Package Engineer

Job Summary

We are seeking a Package Engineer for a 1-year contract assignment in Stamford, CT, supporting packaging development within the consumer packaged goods manufacturing industry. This role is ideal for a packaging professional with experience in liquid filling, injection-molded packaging components, blow-molded packaging components, and technical qualification work.

The Package Engineer will serve as a technical lead on packaging projects, helping develop safe, functional, attractive, and efficient packaging solutions for consumer products. This opportunity offers exposure to cross-functional teams, supplier collaboration, plant trials, testing, quality standards, and continuous improvement initiatives in a professional manufacturing environment.

This role is well suited for someone who enjoys solving technical packaging challenges, managing project timelines, influencing stakeholders, and contributing to packaging innovation with minimal guidance.

Key Responsibilities

- Develop and design packaging solutions that support product safety, convenience, transport performance, consumer appeal, and production efficiency.
- Create packaging material standards, specifications, engineering drawings, and supplier requirements for new and existing packaging components.
- Plan and coordinate laboratory testing, plant trials, and technical evaluations to qualify new packaging materials, components, equipment, and processes.
- Evaluate packaging and transportation methods to ensure compliance with quality, safety, and performance standards.
- Provide technical support for package performance, continued supply, quality issue resolution, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Partner with cross-functional teams, suppliers, contract packaging sites, and labeling operations to execute projects on time and within budget.

Compensation and Benefits

- Salary range: $124,000 to $150,000 per year. ($75 Hr.)
- Contract/temporary assignment.
- Assignment length: 1 year.
- Schedule: 4 days per week, 32 hours per week.
- Location: Stamford, CT.

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Additional Skills

Required Qualifications and Skills

- Manage packaging development and qualification projects for consumer packaged goods products.
- Support liquid filling packaging programs and qualification of injection-molded and blow-molded packaging components.
- Develop packaging specifications, test plans, timelines, technical documentation, and supplier requirements.
- Lead technical problem-solving, project execution, and cross-functional communication for assigned packaging initiatives.

- 3 to 5 years of relevant packaging engineering experience.
- Experience with liquid filling for consumer packaged goods.
- Experience qualifying injection-molded and blow-molded packaging components.
- Strong technical knowledge of packaging materials, packaging systems, component design, and packaging applications.
- Ability to develop and review packaging test methods, performance standards, and material specifications.
- Experience coordinating lab testing, plant trials, supplier evaluations, and package qualification activities.
- Strong project management skills, including timeline planning, contingency planning, budget awareness, and proactive issue resolution.
- Ability to communicate technical information clearly in writing, verbally, and in presentations to senior stakeholders.
- Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively with engineering, quality, manufacturing, suppliers, marketing, and other cross-functional teams.
- High level of ownership, persistence, adaptability, and accountability in managing packaging programs.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience working with contract packaging and labeling sites.
- Experience supporting exterior package design, product identification, printing appearance, and production techniques.
- Experience recommending packaging material innovations, efficient packing procedures, and automation opportunities.
- Experience mentoring co-ops, entry-level engineers, or junior technical team members.

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