Remote Senior Packaging Engineering Lead

Perdue Farms; Salisbury (MD); Remote; USD 128,000 - 192,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Rx benefits

401(k) with employer match after 1y

Disability insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Perdue Foods is seeking a Packaging Engineering Technical Manager to lead complex packaging initiatives across the enterprise as the senior packaging SME. You will partner with Operations, R&D, Quality, Supply Chain, and procurement to establish robust standards and enable first-time-right commercialization.

This remote East Coast role requires travel up to 75% to support facilities, customers, and events, focusing on DFMEA/PFMEA, design verification, testing protocols, and continuous

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Packaging Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, or related field
• 8+ years of progressive packaging engineering experience in CPG/manufacturing
• Expertise in packaging design, qualification, commercialization, root-cause analysis, DFMEA/PFMEA, design verification, validation, and manufacturing support
• Experience developing engineering standards, validation protocols, qualification methodologies, engineering specs, and technical documentation
• Strong knowledge of statistics, DOE, process capability, MSA, and data-driven decisions
• Experience supporting manufacturing operations, packaging equipment, materials qualification, supplier collaboration, and commercialization activities
• Proven ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives and improve first-time-right commercialization

Responsibilities

• Serve as the company's packaging systems technical authority; set engineering standards and governance
• Lead DFMEA, PFMEA, design reviews, risk assessments, and engineering evaluations for new packaging systems
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and maintain packaging specs, validation strategies, qualification plans, and test protocols
• Evaluate/new materials and processes to improve packaging performance, sustainability, manufacturability, and resilience
• Lead commercialization of high-risk packaging initiatives through design verification, plant trials, and production startup
• Lead enterprise-level root-cause investigations for complex packaging failures using structured problem-solving and statistics
• Partner with manufacturing facilities to resolve chronic packaging issues and improve reliability
• Drive continuous improvement through lessons learned and best practices; mentor and develop packaging engineering talent
• Develop engineering playbooks, standards, and knowledge-management to strengthen capability
• Improve documentation quality, qualification activities, verification planning, and risk assessments across the org

Skills

Packaging engineering

Root cause analysis

DFMEA/PFMEA

Cross-functional leadership

DOE

Data-driven decisions

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's in Packaging Eng

MS degree

Packaging certifications

Job description

Perdue Foods is seeking a Packaging Engineering Technical Manager to lead complex packaging initiatives across the enterprise as the senior packaging SME. You will partner with Operations, R&D, Quality, Supply Chain, and procurement to establish robust standards and enable first-time-right commercialization.

This remote East Coast role requires travel up to 75% to support facilities, customers, and events, focusing on DFMEA/PFMEA, design verification, testing protocols, and continuous