Senior Packaging Engineer

Adept Group
Boston, MA Other
POSTED ON 4/7/2024
About Adept Group
 
Adept Group offers an award-winning workplace for exceptional packaging industry talent. We work on a range of innovative projects for iconic brand owners. Our technically gifted team collaborates to produce unparalleled results.
 
We offer a great place to showcase your expertise and build upon your skillset. All while having fun with amazing people from a variety of diverse backgrounds. We’re driven, inspirational and most importantly, human.
 
We offer a flexible, creative culture focusing on 3 pillars - our environment, our communities, and our health and well-being. Join a team committed to building a sustainable future!
 
The Opportunity
 
Adept Group is looking for a Senior Packaging Engineerin Food and Beverage. This is a contract/1099 opportunity for 20 hours per week. Must be in the Greater Boston, MA area with some travel required.
Key Responsibilities 
  • Leads complex projects or assignments within large projects with minimal supervision for projects including packaging in a pilot line for lab equipment installation and qualifications.
  • Lead packaging qualification activities by generating packaging protocols, overseeing test execution, analyzing test data, and authoring qualification reports. 
  • Provide technical expertise for packaging risk assessments and failure mode/root cause analyses. 
  • Lead the improvement and standardization of packaging on existing products with focus on performance and cost effectiveness 
  • Plan and execute a design of experiments. Perform statistical analysis on data generated from experiments and write final reports. 
  • Initiate and coordinate packaging line trials including planning, conducting and post-trial activities. 
  • Partner with purchasing and production departments to determine costs and feasibility of producing proposed packaging 
  • Lead internal and external relationships to effectively influence and gain support for initiatives. 
  • Able to identify areas of cost savings or improvements to new and on market products 
Requirements 
  • Bachelor's degree in packaging engineering. 
  • 8 - 10 years packaging engineering experience, food & beverage preferred. 
  • Experience supporting machine qualification.
  • Expertise in paperboard carton development and flow wrapping required.
  • Technical depth on a packaging material, format, or process. 
  • Advanced understanding of the full packaging development and qualification process (or stage gate process). 
  • Advanced knowledge of resource planning for trials.  
  • Advanced knowledge of FDA and ISO requirements related to packaging and labeling, ensuring robust package validation and qualification. 
  • Advanced understanding of project timeline development. 
  • Demonstrated effective communications (verbally and in writing) across internal and external teams. 
  • Demonstrated ability to multitask and manage time efficiently and effectively across multiple activities and tasks simultaneously.
Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.    

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