Associate Packaging Engineer - Pack Ops

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Edgewell is a global team of over 6,000 visionaries, doers and makers. Our secret is people, and we have an inspiring and collaborative global force of them. Our portfolio of over 25 brands touches lives in more than 50 countries by making useful things joyful. Together, we reimagine good mornings and endless summers, strive for more sustainable ways to beautify and bond, and do it all with not only confidence but determination.

Reporting directly to our Manager of Packaging Development, you willwork to develop promotional, display & e-commerce packaging for the brands assigned of Edgewell's personal care products. The associate packaging engineer is responsible to support innovation, cost savings, sustainability initiatives and business continuity projects.

This position will serve as a contributing member of cross functional business teams. Support the development and feasibility of product concepts. The individual will monitor progress against timelines and due dates as well as provide guidance and coaching to those assigned on a project basis.

This opportunity will have a hybrid schedule (Tues, Wed, Thurs) at our Shelton, CT headquarters.

• Manage assigned package development projects, working with Brand and project teams, to meet category objectives and project ship to trade dates
• Hold discussions during product team meetings; communicate technical issues and details to the project team and management
• Provide packaging options. Develop, engineer, and test packaging components and modify as necessary to meet: consumer requirements, functional parameters, cost targets and manufacturing & shipping requirements
• Provide technical input to package design process and assure package designed for manufacturing acceptability, while realizing desirable aesthetic elements
• Execute new package designs and perform package component testing and qualification, working with suppliers, from engineering prints to making models & prototypes, through to unit and production tooling
• Work effectively with Package Engineering, Suppliers, and Manufacturing to ensure the creation of timely functional specifications
• Keep abreast of developments across appropriate packaging and manufacturing technologies

• Effective verbal / written communication, interpersonal. Ability to clearly communicate technical and non-technical information via verbal presentations and in writing
• Must be capable of quickly establishing relationships both internally and externally
• Must exhibit a true sense of urgency in responding to customers
• Must be able to communicate issues effectively to technical and non-technical personnel. (Brand, Finance, Creative, Manufacturing)
• Travel domestically and internationally as required on assigned projects. Travel requirements are 10 to 20% per month, which may include overnight travel , local travel to Allendale, NJ, Shelton, CT, and Dover, DE, as well as other manufacturing and contract manufacturing and component manufacturing sites

• BS in Mechanical, Package or Industrial Engineering, or equivalent technical degree
• Minimum of1 years of package development experience preferred, ideally with consumer products companies.
• Knowledge of packaging components and properties such as; aerosols, pumps, closures, bottles, tubes, flexible films and lamination, paperboard (folding cartons, cards, labels) plastic processing (injection and extrusion blow molding and cast and blown films
• Experience dealing with packaging component suppliers, standard test methods as ASTM, GMPs OTC test and protocols
• Must be able to effectively organize and manage workflow of multiple projects and priorities in a dynamic environment
• Must have good aesthetic “innovative” design skills.
• Must have the ability to develop and implement schedules and ensure that engineering procedures are followed.
• Must have the ability to evaluate design concepts and prove out feasibility.
• Must have the ability to manage assigned projects, monitoring the status of all elements affecting the outcome of the program
• Good computer skills. Proficiency…