Structural Designer — Corrugated Packaging & Displays

We're looking for a Structural Designer to own complex, high-value corrugated packaging and point-of-purchase display projects from initial customer input through production-ready design.

You'll work independently across ArtiosCAD, CAPE, and Esko Studio tools to develop customer requirements into creative, structurally sound, cost-effective, and manufacturable solutions, while partnering directly with sales and plant operations staff.

This role is central to the Company’s mission of providing value-added solutions to its  this role you will create packaging designs, have customer contact to manage design goals, manage the design project pipeline in Esko Web Center, and mentor junior designers.

As part of a small, close-knit design team rather than a large corporate design department, you'll wear multiple hats, work directly with the people making and shipping the product, and see your designs through from concept to the production floor.

We're looking for someone who combines creative talent, technical and CAD skills, and industry fluency along with the judgment to balance brand impact, structural performance, and manufacturing cost with little supervision.

• Design corrugated packaging, retail displays, and merchandising solutions in ArtiosCAD, from concept through production-ready sampling, structural drawings, and specifications.
• Build palletization and load configurations in CAPE to optimize packaging performance, transportation efficiency, warehouse space, and shipping cost.
• Produce photorealistic 3D renderings and virtual mockups in Esko Studio for customer presentations and design approval leading to prototyping.
• Turn each customer's brand goals, protection needs, and retailer rules into a structural concept Wunderlich can manufacture efficiently and with the utmost quality.
• Refine designs to ensure simple, smooth, efficient production on the manufacturing lines, and minimize raw materials waste.

• Utilize industry-standard design room tools and equipment, including CNC/CAD sample-cutting machines (Kongsberg)
• Coordinate ISTA and UNPOP/DOT package performance testing with third-party labs — scoping test requirements, interpreting results, and translating findings into design adjustments for sales, manufacturing, and customers.
• Create and maintain the proper documentation for designs and tests

• Effectively partner with sales staff and customers to define project objectives, conduct design reviews, and secure approvals.
• Provide specific, expert technical advice & support to sales and customer service on layouts, estimating, die-making, order specifications, and material handling.
• Effectively coordinate with plant operations on die design, machine capabilities, vendor capabilities, and print/die-cut set-up for new orders.
• Willingly manage occasional small-run production & “customer emergency” needs which cannot be mass-produced, using design room equipment, and in coordination with plant management.

• Manage multiple concurrent design projects in Esko Web Center, from concept through production, keeping status, files, and approvals current.
• Maintain organized, up-to-date project files, specifications, and documentation; review drawings for accuracy and standards compliance.
• Order cutting die tooling to meet approved design specifications and manufacturing line compatibility, and ensure delivery in time to meet customer due dates
• Assist plant management to develop and analyze cost data, including run-speed estimates, material usage, and waste factors, from a design perspective.
• Take ownership of the design function; ensure the success of the most complex, highest-value projects with direct lines of communication to Company leadership and with customers to advise on design form, function, and materials
• Mentor and train junior designers as necessary; review work for quality and adherence to standards

• High school diploma or GED required;
  Bachelor's Degree in Packaging Engineering, Packaging Science, Industrial Design, Graphic Design, or a related field preferred —…