Mechanical Sustaining Senior Engineer Vertical Packaging

Sealed Air designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient. We strive to foster a caring, high-performance growth culture that will deliver consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerate our performance – a culture where accountability is clear and aligned, and where we reward business outcomes and impact.

That culture guides everything we do, including how we partner with our customers and suppliers, how we attract and retain top talent, and how we create and deliver value to our stakeholders. In 2025, Sealed Air generated $5.4 billion in sales and has approximately 16,100 employees who serve customers in 119 countries/territories. To learn more, visit

As a Mechanical Equipment Sustaining Senior Engineer, you will serve as the mechanical engineering owner for Vertical Pouch Packaging (VPP) equipment throughout its lifecycle—from commercialization and production through sustaining support, continuous improvement, and equipment obsolescence.

You will work closely with Research & Development and cross-functional teams to transition equipment into sustaining engineering, troubleshoot field and manufacturing issues, improve equipment reliability and performance, and develop mechanical modifications that keep equipment operating safely and efficiently.

This role combines hands‑on mechanical engineering, equipment troubleshooting, 3D CAD design, root cause analysis, project management, and technical documentation. You will work with automated equipment used in demanding manufacturing environments where equipment uptime, reliability, and customer performance are critical.

• Own the mechanical engineering support and lifecycle of assigned VPP equipment, driving improvements in reliability, uptime, serviceability, safety, throughput, and cost.
• Investigate equipment performance and field issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventive solutions that minimize downtime.
• Design and implement mechanical modifications to commercialized equipment, including components, assemblies, mechanisms, and machine improvements using 3D CAD.
• Partner with R&D as equipment transitions from development into sustaining engineering, ensuring designs, documentation, and support requirements are complete and production-ready.
• Lead equipment improvements, engineering changes, component obsolescence, supplier changes, and technology upgrades throughout the equipment lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain mechanical drawings, 3D models, assemblies, bills of material, equipment manuals, spare parts recommendations, and other technical documentation.
• Partner with Supply Chain and inventory teams to evaluate spare parts requirements, recommended inventory levels, component availability, and purchasing considerations.
• Support equipment troubleshooting, commissioning, field investigations, and customer or manufacturing issues as needed.
• Collaborate with R&D, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Technical Service, Field Service, suppliers, and other engineering teams to resolve complex equipment issues and implement sustainable solutions.

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of engineering experience with automated equipment, industrial machinery, packaging equipment, manufacturing equipment, or sustaining engineering.
• Experience with mechanical design and 3D CAD, including creating and modifying parts, assemblies,…