Product Development Engineer or Senior

Description
At American Packaging Corporation (APC), you’ll find the packaging career you’ve been looking for. With competitive salaries, excellent benefits, 401(k) plans and tuition reimbursement programs, we nurture our employees while advancing and promoting diversity and inclusion. As the leading flexible packaging converter in North America for over a century, APC’s longstanding success is fueled from the inside out. We’re constantly seeking to improve our internal operations and were named a “Best of the Best” in the Best workplaces in the America’s awards for 12 years in a row.

It’s how and why we engage the best and brightest talent to continue propelling our shared success into the future.

Story City, IA / Cedar City, UT / OR Chili, NY

A Technical Position reporting to the COE Technical Manager. Primary Responsibility is project management in new product development activity, supporting manufacturing and quality relative to technical needs, and supporting the Center of Excellence (COE) needs for production, planning, and continuous improvement. Additionally, this role will collaborate with technical resources outside the COE regarding New Business Opportunity activity, specification development, and material development initiatives.

Position will be filled at the level commensurate with candidate qualifications & experience.

• Project Management & Ownership of COE specific needs regarding NBO activity, manufacturing and quality support, budgeting, and continuous improvement.
• Material and process research regarding technologies that match the COEs capabilities or initiatives.
• Collaborate with external technical resources on NBO activity, specification development, and material development initiatives.
• Ensure the COE has all the necessary information, specifications, and knowledge to meet customer expectations.
• Product Development, Customer interface, presentations, and primary responsibility for technical support of assigned accounts.
• Participate in customer visits to the facilities.
• Apply regulatory evaluations pertaining to packaging food safety.
• Maintain an updated file on finished roll stock, pouch, die-lines, third party, perforation, and other required specifications as well as the particular inspection/testing procedures associated with each product.
• Maintain an updated specification file on all raw materials (papers, films, inks, adhesives, etc.) used in their respective production process.
• Prepare and manage in-plant technical trials through conducting pre-trial planning meetings, directing on-line manufacture of trial materials, documenting results of trials and ensuring trial results are met.
• Research and qualify new and alternate materials.
• Interacting with Customers, Management, Marketing, Sales, and Suppliers
• Participate in training, embrace concepts of and actively practice the SPOT Safety Program fundamentals to aid APC’s efforts to achieve a zero-accident rate.
• Attend and participate in all company mandated meetings.
• Business travel required.
• Other duties as assigned.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Bachelor’s degree (B.

A.) in a Technical Field (Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry, etc.) from a four-year college or university; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Experience with printing and laminations for flexible packaging using materials such as papers, films, foils, and sealants is desired.

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information predominantly technical in nature and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the…