and feasibility of producing proposed packaging
• Lead internal and external relationships to effectively influence and gain support for initiatives.
• Able to identify areas of cost savings or improvements to new and on market products

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Packaging Engineering.
• 5 – 10 years packaging engineering experience.
• Technical depth on a packaging material, format, or process.
• Advanced understanding of the full packaging development and qualification process (or stage gate process).
• Developing Trial plans & Creating lab requests
• Reviewing and updating specifications as needed
• Travel to and facilitate trials at sites
• Advanced knowledge of requirements related to packaging and labeling, ensuring robust package validation and qualification.
• Advanced understanding of project timeline development.
• Demonstrated effective communications (verbally and in writing) across internal and external teams.
• Demonstrated ability to multitask and manage time efficiently and effectively across multiple activities and tasks simultaneously.