What are the responsibilities and job description for the Structural Design Spec Packaging position at R.R. Donnelley?
Company Description
RRD is a leading global provider of marketing, packaging, print, and supply chain solutions that elevate engagement across the complete customer journey. The company offers the industry's most trusted portfolio of creative execution and world-wide business process consulting, with services designed to lower environmental impact. With 22,000 clients, including 93% of the Fortune 100, and 32,000 employees across 28 countries, RRD brings the expertise, execution, and scale designed to transform customer touchpoints into meaningful moments of impact.
Job Description
Senior structural designer who serves as technical design contact for key client in the consumer electronics space. Participate in closing new business by creating and delivering packaging design and prototype solution for new and existing products. Communicate with stakeholders, including industrial designer, product developers and costing teams. Participates in and leads the design phase of a project beginning with analysis of the objectives, creative structural design and engineering of working prototypes, and on into production while meeting all manufacturing criteria and customer expectations. Provides visual solutions for packaging, advertising, and sales support needs by creating designs and copy layouts.
Responsibilities :
- Lead packaging design projects from inception to production. Maintain effective communication with client engineering team and internal global cross functions teams including sales, manufacturing and project managers.
- Collaborate with Product Design Engineers and Designers on new products.
- Design and engineer solutions in a wide variety of formats including folding cartons, rigid box, wrapped corrugated and other materials.
- Design prototype visual communication in formats such as mockups, 3D drawings, tech drawing and instructions.
- Maintain solid working knowledge of RRD capabilities and processes which will require international travel.
- Create high-end flawless packaging prototypes for customer presentations using a Zund cutting table including v-grooves and finishing details such as deboss.
- Interpret concrete and abstract directions from clients, sales and management to develop solutions that exceed customer expectations. Effectively communicate (both internally and externally) reasons behind decisions.
- Maintain clear organization of large ongoing projects that involve multiple components and revisions.
- Remain up to date on new packaging trends, materials and technology
- Troubleshoot existing problems and provide creative cost-effective solutions.
- Identify cost-saving opportunities related to materials, design, labor and efficiency.
- Performs other related duties and participates in special projects as assigned.
Qualifications
Additional Information
Thenational pay range for this role is $73,500 to $120,800 / year. The payrange may beslightly lower or higher based on the geographic location of the hired employee. The actual pay offered may vary based upon, but not limited to : education, skills, experience, proficiency, performance, shift and location. In addition to base salary, depending on the role, the total compensation package. RRD offers benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, disability insurance, 401(k) with match, life insurance and other voluntary supplemental insurance coverages, plus tuition assistance,maternity leave, adoption assistance, and employer / partner discounts.
RRD is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability / veterans
Salary : $73,500 - $120,800
