Packaging Engineer II
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 Packaging Engineer II with expertise in the Food & Beverage industry to join our dynamic team! This is a 1099 Contract opportunity. This person must have experience with films, project management, and handle multiple ongoing projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Executes product initiatives, packaging design and performance enhancements, cost-improvement efforts, and promotional activities.
- Initiate and drive packaging qualifications by generating packaging protocols, overseeing test execution, analyzing test data, and authoring qualification reports.
- Provide limited technical expertise for packaging risk assessments and failure mode/root cause analyses.
- Plan and execute a design of experiments. Perform statistical analysis on data generated from experiments and write final reports.
- Provide activity, resource, and decisional input to Initiate and complete packaging line trials including planning, conducting and post-trial activities.
- Perform the project plan outlined for the improvement and standardization of packaging on existing products with focus on performance and cost effectiveness
- Partner with purchasing and production departments to determine costs and feasibility of producing proposed packaging
- Build internal and external relationships to effectively influence and gain support for initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Packaging Engineering.
- 3 - 7 years packaging engineering experience.
- Technical depth on a packaging material, format, or process.
- In-depth 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.