Packaging Engineering Manager — Innovation & Leadership

ASR Group

Boca Raton (FL)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

ASR Group is seeking a Manager, Packaging Engineering to lead the Packaging Engineering team responsible for packaging innovation, renovation, cost optimization, sustainability, and technical support across the business. You will partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, Procurement, Commercial, Product Development, and external suppliers to deliver programs from concept to commercialization.

The role requires strong leadership, coaching, and development of engineers, plus the ability to

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Packaging Engineering, Packaging Science, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
Seven or more years of packaging development experience, preferably in food, beverage, consumer packaged goods, or a multi-site manufacturing environment.
Demonstrated experience leading, coaching, and developing engineers or other technical professionals; prior direct supervisory responsibility is strongly preferred.
Demonstrated ability to lead complex packaging programs from concept through commercialization and to manage a portfolio of competing priorities.
Broad working knowledge of packaging materials, converting processes, package testing, distribution requirements, and packaging equipment.
Experience with packaging qualification, plant trials, root-cause analysis, supplier development, specification management, and technical risk assessment.
Strong project management, organizational change, communication, and stakeholder influence skills across multiple levels of an organization.
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word; experience with CAPE, SAP, specification systems, and data-analysis tools is preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop Packaging Engineering team members by establishing clear expectations, goals, priorities, and accountability.
Provide regular feedback, coaching, and development opportunities that build technical capability, project leadership, communication, and business judgment.
Create meaningful development plans and stretch assignments that prepare team members for increasingly complex responsibilities.
Assess team capacity and capability, identify skill or resource gaps, and develop or acquire the capabilities needed to support current and future business priorities.
Build an environment of technical rigor, collaboration, ownership, continuous learning, constructive challenge, and effective knowledge sharing.
Support talent selection, onboarding, performance management, succession planning, and recognition for the Packaging Engineering team.
Translate business priorities into clear departmental goals and an executable packaging portfolio.
Prioritize packaging resources and projects based on business impact, technical risk, timing, strategic fit, and organizational capacity.
Ensure packaging programs follow the established stage-gate process and apply appropriate technical rigor, risk management, and stakeholder alignment.
Communicate portfolio status, decisions, risks, resource constraints, and recommendations to functional and business leadership.
Apply technical and business judgment to balance package performance, manufacturability, food safety and quality, cost, sustainability, supply continuity, and speed to market.