Packaging Engineer Westfield

Company: Proampac
Location: Chicopee
Posted on: September 2, 2020

Job Description:

ProAmpac is a leading global flexible packaging company with comprehensive product offerings. Providing creative packaging solutions, industry-leading customer service and award-winning innovation to a diverse global marketplace. We are guided in our work by four core values that are the basis for our success: Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement. The Packaging Engineer is responsible for creating, developing, designing, testing, products, processes, for new and existing products/markets while ensuring quality, cost, and on time delivery of new/improved products to the market. * Research, Design, develop, test, control, analyze, create specifications, document, implement, products and structures for new or improved products; monitoring from pilot to scale up. * Conduct lab & pilot scale research that supports product and process innovation and improvement, and scaling that research to commercial processes; * Collaborate with global and national brands, cross-functional teams, and material & process suppliers to develop specifications, evaluate, and control properties of substrates, materials and processes; * Support the qualification of substrates, development materials, and processes used in products * Handles complex issues, provides technical support and knowledge to solve issues and assists with projects; * Utilize project management skills to effectively drive product development and innovation projects including project summary updates, innovation gating process documentation, project planning grant charts, preparing pertinent IP collateral, ensuring freedom-to-use documentation, * Complete cost analyses for projects to ensure opportunities for commercial success exist. * Support marketing requests for product performance and technical information; * Support and/or lead customer innovation sessions aimed at developing new product concepts * Write product evaluation protocols, perform product testing, and author engineering reports with recommendations. * Validate materials and processes in accordance with FDA standards; * Keep abreast of and identify new developments and technologies in materials and processes * May act as first line supervisor or team leader, provides coaching and mentoring Education: * Bachelor's Degree required, preferably chemical engineering, paper/pulp. Statistics and statistical process control training. Qualifications & Skills: * Previous technical service, process control, quality engineering, or product development and leadership preferred. * Knowledge of continuous improvement methodologies required such as Six Sigma, Lean, etc. preferred. * Experience with FDA requirements and ISO standards. * Work independently with minimal supervision, ability to resolve complex technical issues * Experience using Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point, Teams), and Outlook. * Maintains strict confidentiality and protects privacy of confidential/sensitive information. * Exceptional time management and organization skills. * Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively (verbal, written, and presentations) with executive leadership, staff, and internal and external clients. * Proactive; exercises sound judgment and decision making; able to identify problems and needs and develop solutions and/or options. * Excellent interpersonal skills. * Self-confident, self-motivated polished professional who thrives in a challenging, fast-paced environment. Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Protected Veterans/Disabled

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