Senior Packaging Engineer
ADEPT GROUP
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Minnesota, Ohio, Tennessee • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
About the role
- Participate in weekly supplier calls across active launch waves, supporting packaging readiness and issue resolution.
- Validate supplier-provided packaging data, specifications, and cost models for accuracy and alignment with company standards.
- Manage and maintain should-costing activities, ensuring supplier cost inputs are rationalized against benchmarks.
- Provide guidance within the supplier-led design process, client sets pool-pack parameters (e.g., 5 totes, 3 bulk containers, pallets), while suppliers own the internal dunnage design (~80% of the time).
- The engineer will review, advise, or intervene when supplier solutions do not meet requirements or performance expectations.
- Support supplier design and fit-check activities; travel on-site when required to confirm packaging function and handling.
- Collaborate closely with plants and supplier teams on lineside presentation, handling improvements, and load density optimization.
- Identify and implement opportunities to enhance existing should-cost tools and engineering templates, improving accuracy and usability.
- Act as a liaison between logistics, packaging suppliers, and engineering teams to ensure returnable packaging solutions are technically sound, cost-effective, and compliant with RPP standards.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives within the RPP, including standardization of packaging specifications, development of best practices, and documentation of lessons learned.
- Respond to ad hoc packaging engineering requests, which may include data analysis, validation, or packaging concept feedback.
Requirements
- 5-10+ years' experience in returnable/reusable packaging systems
- Experience working in the Auto or Industrial industries preferred
- Ability to validate specifications and assess cost models
- Familiar with packaging development lifecycle (design to implementation)
- Excellent data analysis and technical communication skills
- Comfort working with non-packaging SMEs
Benefits
- flexible, creative culture
- commitment to building a sustainable future
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
packaging data validationshould-costing activitiespackaging specificationsdata analysispackaging development lifecyclecost model assessmentload density optimizationpackaging designpackaging function confirmation
Soft skills
technical communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingguidancecontinuous improvement