Packaging Engineer - Senior

We are looking for a talented Packaging Engineer- Senior to join our team specializing in Logistics for our Corporate organization in Indianapolis, IN .

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

• Apply advanced packaging engineering expertise to design, analyze, and release expendable and returnable packaging systems that support products from launch through end of life.
• Partner cross‑functionally with engineering, manufacturing, logistics, suppliers, and customers to define packaging requirements that protect product quality while enabling efficient operations.
• Drive measurable improvements in packaging quality, total landed cost, and waste reduction by identifying optimization opportunities aligned with Cummins sustainability and operational goals.
• Define and optimize returnable container fleet sizes by collaborating with logistics and inventory teams to balance availability, flow efficiency, and working capital.
• Develop site‑specific packaging solutions that comply with Cummins Global Packaging Standards while supporting safety, storage racking, line‑side presentation, and material handling equipment needs.
• Ensure supplier conformance to packaging standards and regulatory requirements, reducing inbound and outbound shipment risk and improving overall supply chain reliability.
• Support Indirect Purchasing initiatives by providing technical insight, cost analyses, and data‑driven recommendations that strengthen packaging procurement decisions.
• Deliver consistent, value‑based outcomes by applying strong business acumen and proactively pursuing continuous learning and development to expand technical and professional capabilities.

To be successful in this role you will need the following:

• Action oriented - Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Ensures accountability - Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Manages complexity - Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Data Analytics - Discovers, interprets and communicates qualitative and quantitative data; determines conclusions relying on knowledge of business or functional frameworks; simultaneously applies statistics, data validity, data visualization, and problem solving approaches to effectively extract meaningful patterns and business insights; presents conclusions and outcomes that enable data driven business decisions.
• Environmentally Sustainable Packaging Principles - Outlines the environmentally sustainable packaging material selection and its life cycle impact by describing selection criteria, performance considerations and application in designing order to achieve the goal to reduce, reuse, recycle or reclaim.
• Industrial Packaging Design - Develops primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging designs for industrial products through the application of engineering techniques to ensure product protection for all touch points of an end to end supply chain.
• Operations Integration in Industrial Packaging - Demonstrates and applies knowledge of manufacturing process, equipment and the physical flows of inbound parts to finished goods to establish industrial packaging methods and equipment that integrate safely and efficiently into the operational environment.
• Packaging Distribution Conditions and Dynamics - Recognizes environmental conditions and dynamic forces placed on packaging in supply chains by explaining the hazards and corresponding requirements that ensure product protection.
• Packaging Material Knowledge - Demonstrates the benefits of using different packaging mediums by articulating their physical properties, types and characteristics to select the packaging materials for the application, product protection, cost and impact on the environment.
• Packaging Testing - Evaluates performance validation tests, standards and reports to distinguish which method to apply; interprets test reports and draws conclusions in order to ensure packaging performance meets transit and handling conditions through end to end supply chain.
• Returnable Packaging Management - Gathers and analyzes financial data, fleet sizing, tracking, maintenance, logistics and performance monitoring requirements to develop a returnable packaging program that delivers savings in material and transportation while reducing waste.
• Problem Solving - Solves problems and may mentor others on effective problem solving by using a systematic analysis process by leveraging industry standard methodologies to create problem traceability and protect the customer; determines the assignable cause; implements robust, data-based solutions; identifies the systemic root causes and ensures actions to prevent problem reoccurrence are implemented.
• Values differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

Education, Licenses, Certifications:

• Bachelor degree in Engineering or related discipline is required. Packaging Engineering or Packaging Science degree is highly preferred.
• This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

Experience:

• 3-5 years of Packaging Engineering or related experience is required

Additional Responsibilities:

• Work in collaboration with third party provider at IDC warehouse
• Provide Aftermarket packaging Guidelines to vendors
• Assure 100% in packaging compliance

Job Logistics

Organization Cummins Inc.

Role Category On-site with Flexibility

Job Type Exempt - Experienced

ReqID 2428933

Relocation Package Yes

100% On-Site Yes

Due to the operational nature and specific job duties of this role, work is required to be completed 100% in person/On-site.

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