Automotive Packaging Engineer

We’re proud of our Tier 1 supplier legacy for manufacturing propulsion-agnostic, structural automotive components, and assemblies around the globe.

To help us drive excellence, you’ll get to:

• Designs and develop protective packaging containers, dunnage and unique racks
• .Analyzes engineering drawings and specifications to determine physical requirements, quality, safety and materials needs
• .Determine cost and feasibility of producing versus purchasing packaging
• .Creates drawings, specifications, samples, and written analyses of packaging for approvals
• .Meets with customers and sales representatives to assist with contracts and production support requirements
• .Designs and develop efficient and effective packaging solutions for products
• .Analyzes engineering designs and specifications to establish physical requirements
• .Evaluates quality assurance, logistics, safety and materials alternatives
• .Determine container costs, movement costs and feasibility limitations
• .Creates engineering drawings, samples and written standards for packaging
• .May lead project teams of significant scope including other engineering colleagues
• .May coordinate vendor and/or associate work assignments on packaging projects
• .May lead cross-functional work teams
• .Interfaces on a frequent basis with packaging, operations, internal and external customers

.This salary-exempt role is a part of our Corporate Packaging team and reports to the Packaging Manager

.Required experience

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  Bachelor’s Degree in Manufacturing, Engineering, Packaging or equivalent experience
• .Minimum of six (6) years of experience
• .Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical audiences
• .Ability to lead presentations to leadership as required
• .Knowledge of logistics, transportation alternatives and customer expectations
• .Knowledge of manufacturing processes, product designs, safety, quality and workflow
• .Excellent organizational, analytical and communication skills
• .Proficient in Microsoft Office software