Job Description
Job Title: R&D Packaging Engineer (Hybrid) Location: Kansas City, MO 64118 Duration: 06 Months Shift: M-F Key responsibilities: - This is an ITQ Dynamic Talent Bench, full-time track, 6-month contract position located in Kansas City, Missouri. Candidates must reside within commuting distance of Kansas City, Missouri and be willing to work in a manufacturing environment.
- This assignment is hybrid in that on-site work will be performed at a manufacturing site located in Kansas City, and they can work from home when not needed on-site. Personal or agency provided technology will be used.
Job Summary: - The Experienced Packaging Engineer will be a part of a fully integrated cross-functional team, working closely with R&D Platforms, Operations, Engineering, Quality, Sourcing, and Marketing. The team is responsible for re-launching a brand and advancing those priorities.
- The role is very focused on successfully delivering against key development projects, generating a pipeline of new ideas and supporting key system needs at our production facilities while maintaining high quality standards for our materials
Key accountabilities: - Build strong relationships with key businesses and platform partners in order to support new product launches and other key initiatives
- Proactively lead collaboration with cross-functional partners to develop margin improvement and technical innovation opportunities
- Conduct and/or manage commissioning, start-up, supplier experiments, trials, and analyses to validate and advance technical packaging opportunities
- Build internal and external networks, relationships and understanding of internal and external customer needs to effectively influence and gain support for initiatives
- Effective partner with supplier resources against key initiatives, showing a bias for results
- Provide effective communication and documentation of work including technical plans, specification creation/modification, experimental reports, financial analysis, and management updates
- Build and leverage technical depth of technical material knowledge to drive innovation and margin improvements
- Collaborate and influence both internally and externally
Minimum Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Packaging or related field
- 5+ years of Package Engineering experience
- Solid understanding of product commercialization process from packaging design to manufacturing
- Demonstrated expertise in application of process and package engineering solutions that apply to consumer-packaged goods
- Experience creating technical packaging drawings
- Experience with working on team projects at corporate and plant level, and with engineering firms, vendors and contractors
- Good interpersonal and communication skills required to effectively network face-to-face with business teams
- Self-directed, motivated and good time management
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Products, Office 365, SharePoint, TOPS
Preferred qualifications: - Experience in the manufacturing industry, food industry, or related field
- Experience in new production startup process
- Experience using Interspec, Optiva or a similar Product Lifecycle Management system
Job Tags
Full time, Contract work, For contractors, Work at office, Work from home, Shift work,