2026 Undergraduate Packaging Engineer Co-Op

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Position Title: Undergraduate Packaging Engineer Co-Op

Location: Princeton, NJ (hybrid 3 days per week)

Duration: 6-month Co-op starting January 2026 & July 2026

We currently have an excellent opportunity for a Research & Development Engineering Co-Op located at our Princeton, NJ facility. This position will provide support to one of three functional areas: Packaging Innovation, Package Development, and Package Technical Transfer.

• Package Innovation: The co-op will focus on the early phases of packaging development, working with ideas, consumer insights, concepts, and rough designs.
• Package Development: The co-op will work on package design that optimizes innovation functionality, costs and equipment integration requirements based on CHD’s core technology platforms.
• Package Technical Transfer: The co-op will utilize performance-based specifications & technology platform thinking to shorten & expedite the package commercialization process for new and revised packaging.
  
  

Through this position, the co-op will work in a project-based environment. Responsibilities include testing, documentation, and travel to plants, and suppliers. The co-op will have the opportunity to work in cross-functional teams, as well as independently to determine and implement solutions based upon analytical data assessments.

Special Skills/Competencies And Requirements

• Currently enrolled undergraduate students who have completed at least two years of college coursework by the start of the program (rising Junior or rising Senior) pursuing a bachelor's degree in Packaging Science/Engineering, with packaging coursework completed.
• Microsoft Excel is required.
• Ability and interest in working a hybrid schedule in Princeton, NJ
• Candidates must have US Work Authorization (US Citizen, permanent resident, green card holder)
• Able to manage multiple timelines and priorities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are required.
• Co-op will be trained on specification systems, CAD, testing or prototyping equipment as required.
• Candidates must have US Work Authorization (US Citizen, permanent resident, green card holder)
  
  

Church & Dwight is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.

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