Packaging Engineering Manager

This career opportunity is located at any CNG facility.

What we offer - Our hardworking team deserves benefits that work for them:

Total Rewards:

• Significant earning potential in year 1
• Progressive pay with skills development
• Additional earnings through employee ownership program
• Benefits day 1
• Paid parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• 401k with 5% company match at 90 days of employment
• Vacation upon day of hire

People & Culture:

• Sustainability leader
• Innovative & dynamic environment
• Safety & quality driven
• Purpose-driven & Values-based
• Community partners
• Earth stewardship

As a Packaging Engineering Manager your responsibilities will be:

• Source new packaging solution as required for new and existing products.
• Conduct package testing as necessary to ensure stability and compliance with shipping regulations.
• Ensure product packaging complies with shipping regulations.
• Lead and resolve packaging customer complaints.
• Leads complex projects or assignments within large projects with minimal supervision.
• Lead packaging qualification activities by generating packaging protocols, overseeing test execution, analyzing test data, and authoring qualification reports.
• Provide technical expertise for packaging risk assessments and failure mode/root cause analyses.
• Lead the improvement and standardization of packaging on existing products with focus on performance and cost effectiveness.
• Plan and execute a design of experiments. Perform statistical analysis on data generated from experiments and write final reports.
• Initiate and coordinate packaging line trials including planning, conducting and post-trial activities.
• Partner with purchasing, margin team, ERP, and production departments to determine costs and feasibility of producing proposed packaging.
• Lead internal and external relationships to effectively influence and gain support for initiatives.

A strong Packaging Engineering Manager will possess:

• Bachelor’s degree in Packaging, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent work experience
• 5-7 years packaging engineering experience
• Technical depth on a packaging material format or process
• Advance understand of the full packaging development and quality processes.
• Develop trial plans and create lab requests.
• Review and update specification as needed.
• Travel to and facilitate trials at sites.
• Advanced knowledge of requirements related to packaging and labeling ensuring robust package validation and qualification.
• Advance understand of project timeline development.
• Demonstrate skills in organization, attention to details, setting priorities and sound decision making.
• Strong work and personal ethics
• Effectively communicate and work alongside company personnel on all levels ranging from production workers to upper management
• Ability to work efficiently in a high demand, team oriented, and fast-paced environment.
• Be flexible across shifts/days as needed.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Familiar with ERP and PLM processes

Safety at CNG:

Ensure that safety and health concerns are given primary consideration in all activities Follows company guidelines and actively participates in all safety processes

• Carry out job/area specific housekeeping duties and maintain a high standard of professionalism
• Look for, report, and correct any near misses/unsafe conditions or behaviors as soon as possible
• Identify needed changes and make recommendations - find a better way

Physical Work and Work Environment:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Team members are required to frequently talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Are our values a match for you?

• Committed – We act with integrity and respect for one another.
• Collaborative – We are better when we work together.
• Caring – We strive to be socially conscious in all we do.
• Courageous – We take risks to achieve better outcomes.
• Curious – We encourage new thinking to reimagine what’s possible.
• Competitive – We play to win.

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If so, we can offer you an exciting career opportunity. We look forward to receiving your application and resume. Become part of our CNG team today!

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