Principal Packaging Engineer

About Ingredion

Join Ingredion, where innovation impacts lives worldwide! Without even realizing it, you’ve experienced our work in your favorite chocolate, your pet’s food, the paper you write on, and your everyday snacks. As a global powerhouse across more than 60 industries, we harness the potential of natural ingredients to transform lives. Whether you’re just starting your career or bringing years of experience, there's a place for you here to make a real difference.

Be part of our team that values a wide range of perspectives and is committed to shaping a better world with every product we create.

Location:

Bedford Park, IL plant, or Indianapolis, IN plant or North Kansas City, MO plant

Workplace type:
Onsite

Provide a broad range of engineering expertise and technical support to all Ingredion locations in support of their safety, quality, manufacturing, and business goals. This includes mechanical design of solids handling, product packaging (dry powder) equipment and systems, process and equipment troubleshooting and optimization, packaging material design and optimization, development and review of potential projects and support during major project implementation.

Provide a high level of technical leadership through mentoring, leading task forces and teams and answering technical requests. Provide coordination to ensure that Ingredion has, or has access to, the best technology in its business units worldwide.

Partner with customers, both internal and external, to deliver packaging solutions that enhance customer experience both in the packaging materials used and the packaging equipment. Primary focus on packaging of bulk powders. Support a team environment that delivers innovative process improvements and provides process troubleshooting to resolve complex business issues. Maintain a high level of awareness of current and emerging technologies in dry powder packaging regarding materials, equipment, engineering, design, regulatory requirements and make recommendations on their application to improve profitability of operations worldwide.

Being up to date on leading edge packaging technologies for bulk powders and liquids will contribute to this role being Ingredion’s subject matter expert on packaging. Develop innovative ideas, concepts or techniques that may be useful to our business and operations. Develop technical specifications and best practices for bulk packaging equipment and materials and share with the plants in the Ingredion network.

Provide technical consulting assistance to Ingredion and outside engineering personnel in engineering, design, equipment specifications, project reviews, installation, checkout, start-up, testing, troubleshooting and optimization to support project and plant objectives. Review and recommend appropriate equipment and systems for new capital projects and existing installations to ensure that they comply with known safety best practices, applicable codes, and standards. Provide the technical support required for the negotiations of national and international contracts for selected supplies and equipment, capital purchases, engineering services, and construction services that will ensure cost effectiveness to all locations served by the contracts.

Provide technical support and leadership to cross functional teams with members involving operations management, maintenance, engineering, quality, supply chain, and procurement to achieve manufacturing excellence.

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with significant experience in industrial packaging engineering. Mechanical Engineering is preferred, but Chemical, Industrial, Packaging, and Electrical Engineering are also considered. Experience with packaging equipment (robots, metal detection, force flow packers, screeners, magnets, etc.) of bulk powders (primary focus) and liquids (minor focus). Demonstrated knowledge of sizing, design, fabrication, troubleshooting, failure analysis, GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices), production measurements and safety requirements of packaging equipment.

Demonstrated knowledge of optimizing packaging materials to prevent damage while…