Packaging Engineer

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced Packaging Engineer to provide engineering support for primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging systems within the FMCG, cosmetics, personal care, or consumer goods industries.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide engineering support for primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging systems.
• Evaluate packaging equipment performance and identify opportunities for productivity improvements.
• Support packaging line modifications, new equipment installations, and capacity enhancements.
• Develop and review equipment specifications, User Requirement Specifications (URS), and technical bid evaluations.
• Coordinate packaging line layouts and equipment integration activities.
• Support packaging material and packaging format changeovers.
• Collaborate with OEMs and vendors during design, installation, and startup phases.
• Review utility requirements, line balancing, and machine interfaces.
• Support packaging validation, commissioning, and performance qualification.
• Ensure compliance with safety, quality, ergonomic, and manufacturing standards.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, Packaging Engineering, or Industrial Engineering.
• 7-10 years of packaging engineering experience in FMCG, cosmetics, personal care, or consumer goods industries.
• Strong understanding of filling, capping, labelling, cartoning, case packing, and palletizing systems.
• Experience with packaging machinery selection and integration.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD and packaging line layout development.
• Experience working with packaging equipment OEMs.
• Knowledge of GMP and packaging quality requirements.
• Strong project coordination and communication skills.
• Ability to work onsite in the USA.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting brownfield facility modifications.