Packaging Engineer
On-siteShenzhen Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Job Summary
Lead technical leadership for packaging across product development, launch, and maintenance, ensuring smooth design transfer to industrialization and robust end-to-end packaging design that meets quality, reliability, and safety standards. Drive design reviews with internal engineering teams and external OEM/ODM vendors, creating technical drawings and specifications while overseeing compliance with company policies, structural integrity, and sustainability goals. Manage packaging test execution, analyses, and performance verification, ensuring accurate documentation of design specifications and validation procedures. Utilize critical thinking to solve complex problems and optimize packaging concepts for manufacturability and cost. Requires a Bachelor's degree in Packaging or Mechanical Engineering, 3+ years of experience, and fluency in English with Mandarin or Cantonese. Includes 25-30% travel in South China.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Packaging Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Design Engineering or a related technical field
- Minimum 3 years of experience in packaging design and/or manufacturing, including paperboard, corrugated structures and structural packaging design
- Track-record of developing consumer-related product packaging from concept development to market launch with key involvement in the industrialization phase
- Working knowledge of tools such as Autodesk AutoCAD, Esko ArtiosCAD, CAPE Pack, Adobe Illustrator, SolidWorks, or PTC Creo
- Knowledge of ISTA testing protocols, international shipping / transportation standards and familiar with packaging materials like paper/carton, plastics, etc.
- Familiar with technical product documentation, particularly the data related to packaging dimensions, weights, logistical data and knowledge of data management to the PLM system
- Excellent communication skills at all levels (fluent in English) to communicate with our multi-national team
- Fluent in Mandarin and/or Cantonese
- Experience in working with Far-East OEM/ODM external vendors
- Strong analytical and geometric problem-solving ability and able to document decisions clearly and present complex technical information concisely
- Composure, conflict management, timely decision making, listening skills, self-motivation, and perseverance
- Must be able to thrive in a fast-paced, team oriented, new product development environment
- Creative, and abstract thinker with a good balance to application, result-driven, accurate and quality minded
- Ambition to create value for our customers
- Travel in South China region: ~25-30%
- Full-time presence in the company's facilities
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