Packaging Engineer – Food & Nutrition (Onsite Idaho Falls)

Melaleuca: The Wellness Company; Idaho Falls (ID); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Fitness center

Concierge services

Employee restaurant

Job summary

Melaleuca: The Wellness Company is seeking a Packaging Engineer to join its Idaho Falls team onsite. You will lead packaging development for food, nutrition, and consumer products, collaborating with R&D, Marketing, Manufacturing, and suppliers to move concepts to production.

The role emphasizes hands-on testing, qualification, and packaging optimization across a diverse product portfolio, with relocation support for the right candidate.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Packaging or related technical field.
• 3+ years of professional packaging experience in consumer products.
• Hands-on experience developing, testing, qualifying, or troubleshooting packaging.
• Strong analytical, technical problem-solving, project management, and organizational skills.
• Ability to work effectively across technical, manufacturing, commercial, and supplier teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication with ownership and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Develop and qualify packaging solutions for new and existing products, particularly in food, nutrition, and dietary supplements.
• Recommend packaging materials, components, and configurations based on product requirements, package performance, manufacturing capabilities, cost, and consumer needs.
• Partner with R&D, Marketing, Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Purchasing, and suppliers to move packaging from development through commercialization.
• Plan and support packaging testing, production line trials, qualifications, and troubleshooting of packaging-related manufacturing issues.
• Develop and maintain packaging specifications and evaluate components, prototypes, technical drawings, and competitive packaging.
• Conduct and document packaging studies, including compatibility, functionality, dimensional, and weight-loss testing.
• Work directly with suppliers to evaluate new materials, components, technologies, and prototypes.
• Serve as a packaging subject-matter expert on cross-functional product development teams supporting domestic and international products.

Skills

Analytical skills

Technical problem-solving

Project management

Organizational skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Packaging, Packaging Science, Engineering, Materials Science, or related field

Job description

Melaleuca: The Wellness Company is seeking a Packaging Engineer to join its Idaho Falls team onsite. You will lead packaging development for food, nutrition, and consumer products, collaborating with R&D, Marketing, Manufacturing, and suppliers to move concepts to production.

The role emphasizes hands-on testing, qualification, and packaging optimization across a diverse product portfolio, with relocation support for the right candidate.