Senior Packaging Engineer
Description
Adept Group offers an award-winning workplace for exceptional packaging industry talent. We work on a range of innovative projects for iconic brand owners. Our technically gifted team collaborates to produce unparalleled results.
We offer a great place to showcase your expertise and build upon your skillset. All while having fun with amazing people from a variety of diverse backgrounds. We’re driven, inspirational and most importantly, human.
We offer a flexible, creative culture focusing on 3 pillars - our environment, our communities, and our health and well-being. Join a team committed to building a sustainable future!
The Opportunity
Adept Group is seeking a Senior Packaging Engineer to join our team! This person would be experienced with full package development and qualification process, flexibles films, folding cartons, corrugate, and technical depth on packaging materials, format, or process specifically within the Food industry. This is an onsite position in East Hanover, NJ (no remote opportunity).
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.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Packaging Engineering.
- 7+ years packaging engineering experience with 3+ years in the Food Industry.
- 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.
Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Health Care including Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance with Health Savings Options
- Paid Time Off
- Sick and Mental Health days
- 11 Paid Company Holidays
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Paid Parental Leave and Company Paid Short-term Disability Insurance
- 401k Retirement savings plan with generous company match
- Company Paid Life Insurance
- 32 Hours dedicated to Training and Career Development
- 8 Hours of Paid Volunteer Time
- Professional development opportunities
- Collaborative and inclusive work environment
Salary Range: $85,000 - $127,000