Product Development Engineer

Product Development Engineer

Accelerate the possible by joining a winning Amcor team that's transforming the packaging industry and improving lives around the world.

At Amcor, we unpack possibility through our innovative and responsible packaging to provide solutions that benefit our customers, our people and our planet. More than 10,000 consumers worldwide encounter our products every second and rely on us for safe access to food, medicine and other goods. We value their trust by making safety our guiding principle. It's our core value and integral to how we do business.

Beyond this core principle, our shared values and behaviors unite us as we work together to elevate customers, shape lives and protect the future. We champion our customers and help them succeed. We play to win – adapting quickly in an ever changing world – and make smart choices to safeguard our business, our communities and the people we serve for generations to come.

And we invest in our world-class team, empowering our colleagues to unpack their potential, because we believe when our people grow, so does our business.

Position Overview:

Leads the planning process of new products and/or improvements to existing products, focusing on project concerns such as cost, completion dates, resource allocation, quality/reliability, resource allocation, budget allocation, etc.

Essential

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Ability to run multiple high-profile projects simultaneously
• Provides technical leadership to various engineering projects and coordinate across all disciplines while giving work direction and inputs to business functional groups and provide leadership in resolving complex technical issues
• Must have excellent communication skills in both written and verbal form
• Develops and implements resource plans in order to ensure the proper resources are allocated for successful completion of the project(s)
• Must be able to manage both internal and external customers
• Must have a good understanding of SPC and quality practices
• Must have the ability to lead a team of individuals that will not be reporting directly to you
• Must have a good understanding of EBM, ISBM, IBM, and IM technologies
• Plastic processing experience is a plus
• Tooling build experience a plus
• Computer skills are very important... Excel, Word, Outlook, MS Project, is a must... CAD background is a plus
• Capable of developing and managing project budgets
• Ability to work within a procedure-based organization but capable of extending outside those boundaries if required
• Willingness to make decisions and to learn from them when required
• Makes decisions and sets direction based on financial measures and strategies while seeing the big picture that is necessary to understand Amcor's strategy, competitive position, and business environment
• Creates clear policies and professional and engineering/design principles to address differing and variable situations and teaches these to others. Ensures these become standards for department
• Understands and anticipates needs of customers; drives product opportunities
• Has influence on commercial decisions
• Operate within budgets of approximately $50K-$1M
• Develops, tracks and meets capital and expense budget for their responsibility
• Adapts to changing workplace needs and works cross functionally continually improve processes and employee engagement.
• Monitors and maintains a clear understanding of project needs, hurdles, and workload

Qualifications:

• Education:
  
  Bachelor's Degree In Engineering or related field; packaging discipline preferred
• 8 or more years of experience working with injection and blow molding equipment, tooling, and processing
• Deep technical knowledge in this industry, and understanding of industry trends and how they apply to customers
• Travel 50%

Competencies:

Amcor Leadership Framework Competencies

Core Competencies:

• Customer Focus
• Learning on the Fly
• Interpersonal Savvy
• Drive for Results

3-5 Applicable ALF

Competencies:

Managerial Courage

Motivating Others

Building Effective Teams

Innovation Management

Dealing with Ambiguity

Relationships:

• Commercial and Operations stakeholders.
• Corporate R&D
• Upper management, peers, Design team, and Project Management team.
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