Product Development Engineer - Thermoforming

Amcor Rigid Packaging; Neenah (WI); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Amcor is seeking a Product Development Engineer to advance thermoforming projects from concept to production tooling. You will lead tool development, optimize processes, and collaborate across engineering, sales, and quality to meet customer specs.

The role focuses on developing new thermoformed products, coordinating with co-manufacturing sites, and ensuring robust, repeatable manufacturing with strong problem-solving and collaboration skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or related field.
• 5+ years of plastics manufacturing experience (exposure to extrusion, thermoforming, tooling).
• Experience with thermoforming, part design, and mold-making preferred.
• Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, and attention to detail.
• Willingness to travel 30-50% domestically.
• Experience leading capital projects with OEMs and suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Support new product launches for thermoformed products across business segments.
• Manage new product introductions from idea to production tool commercialization.
• Collaborate with account managers, marketing, product management and external partners.
• Lead tool development and process optimization to ensure robust, repeatable tooling.
• Select vendors for tooling and sign-off acceptance.
• Work with production and quality on tool debugging and process validation.
• Establish forming windows and processing specifications.
• Provide manufacturing equipment input to enable future growth.
• Originate ideas to support R&D strategy and manage multiple priorities.

Skills

Thermoforming

Mold design

DOE experiments

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering

Tools

Mold making

CAD

Job description

Product Development Engineer - Thermoforming

Location:

Neenah, US

Deerfield, US

Department:

R&D/Innovation Management

Full-time or Part-time:

Full-Time

Job Type:

Employee

Shift:

On site

Accelerate the possible by joining a winning Amcor team that's transforming the packaging industry and improving lives around the world.

At Amcor, we unpack possibility through our innovative and responsible packaging to provide solutions that benefit our customers, our people and our planet. More than 10,000 consumers worldwide encounter our products every second and rely on us for safe access to food, medicine and other goods. We value our trust by making safety our guiding principle. It's our core value and integral to how we do business.

Beyond this core principle, our shared values and behaviors unite us as we work together to elevate customers, shape lives and protect the future. We champion our customers and help them succeed. We play to win - adapting quickly in an everchanging world - and make smart choices to safeguard our business, our communities and the people we serve for generations to come. And we invest in our world-class team, empowering our colleagues to unpack their potential, because we believe when our people grow, so does our business.

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Role Summary: As a member of AFNA's R&D team, you will support new product launches for thermoformed products across the MPS, GCI, Liquid & Dairy business segments. The purpose of this role is to manage new product introductions from the idea/prototype phase through production tool commercialization. This role works closely with account managers, marketing, product management, external design engineers, external tool engineers & mold shops, process engineers, production team members, and quality in the early phases of product development. This role is customer-facing, providing direct support to the commercial team. This role is accountable for delivering new thermoforming development projects, monitor progress, communicate internally and externally regarding key deliverables, and proactively address issues.

What you will do:

• Demonstrate Amcor's values of Safety, Integrity, Collaboration, Accountability and Results & Outperformance in your work.
• Conduct design reviews where you will identify and translate abstract customer needs into defined CTQ's and provide input on part features to improve the manufacturability of the parts.
• Lead new commercial tool introductions and oversee the process from start to finish on schedule through a stage gate process.
• Lead process development of the thermoforming operation through parameter optimization, DOE experiments, and trials that will lead to a robust and repeatable process for new product tools at both Amcor & co-manufacturing sites.
• Select vendors to fabricate the tooling and sign-off for acceptance of tooling.
• Work closely with production and quality on initial tool debugging, followed by process validation and establishing the optimal forming/trimming window and setting processing specifications.
• Work closely with engineering, sales, quality, and operations to ensure parts meet customer specifications.
• Provide expertise and recommendations on manufacturing equipment needed to support the current business and enable capability for future growth.
• Originate innovative ideas to support the R&D product innovation and technology strategy.
• Manage competing priorities while working on customer specific projects, platforms initiated by Amcor, cost take-out (CTO) initiatives and long-term product and process innovations.

Preferred Qualifications:

• A bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or related field is preferred.
• Thermoforming, part design and/or mold-making experience is preferred.
• 5+ years of industry experience in plastics manufacturing & processing (i.e., extrusion, thermoforming, and tooling).
• Strong problem-solving, critical thinking skills & attention to detail.
• 30-50% travel - mostly domestic - to customer, Amcor & co-manufacturing sites.
• Experience working in a manufacturing environment with proven results leading capital projects working with OEMs and suppliers

About Amcor

Amcor is the global leader in developing and producing responsible consumer packaging and dispensing solutions across a variety of materials for nutrition, health, beauty and wellness categories. Our global product innovation and sustainability expertise enables us to solve packaging challenges around the world every day, producing a range of flexible packaging, rigid packaging, cartons and closures that are more sustainable, functional and appealing for our customers and their consumers. We are guided by our purpose of elevating customers, shaping lives and protecting the future. Supported by a commitment to safety, over 75,000 people generate $23 billion in annualized sales from operations that span over 400 locations in more than 40 countries.

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