Packaging Engineer

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** Packaging Engineer
**** Who We Are
** Essity is a global leader in health and hygiene headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with a North American headquarters located in Philadelphia, PA. We are a multi-billion-dollar company with a purpose to break barriers to well-being for the benefit of consumers, patients, care givers, and customers across the globe. We do this through innovations in our Professional Hygiene, Consumer Goods, and Health & Medical business units that provide hygiene and health solutions to over a billion people every day worldwide.

Working at Essity is more than a career, it is where you will play your part in a better future, to improve well-being for people and have opportunities to drive positive change for society and the environment.  As an employee at Essity, you will belong to a team where you feel valued, are safe, supported to grow and challenged to generate business results in a friendly and open atmosphere.
** About the Role
** Essity Health and Medical Solutions North America is currently seeking a Packaging Engineer in our manufacturing plant in Dover, DE (Playtex plant).We’re looking for people who embody our values, aren’t afraid to challenge, innovate, experiment, and move at a fast pace. We’re always looking for ways to improve our products and ourselves. If this is you, we’d love to talk.
** What You Will Do
*** Develop, engineer, and test packaging components. Modify as necessary to meet consumer requirements, functional parameters, costing targets, manufacturing & shipping requirements.
* Execute new packaging systems from concept through qualification working with internal teams and suppliers
* Provide packaging options and risk mitigation strategies.
* Provide technical input to package design process and assure package designed for manufacturing acceptability.
* Be accountable for meeting all assigned Packaging Engineering deliverables.
* Ensure the quality of packaging produced is consistent with EPC Quality standards.
* Work with manager to ensure the Packaging development process is functioning efficiently by assessing current processes and identifying ways to streamline or improve.
* Support appropriate product development and quality related projects: both internal and with external suppliers.
* Ability to effectively communicate with cross functional groups located both internally and externally.
* Creates and presents reports for management, and other internal groups.
* Support investigation of consumer complaints (customer/consumer) to meet applicable standard operating procedures.
* Demonstrates ability to problem solve and troubleshoot in an automated production environment.
* Ability to use data and packaging engineering tools to support recommendations.
* Ability to effectively interact with vendors, contract manufacturers, suppliers and cross functional teams.
* Ability to write, review, revise and implement Packaging SOP's.
* Ability to write, review, revise and approve new packaging specifications, bill of materials, and packaging assembly specs##
** Who You Are
*** Ability to develop and execute innovative solutions for new cost savings ideas. Highly analytical and skilled in achieving operational efficiencies and committed to quality.
* Must have the ability to develop new innovative lower cost solutions and conduct feasibility analysis with goal of recommending projects to implement.
* Must be familiar with various manufacturing processes and mold types.
* Must have ability to understand modeling & prototype development processes through to unit and production tooling and qualification stages.
* Must have the ability to evaluate designs concepts and prove out feasibility.
* Must have the ability to manage third party relationships.
* Effective verbal / written communication, interpersonal, and influencing skills.
* Ability to clearly communicate technical and non-technical information via verbal presentations and in writing.
* Must be a highly credible individual capable of rapid engagement, and of bridging relationships between R&D and other functional areas.
* Excellent negotiating and influencing skills.
* Good computer skills. Proficiency with Word,…