Lead Packaging Design Engineer - Wellness

gsknch; New Jersey; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Haleon is seeking a Lead Packaging Design Engineer to drive packaging innovation for the Wellness category. You will own the technical design process from concept to detailed engineering, employing 3D CAD, FEA, and CFD analyses to ensure high quality, manufacturability, and cost effectiveness.

Responsibilities include developing packaging DOEs, collaborating with industrial designers and suppliers, and managing risk and timelines across projects.

Qualifications

• BS degree in Engineering.
• 10 years' experience in mechanical design engineering.
• Proficiency in 3D design systems and analysis.
• FEA and CFD experience.
• Fundamental mechanical design and tooling design knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Lead packaging design engineering for the Wellness category, ensuring quality, creativity, and timeliness.
• Develop packaging concepts and detailed designs in coordination with engineering and design teams.
• Perform 3D CAD development, FEA, CFD analyses, and tolerance assessment.
• Lead DOE development for packaging and manage supplier recommendations and cost estimates.
• Ensure manufacturability, cost targets, and sustainability across packaging solutions.

Job description

Welcome to Haleon. We're a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we've grown, evolved and are now entering an exciting new chapter - one filled with bold ambitions and enormous opportunity.

Our trusted portfolio of brands - including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum® - lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.

Now it's time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose - to deliver better everyday health with humanity - at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture.

About the role

The Lead Packaging Design Engineer serves as the packaging steward for the Wellness category, ensuring all deliverables meet or exceed quality, creative, and product requirements within established timelines and budgets.

Key responsibilities :

• Innovation Steward
• Understand that the packaging design and technology development enables rapid creation and development of product innovations.
• Working knowledge in inventing, developing, and creating intellectual property around ownable packaging innovation
• Packaging Concept Feasibility and Detailed Design
• Partner with Lead Packaging Industrial Designer to execute robust technical engineering and development of packaging and tooling.
• Technical engineering and development including but is not limited to: 3D CAD using good engineering practices
• FEA using first principles to understand tolerance ranges and predict performance of the system
• Statistical dimensional analysis
• FMEA to identify and mitigate technical risks through each step of the product lifecycle
• Specification generation
• Understanding and execution of different prototyping materials and methods for early design evaluation
• Lead / Support development of packaging DOE's for specific unit operations as part of the overall technical readiness.
• Search new applicable technologies both within and outside our industry to continuously evaluate best practice and support product innovation.
• Understand and provide comprehensive feasibility with data of assigned concept that defines function, manufacturability, component cost, tooling estimates, preliminary development lead time, risk and global consistency.
• Technical Management: supporting all aspects of the development process.
• Technical Feasibility
• Packaging 3D CAD development.
• Packaging cost estimating and technical profiles.
• Supplier recommendation /selection.
• Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (Pre-Design Turnover and Post Business Award).
• Support / lead value analysis into every new development ensuring the packaging construction and design provides the most cost effective and sustainable way to achieve design criteria but also provide the best function and quality.
• Work with Head of Design and Engineering to execute assigned technical sections of projects through Technical Proof of Manufacturability to ensure design and construction meet all Haleon engineering requirements.
• Execute packaging test plans for all assigned technical sections.
• Work with Package Developers and Engineering to define specifications, design criteria and defect ranges to ensure optimal process flow from manufacture of components through filling and assembly.
• Develop packaging specifications and validate that technical drawings clearly identify all aspects required to define the assigned technical unit operation.
• Work with Engineering to ensure designed packaging components assemble efficiently at optimal rate of production.
• Keep informed through colleagues, vendors, journals, professional affiliations, and seminars of new materials, processes, and procedures.
• Timeline Management
• Support the Package Developers with design / development schedules and identify risks or ways to mitigate risks to support a component availability requirement.
• Identify and inform of any risks and or delays during development.
• Direct and Indirect Management
• Work with external suppliers and vendors to develop detailed engineering designs, analysis and custom solutions.
• Build and cultivate relationships with Manufacturing and Engineering.

Basic Qualifications

• BS degree in Engineering.
• 10 years' experience in mechanical design engineering.
• Proficiency in computer systems including 3D Design Systems and Analysis, MS Excel, Word, Outlook and Timeline management systems.
• Computer Aided Engineering - FEA and / or CFD, demonstrated ability to generate and interpret results
• Demonstrated knowledge of fundamental mechanical design and / or tooling design
• Ability to demonstrate strong fundamental engineering skills
• Technical competency in analysis of geometric objects in 2D and 3D dimensions including understanding of clearanc