Packaging Equipment 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 Packaging Equipment Engineer (1099 Contractor) to join our team. This person would have a minimum of 5 - 7 years of Packaging Equipment Engineering experience within the Food Manufacturing Industry.
This is a long-term project for 40 hours per week. This project requires 50% travel, domestic and international, to be onsite.
Responsibilities
Design:
- Create basis of design and scope of work documents
- Develop design concepts
- Develop functional specifications for packaging lines
- Work with sanitary design concepts
- Create AutoCAD equipment layouts
- Interpret mechanical design requirements and customer specifications
- Review vendor shop drawings and discipline coordination drawings
Engineering:
- Create packaging flow diagrams, material balance, packaging matrix, equipment specifications, OEE documents, speed matrix and V- Curve
- Develop budget estimates
- Create and follow up with equipment bid packages
- Develop and maintain delivery and installation schedule
- Understand size and placement of support equipment
- Provide expertise in manufacturing and packaging design principles
- Design systems including conveyance, wrapping, bagging, cartoning, filling, bottling, case packing and palletizing
- Assist in process simulation
- Develop project specific procurement documents for packaging equipment
- Assist with machine and process design
- Preparation of machine testing requirements and procedures
Site work:
- Survey existing conditions
- On-site construction project coordination to assist with the installation and commissioning of packaging equipment
- Supervise equipment vendors and installation crews
- Attend and present at client meetings
- Lead factory acceptance testing at vendors shop
- Provide coaching and/or mentoring to a subordinate group when directed by supervisor.
- Must have been a part of a project team that installed a packaging system with components including conveyance, wrapping, bagging, cartoning, filling, bottling, case packing or palletizing
Requirements:
- Minimum of 5 - 7 years of experience in packaging equipment engineering within the food manufacturing industry.
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Packaging, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering preferred.
- Extensive experience with capital project execution, scope writing, and cost estimation.
- Proven ability to work in unionized manufacturing environments and navigate labor considerations.
- Strong technical expertise in evaluating and implementing packaging equipment changes.
- Familiarity with food industry safety standards and compliance requirements.
- Ability to travel approximately 50% of the time to multiple plant locations.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to engage with plant teams, vendors, and project stakeholders.
- Ability to work autonomously with minimal supervision.
- Strong communication skills to bridge technical and non-technical teams.
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.