Packaging Engineer Intern

Spectrum Brands; Blacksburg (VA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectrum Brands Home & Garden division seeks a packaging designer to support protective and Creative packaging and retail displays. You will help develop BOMs, coordinate with internal packaging facilities, and assist with cost improvements.

Collaborating with Marketing, Finance, and the Creative graphics team, you will prepare specifications, prototypes, mockups, and renderings to bring concepts to life and ensure manufacturability and retail readiness.

Qualifications

• Experience designing protective and creative structural packaging for retail
• Ability to create and manage Bills of Materials (BOMs) and material specs
• Experience coordinating projects with internal packaging facilities and vendors
• Ability to identify cost improvement opportunities and support finance
• Experience supporting marketing and sales with technical specs, prototypes, and renderings

Responsibilities

• Help design and develop protective and creative packaging and displays for retail presentation and distribution
• Manage packaging performance and distribution testing to ensure integrity through distribution
• Create and manage packaging and material specifications for components, packout, and palletization
• Develop production BOMs to define materials and operations processes
• Coordinate projects with internal packaging facilities to improve manufacturability and efficiency
• Assist with quotations and cost estimates for Marketing and Finance teams
• Evaluate and implement cost improvement opportunities
• Support Marketing and Sales with technical specs, prototypes, renderings, and presentations
• Collaborate with Creative graphics team to provide specifications for manufacturing programs
• Assist with administrative duties aligned with Purchasing strategies

Skills

Packaging design

BOM development

Vendor coordination

Cost reduction

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Division Information

The Home & Garden business unit of Spectrum Brands is based in St. Louis, Missouri with distribution, manufacturing and sales offices throughout the US and globe. We are a leading supplier of consumer products nationally for the home, lawn and garden, insect and weed control markets. We deliver groundbreaking products of exceptional value and top-notch quality to consumers with our well-recognized brands including Spectracide, Hot Shot, Cutter, Repel, Black Flag, Garden Safe, EcoLogic and Liquid Fence.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

Help facilitate activities around the design and development of protective and creative structural packaging and retail displays, both for retail presentation and distribution.

Manage packaging performance and distribution testing to ensure integrity through distribution and at retail.

Create and manage packaging and material specifications for components, packout, and palletization.

Develop production Bills-of-Material (BOMs) to define materials and operations process.

Coordinate projects with internal packaging facilities to facilitate manufacturability and production efficiencies.

Help team manage vendors and contract packaging operations on potential designs to determine production capabilities, methods to optimize materials, structural components, and production efficiency.

Request quotations and compile cost estimates for Marketing and Finance teams.

Evaluate and implement cost improvement opportunities.

Support Marketing and Sales teams with tools and information for customer meetings and presentations. Including specifications, prototypes, mockups, renderings.

Manage projects in coordination with the Creative graphics team to bring structural concepts to life. Provide specifications and guidelines so programs can be manufactured effectively and efficiently.

Assist with administrative duties aligned with Purchasing Department strategies.