Education:
You should have a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree with honors in Mechanical, Industrial, or Electrical Engineering.
Experience:
Significant experience with high-speed food & beverage packaging operations is essential. Solid technical understanding of packaging equipment systems is necessary. Experience with all aspects of high-speed beverage packaging is highly preferred including filling, capping, labeling, multi-packing, case packing, conveying, coding & palletizing. Exposure to different package formats is preferred including PET bottles, cans, glass, caps, cartons, corrugate cases & trays, shrink film, stretch film, vacuum packs, pouches, bags, & totes. Experience with aseptic filling is a big plus.
You should possess at least 8 years relevant packaging industry experience and have a proven track record of independently managing complex packaging projects involving both packaging equipment systems and packaging materials.
Skills:
Strong written & verbal communication skills are essential.
Very strong working knowledge of AutoCAD, MS Word (complex formatting) and MS Excel (complex multi-sheet workbooks with macros) is essential. Knowledge of MS Project & MS PowerPoint preferred.
Concise technical writing ability required.
Team player with ability to get on well with others required.
Duties:
- Design & evaluation of new packaging equipment systems
- Development of plant layout drawings
- Performance of plant trials on new packaging materials and packaging machinery
- Development of technical documentation to support commercialization of new packaging equipment systems and packaging materials
- Analysis of performance of packaging equipment systems
- Package quality testing with associated statistical analysis
- Writing of technical manuals
- Preparation of installation bid specifications
- Overseeing of contractors performing site installation
- Development & management of schedules and budgets for commercialization of new packaging equipment systems and packaging materials
- Management of client relationships
- Supervision of junior packaging engineers
Location & Travel:
This position will be based at our office in Rochester, New York. However, significant travel within the USA may at times be required to meet our project workload.