Packaging Engineer

Request Foods is a leading food and co‑packing manufacturer with over 35 years of experience serving many of the world’s leading food companies, retailers, and restaurants. The company is privately owned and runs its business with Christian values, offering a career in food production, customer support, quality leadership, and administrative or technical activities.

• Medical
• Vision
• 401k
• Paid Paternity Leave
• Immediate Holiday Pay
• Paid Time Off
• Profit Sharing

We are seeking a Packaging Engineer with expertise in the food industry. The Packaging Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, testing, and implementing packaging solutions that ensure product integrity, optimize cost, and support sustainability goals. This role will cross‑collaborate with manufacturing, procurement, quality, and customers, building relationships with packaging equipment suppliers to deliver innovative and efficient packaging systems for new and existing products.

• Analyzes technical malfunctions, makes suggestions for improvement, tests and implements necessary improvements by coordinating the activities of all concerned departments.
• Optimizes the operation of manufacturing processes by finding the optimum packaging and machine settings to improve performance and reduce costs.
• Participates in the analysis of quality problems, handles relations with the maintenance and production departments for optimization purposes and ensures follow‑up to solutions.
• Manages and updates documentation including specifications, test results, and change controls for all existing packaging used throughout the manufacturing facility.
• Documents and communicates quality issues, works with suppliers to mitigate and/or eliminate specification deviations.
• Works directly with sales and product development teams for new product/packaging requests from customers.
• Supports new product development and commercialization projects by providing packaging expertise.
• Organizes and tracks industrial tests and defines the parameters of production of new products in collaboration with the Plant Manager, maintenance, and scheduling.
• Reports, tests and validates the manufacturing feasibility of new products.
• Consults with vendors in the development of packaging for components and sources materials; works directly with packaging suppliers and production to execute trials to ensure production readiness.
• Creates project plans and harnesses resources to ensure project milestones are met within expectations of timeline, quality and budget.
• Determines material, equipment, and packaging to be used for specific projects and ensures it meets the needs of the customer, production, and maintenance while maintaining functionality.
• Studies product design, customer requirements, and determines performance standards; conducts tests to ensure safe and satisfactory product performance.
• Maintains observation of new equipment/packaging/product once implemented until it reaches the expected performance level consistently.
• Trained in understanding the mechanics of the production line machines to design and optimize new and current packaging formats and line efficiency.
• Supports packaging lot traceability where applicable by establishing procedures and monitoring compliance.
• Provides troubleshooting of packaging issues on the production line and offers short‑ and long‑term solutions with maintenance and manufacturing teams.
• Builds relationships with packaging equipment suppliers supporting new products or changes, ensuring clear communication to determine if change parts, machine modifications or requisition is needed and follows the process through to implementation.

• Bachelor’s Degree (B.S) in Packaging Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related field.
• Minimum of 3 Years of CPG packaging and equipment experience.
• Strong knowledge of packaging materials (plastics, paperboard, films, etc.).
• Familiarity with food safety standards (e.g., HACCP, SQF, BRC), packaging machinery and automation systems.
• Proficiency in CAD software (e.g., Solid Works, Artios
  
  CAD) and packaging testing protocols (e.g., ASTM, ISTA).
• Self‑motivated, hands‑on individual…