Senior Packaging Engineer Job at Reynolds Consumer Products, Lake Forest, IL

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  • Reynolds Consumer Products
  • Lake Forest, IL

Job Description

Senior Packaging Engineer

Join Reynolds Consumer Products and drive your career across a world of opportunities! We provide amazing job opportunities for growth with competitive salaries and benefits in an exciting, dynamic, fast-paced, and high-performance organization. If you are looking to build a strong career, we have an opportunity for you! We are searching for a Senior Packaging Engineer to join our team located at our corporate headquarters in Lake Forest, IL.

Responsibilities

Your Role:

Design, develop, specify, and test packaging which protects and satisfactorily delivers the product to the consumer under the following guidelines:

  • Satisfies Marketing objectives.
  • Meets profitability guidelines.
  • Technically functional.
  • Innovative with a point of difference to the consumer.

You will have the opportunity to make great things happen!

  • Lead material explorations derived from inputs provided by cross-functional teams confirming packaging and project feasibility.
  • Utilize GS1 standards to create packaging specifications defining component dimensions, weights, and orientation.
  • Populate bill of materials for complex display packaging comprised of 20 or more components.
  • Support a high quantity of commercialization projects executing packaging engineering deliverables within condensed and expedited deadlines.
  • Employ palletizing software to generate pallet plans that abide by customer requirements, supply chain constraints, and weight limitations.
  • Conduct ISTA shipping trials defining the test plan, establishing defect definitions, test inputs, and acceptance criteria.
  • Champion sustainability stewardship by driving innovation to increase recyclability, recycled content and material reduction for existing or new packaging components.
  • Identify process gaps and engineer remedies that streamlined cross-functional efficiency, reduce waste, and minimize project risk.
  • Projected minimum of 10% travel to internal plants and vendors.

You will love it here if

  • You put safety first, always
  • You listen, learn, and evolve
  • You are passionate about collaboration, teamwork, and achieving shared goals
  • You treat all people with respect, operating ethically, and embrace inclusivity
  • You are committed to improving our impact on local communities

Qualifications

We need you to have:

  • Extensive experience devising dynamic consumer facing packaging such as half-pallet displays, club displays, RRP, PDQ trays, and floor stand displays.
  • Deep understanding of design principles, converting processes, and high-speed packing equipment.
  • Ability to facilitate packaging and manufacturing deliverables with outsourced suppliers and co-packers.
  • High degree of creativity, capability to work both independently and with cross-functional teams.
  • Can efficiently prioritize a large quantity projects and cross-functional requests with the flexibility to adapt to changing time constraints.
  • Adept or expert knowledge on the manufacturing and printing process for a range of packaging materials such as: paperboard, corrugated, poly bags, and adhesive labels.
  • Proficient with the following software suite:
    • OEM - Specright, and SAP.
    • Palletizing TOPS and CAPE.
    • CAD - ArtiosCAD.
  • Bachelor of Science in Packaging Engineering or equivalent education.
  • 10 years of professional experience as a Packaging Engineer.

Icing on the cake:

  • Certified Packaging Professional (CPP).

If you answer yes to the followingwe want to meet you!

  • Intellectual Curiosity: Do you have an inquisitive nature?
  • Problem Solving: Do you have a knack for tackling issues head-on?
  • Entrepreneurship: Do you enjoy taking ownership of your work?
  • Customer Centricity: Do you always act in the best interests of the customer, putting their needs first?
  • Growth Mindset: Do you focus on progress rather than perfection?
  • Continuous Improvement: Are you never satisfied with the status quo?

Apply today to join a fast-growing innovative company!

No recruiter calls or emails please.

RCP affords equal employment opportunities to applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, disability status, sex, marital status, protected veteran status, pregnancy, national origin, genetics, genetic information, parental status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. RCP conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations.

Posted Salary Range

USD $115,000.00 - USD $130,000.00 /A

Reynolds Consumer Products

Job Tags

Local area,

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