Packaging Engineer jobs in Missouri
Packaging Engineer designs product packaging to ensure product integrity and appeal under varying shipping and display conditions. Tests, analyzes, and selects materials for packaging based on durability and cost effectiveness. Being a Packaging Engineer helps ensure packaging complies with all regulations. May require a bachelor's degree. Additionally, Packaging Engineer typically reports to a supervisor or manager. The Packaging Engineer works on projects/matters of limited complexity in a support role. Work is closely managed. To be a Packaging Engineer typically requires 0-2 years of related experience. (Copyright 2024 Salary.com)
Recently Added Packaging Engineer jobs
Packaging Engineer (Pasta)
- 8th Avenue Food & Provisions
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Fenton, MO
FULL_TIME
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Business Unit Overview
8th Avenue Food & Provisions is a growing organization made up of businesses that produce and sell quality products including pasta, peanut butter, granola, and fruit and nut trail mixes to retail, foodservice and ingredient customers. The company was formed in October 2018 through a combination of Post Holdings’ private brands businesses and is owned by Post Holdings and funds affiliated with Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. (“THL”), a private equity firm.
Responsibilities
The ideal candidate will be located in either Fenton, MO or New Hope, MN.
Position Summary:
This role is accountable for ensuring the 8th Avenue portfolio is supported by packaging solutions that are highly functional, consumer-intuitive, cost-optimized, innovative, and adhere to company standards and industry conventions. The ideal candidate possesses deep technical knowledge of the food packaging space, including packaging design (features, functionalities, and limitations), material/ component specifications, artwork/label design while optimizing cost & operational interactions. She has a strong attention to detail, an awareness of consumer insights, and an understanding of the impact to the company’s P&L. This role supports Branded and Private Label Pasta as primary areas of responsibility.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Packaging portfolio stewardship & optimization- Maintain packaging bill-of-materials and specifications for existing portfolio, including primary/secondary packaging and labels
- Establish and maintain a database of current primary and secondary packaging specifications; work with business units to optimize offerings and reduce redundancy/duplication in packaging specifications
- Proactively assess and quantify cost optimization potential across items in the portfolio
- Ensure packaging portfolio
- Optimizes transportation, product stability, and display requirements
- Is designed to be compatible with production lines
- Is in compliance with all internal and external/regulatory requirements
- Supports company’s sustainability targets
- Other duties, as assigned
- Work with Sales, Product Management, Finance, and Operations to explore and commercialize new products (including those with packaging-inspired innovations)
- Participate in cost/appeal tradeoff assessments
- Contribute to the Stage Gate process to ensure packaging requirements are defined and developed in an effective and timely manner
- Conduct hands-on bench and pilot scale tests to help assess packaging performance, shelf-life, and quality attributes
- Establish expert knowledge of various packaging materials/substrates - their features, functionalities, limitations, and production line feasibility
- Match appropriate inks and print technologies to desired graphics to ensure effective translation to packaging substrates
- Validation tests to ensure packaging suppliers are meeting specified standards
- Work with Procurement to continually assess, nurture, and optimize supplier relationships
- B.S. in Packaging Engineering or Packaging Science plus 5 years’ experience. Certification in Packaging Engineering or Packaging Science plus 7 years’ experience.
- Recognized as an in-house authority on packaging systems.
- Strong teamwork, problem solving, and presentation skills.
- Advanced PC skills: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Experience with JDE, statistical software desired.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, conflict resolution, and interpersonal skills.
- Strong project planning and management skills, ability to lead teams and multiple simultaneous projects effectively.
- Able to be decisive and repeatedly meet deadlines.
- Able to remove barriers.
- Highly motivated individual with ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to travel 30-50% is required.
- Proven communications ability with all levels of management.
- Proven leadership in managing new package development.
- Demonstrated ability to coach and influence others.
- 9 Days Ago
Photonics Packaging Engineer
- DeepSight Technology
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St. Louis, MO
FULL_TIME
- DeepSight Technology Inc. is a rapidly growing startup company that has developed breakthrough technology in ultrasound imaging. This new technology will both extend the range and clarity over current...
- 2 Months Ago
Sales Representative for Cannabis Packaging
- Custom Marijuana Packaging
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, MO
FULL_TIME
- Custom Marijuana Packaging is a premier manufacturer of custom cannabis packaging solutions, including flexible packaging and containers. Located in Michigan, we are among the select few in the indust...
- 1 Day Ago
Packaging
- Keefe Group
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Bridgeton, MO
FULL_TIME
- Overview Keefe Group is a division of TKC Holdings, Inc. that is the industry leader in the commissary market. We run an essential business serving our communities and our customers. We are looking fo...
- 17 Days Ago
Senior Packaging Engineer - St. Louis, MO
- Steris Corporation
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St. Louis, MO
FULL_TIME
- Job Title: Senior Packaging Engineer - St. Louis, MO Req ID: 42341 Job Category: Engineering St. Louis, MO, US, 63133 Description: At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world b...
- 7 Days Ago
Packaging Attendant - 10 Hr Day
- LEGACY PHARMACEUTICAL PACKAGING LLC
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Earth, MO
OTHER
- Job Details Job Location: MO - Earth City, MO Position Type: Full Time Education Level: High School Diploma or GED Salary Range: Undisclosed Travel Percentage: None Job Shift: Day Job Category: Manufa...
- 2 Months Ago
Packaging Engineer jobs at Popular Companies
Principal Package Engineer
- Marvell Technology, Inc.
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Santa Clara, CA
- About Marvell Marvell's semiconductor solutions are the essential building blocks of the data infrastructure that connec...
- 6/2/2024 12:00:00 AM
Principal Packaging Engineer
- Melaleuca, Inc.
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Idaho Falls, ID
- Company Profile : "Enhancing the Lives of Those We Touch by Helping People Reach Their Goals" For over 32 years, Melaleu...
- 6/2/2024 12:00:00 AM
Principal Packaging Engineer
- Keurig Dr Pepper Inc.
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Burlington, MA
- Position requires 3 days per week in office with two days remote* A senior technical Innovation role creating and develo...
- 6/1/2024 12:00:00 AM
Packaging Engineer
- Manpower Engineering
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Crete, NE
- Our client, a leading name in the pet care industry, is seeking a Senior Packaging Engineer to join their team. As a Sen...
- 5/31/2024 12:00:00 AM
Principal Packaging Engineer
- Tropicana Brands Group
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Chicago, IL
- About Tropicana Brands Group The launch of Tropicana Brands Group represents an exciting fusion of some of the world's m...
- 5/29/2024 12:00:00 AM
Principal Packaging Engineer
- Hiring Now!
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Chicago, IL
- Principal Packaging EngineerAs part of an entrepreneurial-culture, the ideal candidate will be open to stretching within...
- 5/29/2024 12:00:00 AM
Packaging Engineer
- Lockheed Martin
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Camden, AR
- Job ID: 663935BR Date posted: Apr. 18, 2024 Description:Packaging Engineer will be responsible to ensure all customer su...
- 5/29/2024 12:00:00 AM
Packaging Engineer
- Hiring Now!
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Red Boiling Springs, TN
- Our food manufacturing client is currently seeking a Packaging Engineer. The Packing Engineer is coordinating all packin...
- 5/29/2024 12:00:00 AM
About Missouri
Missouri is landlocked and borders eight different states as does its neighbor, Tennessee. No state in the U.S. touches more than eight. Missouri is bounded by Iowa on the north; by Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee across the Mississippi River on the east; on the south by Arkansas; and by Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska (the last across the Missouri River) on the west. Whereas the northern and southern boundaries are straight lines, the Missouri Bootheel protrudes southerly into Arkansas. The two largest rivers are the Mississippi (which defines the eastern boundary of the state) and the Misso...
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Income Estimation for Packaging Engineer jobs
$65,641 to $81,294
Most Popular Cities in Missouri for Packaging Engineer Jobs
What does a Packaging Engineer do?
Packaging Engineer in Vincennes, IN
Having a broad understanding of all phases of a product’s supply chain and logistics enables the engineer to design a package that is reliable, efficient and appealing throughout the entire cycle.
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Packaging Engineer in Boise, ID
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February 19, 2020
Packaging Engineer in Altus, OK
Industrial engineers use creativity and ingenuity to design new production processes in many kinds of settings in order to reduce the use of material resources, time, or labor while accomplishing the same goal.
December 18, 2019