Packaging Systems Design Engineer - Food & Beverage (Travel)

Dennis Group; Springfield (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Bonus eligibility

Retirement plans

Job summary

Dennis Group is seeking a Packaging Engineer to design, layout, install and commission packaging equipment lines for food and beverage clients. The role involves defining project requirements, estimating costs, creating flow diagrams, providing on-site construction support, and startup/commissioning of equipment.

Responsibilities span design, engineering, and site work, including cooperation with vendors, creating layouts in AutoCAD, and ensuring project delivery schedules.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, packaging, industrial, or manufacturing engineering
• 4+ years of work experience in related field
• Travel requirement – on-site construction project coordination and management with travel 50%+ of the year
• Proficiency with MS Office, MS Project, and AutoCAD
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Intellectual curiosity and a positive, can-do, team-oriented attitude
• Strong problem solving, organizing, and time management skills
• Experience in project definition, equipment design/layout, process design, equipment design, machine testing procedures, installation and commissioning of equipment
• Experience in food and beverage manufacturing or related firms is a plus

Responsibilities

• Design: Create basis of design and scope of work documents
• Develop design concepts
• Develop functional specifications for packaging lines
• Work with sanitary design concepts
• Create AutoCAD equipment layouts
• Interpret mechanical design requirements and customer specifications
• Review vendor shop drawings and discipline coordination drawings
• Engineering: Create packaging flow diagrams, material balance, packaging matrix, equipment specifications, OEE documents, speed matrix and V- Curve
• Develop budget estimates
• Create and follow up with equipment bid packages
• Develop and maintain delivery and installation schedule
• Understand size and placement of support equipment
• Provide expertise in manufacturing and packaging design principles
• Design systems including conveyance, wrapping, bagging, cartoning, filling, bottling, case packing and palletizing
• Assist in process simulation
• Develop project specific procurement documents for packaging equipment
• Assist with machine and process design
• Preparation of machine testing requirements and procedures
• Site work: Survey existing conditions
• On-site construction project coordination to assist with the installation and commissioning of packaging equipment
• Supervise equipment vendors and installation crews
• Attend and present at client meetings
• Lead factory acceptance testing at vendors shop
• Provide coaching and/or mentoring to a subordinate group when directed by supervisor.
• Must have been a part of a project team that installed a packaging system with components including conveyance, wrapping, bagging, cartoning, filling, bottling, case packing or palletizing
• Departmental growth: Be part of a growing team
• Continual research of packaging engineering best practices

Skills

Excellent communication

Time management

Problem solving

Teamwork

Intellectual curiosity

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical packaging industrial or manufacturing engineering

Tools

AutoCAD

MS Project

MS Office

Job description

Dennis Group is seeking a Packaging Engineer to design, layout, install and commission packaging equipment lines for food and beverage clients. The role involves defining project requirements, estimating costs, creating flow diagrams, providing on-site construction support, and startup/commissioning of equipment.

Responsibilities span design, engineering, and site work, including cooperation with vendors, creating layouts in AutoCAD, and ensuring project delivery schedules.