Senior Packaging Engineer — Lead Packaging Design & Logistics

Silk Road Technologies Canada; Watertown (TN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k) with company match

14 paid holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

AUTOKINITON is seeking a seasoned Packaging Engineer to join our Corporate Packaging team at our Watertown, TN facility. You will design protective packaging, analyze drawings for material needs, and determine build vs buy feasibility while collaborating with customers and sales for contracts and production support.

You will lead cross-functional teams, coordinate vendor work, and develop efficient packaging solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing, Engineering, Packaging or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of six years of experience.
• Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical audiences.
• Ability to lead presentations to leadership as required.
• Knowledge of logistics, transportation alternatives and customer expectations.
• Knowledge of manufacturing processes, product designs, safety, quality and workflow.
• Excellent organizational, analytical and communication skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office software.
• Ability to travel up to 25%.

Responsibilities

• Designs and develop protective packaging containers, dunnage and unique racks.
• Analyzes engineering drawings and specifications to determine physical requirements, quality, safety and materials needs.
• Determine cost and feasibility of producing versus purchasing packaging.
• Creates drawings, specifications, samples, and written analyses of packaging for approvals.
• Meets with customers and sales representatives to assist with contracts and production support requirements.
• Designs and develop efficient and effective packaging solutions for products.
• Analyzes engineering designs and specifications to establish physical requirements.
• Evaluates quality assurance, logistics, safety and materials alternatives.
• Determine container costs, movement costs and feasibility limitations.
• Creates engineering drawings, samples and written standards for packaging.
• May lead project teams of significant scope including other engineering colleagues.
• May coordinate vendor and/or associate work assignments on packaging projects.
• May lead cross-functional work teams.
• Interfaces on a frequent basis with packaging, operations, internal and external customers.

Skills

Packaging design

Engineering drawings

Cost analysis

Project leadership

Communication

Microsoft Office

Travel up to 25%

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Manufacturing, Engineering, Packaging or equivalent experience

Tools

CAD software

SolidWorks

Job description

AUTOKINITON is seeking a seasoned Packaging Engineer to join our Corporate Packaging team at our Watertown, TN facility. You will design protective packaging, analyze drawings for material needs, and determine build vs buy feasibility while collaborating with customers and sales for contracts and production support.

You will lead cross-functional teams, coordinate vendor work, and develop efficient packaging solutions.