Job description
Join Nexa PackTech, a premier innovator in premium packaging solutions for consumer goods and specialty markets. We are seeking a results-driven Packaging Engineer to design, test, and optimize packaging concepts that protect products, maximize efficiency, and reduce waste across the product lifecycle.
In this role, you will collaborate with R&D, procurement, quality, and manufacturing teams to deliver scalable packaging solutions from concept through production, ensuring performance, sustainability, and cost targets are achieved.
Responsibility
- Lead end-to-end packaging development for new products, including material selection, testing, validation, and documentation of results.
- Collaborate with R&D, Quality, and Supply Chain to ensure regulatory compliance and alignment with sustainability goals.
- Evaluate, qualify, and manage packaging suppliers; negotiate terms and monitor performance metrics.
- Create packaging specifications, bill of materials, and cost models to enable efficient scale-up and cost control.
- Plan and execute packaging trials, line trials, and pilot runs in manufacturing environments to ensure smooth transfer to production.
- Identify and implement root-cause corrective actions for packaging failures using structured problem-solving (DOE, FMEA, DMAIC).
- Own labeling, artwork specs, and packaging artwork approval processes to ensure accuracy and compliance.
- Monitor packaging performance, waste, and total cost of ownership; drive continuous improvement initiatives.
Qualification
- Bachelor's degree in Packaging Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related field.
- 3-5 years of packaging design/engineering experience in consumer goods, food, or medical devices.
- Solid knowledge of ISTA testing standards, regulatory compliance, and GMP concepts.
- Proficiency in CAD (SolidWorks or similar) and packaging simulation; hands-on experience with packaging equipment and automation.
- Strong project management, cross-functional collaboration, and supplier management skills.
- Data-driven problem solving with experience in DOE, statistics (Minitab, JMP), and advanced Excel.
- Effective communication, documentation, and presentation skills with the ability to influence stakeholders.
- Willingness to travel up to 15% as needed.