Senior Packaging Engineer

The Wellness Pet Company is on a mission to help the next generation of pet parents fulfill a shared life of wellbeing with their pets through a foundation of proven nutrition. We are committed to crafting high-quality pet food, dental chews, treats, and topper recipes that are made with the perfect balance of high-quality natural ingredients paired with the latest scientific research and technologies.

As a community of people working together, Wellies are positively obsessed with how to deliver proven health outcomes that pet parents can see and pets can taste. Wellies bring their best to work every day, come ready to collaborate, embrace the hard things, and own their outcomes.

Our Team is based out of our office in Burlington, Massachusetts, where we work in-office Monday through Thursday each week, and remotely on Fridays. Team members must reside within or be willing to relocate to a commutable distance from our Burlington office.

Our Senior Packaging Development Engineers have a unique opportunity to stretch between transformational and more transactional activities, and act as a peer functional leader within the business. This individual contributor role oversees a portfolio of packaging activities within a business category and works strategically on managing complex projects. They will make connections with business partners, packagers, and co-manufacturers and will lead trials and qualification work.

They will also represent the packaging development team in cross-functional innovation pods. This role will have exposure to a wide breadth of packaging projects, from concept to launch and with an eye toward investigating sustainable solutions within the portfolio.

• Develop and set standards around specifications and specification management, introducing innovation and design to value solutions, and sharing these solutions with our customers and business partners
• Be the voice of Packaging in the creation our near and long-term product innovation and packaging sustainability roadmaps
• Lead multiple projects, including support for new product launches, existing portfolio updates, and sustainability initiatives while building a reputation for on-time execution of packaging activities for projects
• Develop a solid knowledge of different packaging structures and applications
• Build industry relationships through supporting supplier transitions for new packaging and/or materials and by supporting 3rd party manufacturers and co-packers
• Hold expertise in the management of packaging information inputs for finished goods
• Be involved in and support trials and first production runs with manufacturing plants
• Flex your process management skills by creating protocols and success criteria for trials and first production runs
• Hone your excellent project management skills:
  Properly plan, coordinate, and report each trial, while providing technical support and expertise as needed to execute trial objectives and ensure proper documentation of each activity

Team Wellie is a group of people who are truly obsessed with all the best ways about winning for the consumer and the pets they love. And so, we are seeking an individual who:

• Is consumer focused on all they do
• Can set a vision for where we can play to win
• Continually challenge themselves to go the extra mile to get the job done, and ensure it’s done the right way as opposed to the easy way
• Hold themselves and others accountable
• Embraces continual development through the sharing of feedback and investment in learning opportunities.
• Is a true collaborator, sharing resources, and engages in healthy debate
• Celebrates differences and strives to learn from others who are different from themselves
• Gives back to their community and supports sustainable practices

In addition, we are looking for someone who meets the following criteria:

• Degree in Bachelor of Science, Packaging Science or related
• Minimum 7-10 years of experience in a packaging development and engineering role
• Packaging experience in the fast-moving consumer goods industry, ideally human or pet food flexible packaging
• A well-developed business acumen and external packaging…