Packaging Engineer jobs in North Carolina
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)
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Packaging Engineer
- UFP Industries
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Salisbury, NC
FULL_TIME
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Join our operations team where you will be influential in shaping our business strategy and ensuring we have the most effective operations. Be your own boss by creating your own career path and pushing your professional limits.
General Summary
The Packaging Engineer is responsible for designing and developing Packaging products and solutions that meet customer’s needs and specifications. Will coordinate customer needs and expectations with sales strategy and manufacturing operations consistent with cost, profit, and productivity objectives. Will develop and utilize knowledge of materials such as lumber, panels, foam, corrugated, and steel to create Packaging products that will be manufactured by UFP and utilized by our customers.
Works under general direction of the Packaging Design Manager; exercises discretion and judgment on work priority on a regular basis; and a wide degree of creativity is expected.
Principal Duties And Responsibilities- Communicates with customers, vendors and co-workers to develop long term working relationships.
- Based on customer needs, designs structural packaging suitable for the purpose intended. Offers alternative designs of existing packaging and alternate material solutions.
- Develops drawings and specifications that meet customer requirements. Specifications are used in the manufacturing of the industrial products
- Monitors quality of products being produced to ensure they meet customer expectations while maintaining acceptable margins.
- Costs products, develops bills of materials and ensures that appropriate information is entered into the system and maintained.
- Assists in the new product development process.
- Assist in forecasting inventory requirements within area of responsibility.
- Drive efficiency in product manufacturing through design methods and assist production team in efficiency initiatives where applicable
- Monitors the established efficiencies and quality standards, and assists in corrective action as required.
- Monitors output, cuts/yields, and scrap to ensure efficient resource utilization and initiates corrective action as required within area of responsibility.
- Assists developing source contacts and relationships for packaging raw materials in cooperation with the Purchasing department.
- Prepares various reports as required.
- Performs other duties as required.
- Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, packaging or related discipline, or equivalent experience is required.
- Working knowledge of manufacturing operations; 2 years experience in a lumber/panel/packaging manufacturing environment preferred.
- Working knowledge of panel and lumber grades, etc.
- Working knowledge of lumber math and business math
- Full understanding of cuts and yields
- Proficiency in the use of MS Excel/spreadsheets is required; working knowledge of drawing/design software (Autocad/Solidworks) is preferred.
- Preferred experience and knowledge of UFP’s organization and product lines
- Proficiency in the use of the English language in reading, writing and speaking.
- Ability to successfully interact with all organizational levels, customers and the public.
- Ability to apply business math to manufacturing processes.
- Ability to recognize value in various products and be able to utilize them in the manufacturing of new products.
- Ability to design and create computer generated prints for production and to use them in sales presentations.
- Ability to physically make product samples based on design (should receive safety training related to the equipment and machine to be used in making product samples.)
- Requires superior analytical, problem solving and engineering skills/aptitude.
- Ability to review actual performance to plan, identify trends and implement profit generating solutions.
- Ability to manage several activities/projects at once, to organize and prioritize work, to meet deadlines, to prepare plans, goals and budgets.
- Ability to be mobile in the work environment, travel as required.
- Ability to use a computer, and proficiency in the use of MS Office and other business related software.
- Ability to pass a drug test
- 6 Days Ago
Packaging Engineer
- Upper Deck Human Resources
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Durham, NC
FULL_TIME
- POSITION SUMMARY Develops and implements innovative packaging solutions, interprets product development documents to achieve packaging SKU’s for marketing plans and sales distribution. Resolves comple...
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Packaging Engineer
- Syngenta
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Greensboro, NC
FULL_TIME
- Company DescriptionAs a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all – while minimizing the use of land ...
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Packaging Engineer
- Westrock Coffee Company
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Concord, NC
FULL_TIME
- Job DescriptionThe Packaging Engineer will be responsible for the design, development, and implementation of flexible film packaging solutions specifically tailored for coffee bags. This role requires...
- 11 Days Ago
Packaging Engineer
- Consolidated Metco
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Canton, NC
FULL_TIME
- The Packaging Engineer at ConMet’s Canton, North Carolina plastics manufacturing plant plans and directs activities concerned with design and development of protective packaging containers. This role ...
- 19 Days Ago
Packaging Engineer
- Syngenta Group
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Greensboro, NC
FULL_TIME
- Company DescriptionAs a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all – while minimizing the use of land ...
- 24 Days Ago
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- BoldtSmith Packaging Consultants
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Principal Packaging Engineer
- Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
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Irvine, CA
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Principal Packaging Engineer
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Chicago, IL
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Associate Packaging Engineer
- WK Kellogg Co
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Battle Creek, MI
- At WK Kellogg Co, we exist to create joy and connection to inspire Gr-r-reat days. We believe that doing good is always ...
- 6/8/2024 12:00:00 AM
Packaging Engineer
- The Judge Group
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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...
- 6/8/2024 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...
- 6/7/2024 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...
- 6/6/2024 12:00:00 AM
Packaging Engineer
- Refresco
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Tampa, FL
- Make a Difference in YOUR Career! Our vision is both simple and ambitious: to put our drinks on every table. We are the ...
- 6/6/2024 12:00:00 AM
About North Carolina
North Carolina (/ˌkærəˈlaɪnə/ (listen)) is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. It borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west, Virginia to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. North Carolina is the 28th-most extensive and the 9th-most populous of the U.S. states. The state is divided into 100 counties. The capital is Raleigh, which along with Durham and Chapel Hill is home to the largest research park in the United States (Research Triangle Park). The most populous municipality is Charlotte, which is the second-largest banking center in...
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Income Estimation for Packaging Engineer jobs
$66,296 to $82,104
Most Popular Cities in North Carolina 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.
February 17, 2020
Packaging Engineer in Boise, ID
The professional duty of someone who is a packaging engineer is that of designing, developing, and producing particular packages or containers for a broad range of different items, which can include the likes of clothing, computers, electronics, food, pharmaceuticals, household items, appliances and children’s toys.
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