Job description
We are seeking a talented Product Packaging Engineer to join our fast-growing packaging team in Chicago. This role focuses on designing innovative, sustainable packaging solutions for consumer goods, ensuring cost, performance, and regulatory compliance across the product lifecycle.
In this role you will collaborate with product design, operations, supply chain, and suppliers to deliver packaging concepts from concept to production, testing, and scale-up.
NovaPack Industries values creativity, precision, and collaboration. If you want to shape how millions of products reach customers with packaging that protects, informs, and inspires, this is the role for you.
Responsibility
- Lead end-to-end packaging design from concept to production release, ensuring performance and cost targets.
- Develop sustainable packaging concepts using materials science knowledge and life-cycle thinking.
- Collaborate with product design, engineering, operations, and suppliers to validate packaging via testing and DFMEA.
- Create and manage packaging BOMs, colorways, and dielines in CAD.
- Support regulatory compliance and label requirements across markets.
- Lead prototyping, testing, and validation activities including drop, compression, and moisture tests.
- Drive continuous improvement through data, supplier partnerships, and sustainability initiatives.
Qualification
- Bachelor’s degree in Packaging Engineering, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
- 5+ years of packaging design and development experience for consumer goods.
- Proficiency in CAD tools such as SolidWorks or Creo; experience with 3D packaging modeling preferred.
- Strong knowledge of packaging materials, finishes, and recyclability; understanding of offset and digital printing is a plus.
- Experience with packaging testing and validation methods; familiarity with regulatory standards and eco-labels.
- Excellent collaboration, communication, and project management skills; ability to manage multiple projects cross-functionally.
- Strong problem-solving mindset and data-driven decision making; ability to translate concepts into scalable production designs.