Packaging Engineer

Description

PIM is one of Americas leading makers of popular brand-name snacks and confections, including Welchs Fruit Snacks, Original Gummi FunMix, Sun-Maid Chocolate Raisins, Sour Jacks Sour Candies, and more. We are passionate about delivering delicious and innovative snacks and treats developed with the highest quality ingredients and standards, offered whenever and wherever consumers want them. More simply put, we make the brands you love!

Job Overview

• To design, develop, and commercialize new packaging for high-speed manufacturing of confections and fruit snack products.
• The Packaging Engineer will provide general technical support for initial production runs and troubleshooting of packaging lines at internal and external production locations.
• To maintain and evolve a sustainable packaging program to be in alignment with internal and industry targets.
• Create an innovation portfolio of new and emerging sustainable packaging options for product innovations, promotional displays, graphic refreshes and customer specific packs across all product types and brands.

Job Responsibility

• Coordinate performance testing, qualifications and validations (i.e. shelf life) related to key package dimensions & critical consumer attributes.
• Create technical specifications for finished goods and packaging materials.
• Perform solid root-cause analysis and technical problem solving to issues with current packaging and good technical design practices on new designs.
• Develops ideas, concepts and prototypes to solve problems and meet customer/consumer needs in new and superior ways.
• Plan own workload to ensure tasks and objectives are completed and collaborates as a participative team member to ensure milestones are met.
• Work with the plant to drive overall efficiencies related to packaging (i.e. cost savings, reducing changeover time, consolidation efforts)
• Convert marketing hypotheses and insight into packaging ideas, quickly reducing those ideas to functional and testable prototypes.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Skills that will make you successful Knowledge of recycling technologies and how sustainable materials fit within guidelines.
• Knowledge of and working relationships with leading organizations that provide appropriate guidance on packaging converters and material sustainability compliance.
• Working knowledge with multiple materials and processes in various distribution environments including rigid plastics, flexible materials, corrugated and paperboard packaging and labels.
• General knowledge of GMPs Packaging material processing specification knowledge including extensive knowledge of packaging machinery.
• Demonstrated ability to perform as a contributing member of cross functional teams, including ability to communicate with all levels of the organization, including senior leadership.
• Participate in packaging associations and utilize global networking in the industry to ensure Company stays abreast of latest trends, technologies, and state and federal regulations for consumer product packaging.
• Willing to travel up to 20% by car.

Minimum Requirements & Qualification

• BS degree in Packaging Engineering/Science discipline
• 3 - 5 years' experience
• 1 - 2 years' experience leading projects and/or teams Project management of packaging validation and qualification.
• Experience with sustainable packaging initiatives
• Experience with CAPE Shipper/Palletization software
• Experience with SAP and skilled with Microsoft applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Outlook, Access.