CPG Packaging Engineer

Duration: Ongoing Freelance

Location: Hybrid onsite 3 days a week in Culver City. Onsite T-TH. Monday and Friday Remote.

This person will carry out packaging structural design and improvement works to achieve optimum materials usage, cube efficiency and packing costs

Responsibilities

• Make packaging structural design recommendations and/or solutions. Consider materials usage, packaging cube (size) and packing labor contents.
• Communicate packaging structural design proposals and resolve packaging structural issues with head office and regional offices.
• Provide packaging materials, dimension, and performance specifications
• Work closely with project engineering team to support key project milestone dates and ensure project start production on time.
• Work with printer and manufacturing vendor to provide packaging structural cost estimates
• Coordinate and address related packaging issues between printer and manufacturing vendor
• Verify and approve packaging structural sample (PPSR) before production start
• Propose various packaging alternatives to project engineering team. Strive to achieve best cost benefits.
• Support company sustainability initiatives to reduce plastics usage. Look for environmentally friendly packaging structural design options when applicable.
• Carry out other related works assigned by supervisor such as packaging data collection, photo shooting, carton dimension checking, etc..

Skills/Experience

• College/University graduate in packaging structural design or equivalent

• At least 5 years of experience in packaging structure design field

• Self-motivated and with good sense of responsibility

• Able to work independently.

• Proficient in Adobe CS 3 and MS office.

• Familiar with CAD, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and ArtiosCAD

• Fair command of English and communication skill