Packaging Engineer

Spectrum Brands is one of the largest home essentials companies trusted by millions of consumers all over the world. Our insights and innovation provide exciting solutions through our long-trusted brands like FURminator®, DreamBone®, Russell Hobbs®, Tetra®, GloFish®, Remington®, Cutter®, and Spectracide®. Structured for growth and efficiency, we can serve more consumers, customers, and stakeholders around the world every year. We are led by our values of trust, accountability, and collaboration to serve others through a common mission: we make living better at home.

The Pet Care business unit of Spectrum Brands is based in St. Louis, Missouri with distribution, manufacturing and sales offices throughout the US and globe. Owners of dogs, cats, birds, small animals, fish and reptiles rely on our brands for exceptional value and trusted results. Our industry-leading brands include Tetra®, Instant Ocean®, Marineland®, 8-in-1®, Dingo®, FURminator®, Nature’s Miracle®, GloFish®, DreamBone® and SmartBones®.

The Packaging Engineer will assist in the Global Pet Care structural design and engineering effort to maximize cost effective design solutions that exceed expectations of our internal and external customers.

• Evaluate current packaging and create cost improvement strategies for both existing and new package designs.
• Review preliminary production samples (PT samples), and provide feedback to vendors on improvements
• Creation and management of dieline drawings and other documentation relating to the structural designs and cost improvement strategies.
• Organization, planning and tracking the direction & status of projects, and interactions with cross functional groups.
• Provide key dimensional attributes of packaging structure to Supply Chain and Marketing
• Communicates and coordinates strongly with internal creative graphic designers, industrial designers, product engineers, global and regional marketing stakeholders, creative agencies and vendors.
• Take technical leadership role in concept reviews, design reviews and prototyping and production reviews to deliver the benefit of his/her experience and knowledge in various process, material, budget and design constraints.
• Strong working knowledge of factors relating to retail success of a wide variety of price points, packaging designs, and structures.
• Interaction and coordination with assigned manufacturing site or Marketing teams
• Knowledge of packaging and shipping test methods to assure packaging performance meets shipping stresses
• Participate in package testing according to ISTA standards
• Deliver packaging innovations that drive cost savings, brand retail leadership and production efficiency improvements

• Bachelor’s degree in Package Design, Industrial Design, Chemical Engineering, or Package Engineering – or background experience appropriate to the position.
• 3+ years of experience preferred
• Previous experience in consumer products packaging preferred
• Knowledgeable in CAPE, ArtiosCAD, and Adobe Illustrator

• Ability to organize, manage, and properly prioritize multiple projects
• Experience and knowledge in methods and processes that lead to cost reduction and cost effectiveness in both the early design and implementation phases.
• Strong analytical abilities
• Ability to meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• High sense of enthusiasm in creating the best designs possible in a wide range of price points.
• Strong communication and written skills
• Ability to work well in a team setting

Working conditions are normal for an office environment.

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this job/classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Spectrum Brands is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

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