Quality Packaging Engineer

Atrium; Holmdel Township (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

PTO

Job summary

Atrium is seeking a Quality Packaging Engineer in Holmdel Township, NJ to enhance packaging quality and supplier performance. This role involves collaborating with various teams to ensure compliance with quality standards.

The ideal candidate will have over 3 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree in Packaging Engineering or a related field. Benefits include medical coverage and PTO.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in packaging quality or packaging engineering.
• Hands‑on with packaging testing and supplier quality.
• Experience with domestic and international suppliers is essential.

Responsibilities

• Qualify packaging suppliers through assessments and approvals.
• Support packaging validation activities including leakage testing.
• Investigate packaging-related failures and lead root cause analysis.

Skills

Packaging quality

Supplier quality

Component validation

Advanced Excel skills

Testing methodologies

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Packaging Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Materials Science

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Client Overview

Our client is a growing company known for creating innovative personal care products sold across major retail and global markets. They are currently expanding their team and looking to add a Quality Packaging Engineer.

Salary/Hourly Rate

$120k - $130k

Position Overview

The Quality Packaging Engineer will support packaging quality, supplier quality, component validation, and finished goods performance for consumer product packaging. This role will work closely with Quality, Packaging, Engineering, R&D, Operations, suppliers, and contract manufacturers to ensure packaging components meet quality, safety, regulatory, and performance standards.

The position may require occasional travel to a nearby corporate office as well as up to 20% domestic travel to suppliers, contract manufacturers, or distribution centers.

Responsibilities Of The Quality Packaging Engineer

• Qualify packaging suppliers through assessments, sample approvals, first article inspections, and performance monitoring.
• Support packaging validation activities, including dimensional testing, leakage/vacuum testing, durability testing, torque/fit testing, and environmental conditioning.
• Investigate packaging-related failures such as leakage, pump malfunction, component defects, or production issues.
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective/preventive action activities related to packaging quality concerns.
• Support line trials, engineering runs, and new product launches to ensure packaging is manufacturable and fit for use.
• Partner with Operations and Manufacturing teams to troubleshoot packaging issues during filling, assembly, and production startup.
• Track, analyze, and report packaging quality data, nonconformance trends, and supplier performance metrics.
• Maintain packaging-related documentation within the Quality Management System and support change control for packaging updates.
• Ensure packaging components meet applicable GMP, regulatory, and quality standards.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external suppliers on packaging improvements related to durability, sustainability, cost, and process capability.

Required Experience/Skills For The Quality Packaging Engineer

• 3+ years of experience in packaging quality, packaging engineering, supplier quality, or component validation.
• Hands‑on experience with packaging testing, line trials, supplier quality, and component qualification.
• Experience working with domestic and/or international suppliers, contract manufacturers, or distribution centers.
• Understanding of packaging materials such as plastics, glass, metal, paperboard, and related manufacturing processes, including molding and printing.
• Advanced Excel skills and proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.

Preferred Experience/Skills For The Quality Packaging Engineer

• Experience in cosmetics, beauty, personal care, CPG, or consumer product manufacturing is strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with ISO 9001, cosmetic GMP, ISTA testing, SPC, AQL, CAPA, and quality system documentation is preferred.
• Experience using QMS systems is preferred.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Packaging Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related technical field preferred.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision.
• PTO and many more!