Innovation Industrial Design/Development Manager; Customer Foodservice Packaging Solutions - R
Listed on 2026-07-27
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Engineering
Product Engineer
Location: St. Louis
Your Job
The Innovation Industrial Design/Development Manager is responsible for identifying and solving high-value customer challenges through innovative food service packaging solutions. This role partners cross-functionally with sales, customers, and product development to develop differentiated products that create mutual benefit and drive profitable growth.
Your Job
The Innovation Industrial Design/Development Manager is responsible for identifying and solving high-value customer challenges through innovative food service packaging solutions. This role partners cross-functionally with sales, customers, and product development to develop differentiated products that create mutual benefit and drive profitable growth.
This individual applies Principle-Based Management (PBM) by leveraging customer insight, ownership, and rapid experimentation to move ideas from concept to commercialization with speed and discipline.
What You Will Do
Create Value for Customer
- Partner with sales and customers to identify unmet needs and high-value problems in food service packaging.
- Translate real-world customer applications into innovative packaging concepts.
- Build credibility and trust with customers through deep understanding of application requirements.
- Lead the custom application development process from concept through hand off to product development.
- Develop and refine packaging designs that meet performance, manufacturability, and cost objectives.
- Leverage rapid prototyping and iterative learning to accelerate speed to market.
- Take full accountability for project outcomes, timelines, and execution within application innovation.
- Manage multiple development projects with strong organization and prioritization.
- Deliver outcomes that translate into commercial success and customer value.
- Work across sales, R&D, engineering, and manufacturing.
- Balance independent ownership with collaborative engagement.
- Communicate clearly to align stakeholders and drive decisions.
- Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Product Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering
- Experience in packaging concept development
- Project management experience
- Ability to build relationships with customers and internal teams
- Experience with Solid Works and Microsoft Office
- Knowledge of plastics and sustainable materials
- Manufacturing or tooling experience
- R&D experience
- Sustainable packaging expertise
- Experience working with sales and customers
- Thermoforming experience
- Portfolio of prior work
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance.
Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
For this role, we anticipate paying 90, per year. This role is eligible for variable pay based on performance
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information , aquí, or tu).
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