Sealed Air designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient. We strive to foster a caring, high-performance growth culture that will deliver consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerate our performance - a culture where accountability is clear and aligned, and where we reward business outcomes and impact. That culture guides everything we do, including how we partner with our customers and suppliers, how we attract and retain top talent, and how we create and deliver value to our stakeholders. In 2025, Sealed Air generated $5.4 billion in sales and has approximately 16,100 employees who serve customers in 119 countries/territories. To learn more, visit www.sealedair.com.
Position Summary
The Lead Quality Engineer - Technology & Transformation is responsible for defining, deploying, and continuously improving end-to-end quality engineering solutions across the manufacturing value stream-from incoming raw materials through production and final product performance at the customer.
This role ensures robust, scalable quality verification and process control methods are embedded directly within manufacturing operations, leveraging in-line inspection technologies, material science understanding, and process capability engineering to drive consistency, traceability, and compliance.
A key focus of the role is to establish connected visibility of product quality throughout its lifecycle, linking material characteristics, process conditions, and finished good performance into a cohesive view that enables proactive decision-making, defect prevention, and continuous improvement.
Operating within the Quality COE, this leader combines hands-on technical expertise with enterprise-level influence, partnering across Quality, Operations, and Engineering to standardize best practices, deploy next-generation quality technologies, and elevate overall manufacturing performance.
Key Responsibilities
Quality Engineering Leadership & Transformation
End-to-End Quality System Design (Process-Focused)
Design and implement integrated quality control methods spanning:
Incoming materials
Production and converting
Finishing, warehouse, and release
Ensure alignment between material properties, process conditions, and final product performance
Drive standardization of core quality practices across sites while enabling execution flexibility
In-Line Inspection & Process Control Technologies
Lead deployment of process-integrated quality technologies, examples of which are:
Automated gauging and thickness control
Vision systems for defect detection
Real-time inspection and feedback loops
Enable closed-loop process control and real-time quality visibility
Partner with engineering to embed quality within equipment design and operation
Incoming Material & Process Quality Assurance
Establish robust systems for:
Raw material validation (e.g., resin properties, contamination detection)
Material handling integrity, dosing accuracy, and traceability
Ensure strong linkage between incoming material consistency and downstream process capability
Advanced Problem Solving & Continuous Improvement
Capital & Technology Implementation (Engineering-Led)
Identify, justify, and deploy targeted investments in quality-related equipment and tooling, including:
Inspection and measurement technologies
Process control enhancements
Build business cases tied to process gaps, variability, and cost of poor quality
Ensure solutions are practical, sustainable, and fully adopted in operations
Cross-Functional Leadership & Capability Building
Partner with Operations, Engineering, and Plant Quality teams to scale solutions across sites
Develop organizational capability in:
In-line quality engineering
Process control and capability improvement
Establish and advance a connected view of product quality across its lifecycle, enabling traceability from raw material through manufacturing to finished product performance at the customer
Mentor teams to build ownership, standardization, and continuous improvement culture
Qualifications
Required
Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Chemical, Manufacturing, or related)
8-12+ years of experience in manufacturing quality and process engineering
Strong experience in:
Process capability and control
In-line inspection and measurement systems
Root cause analysis and structured problem solving
Hands-on experience in plastics, paper, or converting environments preferred
Preferred
Leadership & Competencies
Pay Transparency
Salary Range: $102,600-$176,755
The range disclosed complies with applicable state and local pay transparency laws. Offers within this range will be determined by considering relevant factors including education, experience, and internal alignment. This position may also be eligible for annual performance bonuses and other incentive programs. Sealed Air offers a competitive benefits package that includes health, dental, vision, 401(k), paid time off, and other benefits designed to promote well-being.
Requisition id: 55707
Relocation: No
Sealed Air is committed to attracting, selecting, and developing talent that reflects the diversity of the communities and customers we serve. We take pride in our selection process to identify, infuse, and grow talent to align with our culture, values, and norms. Sealed Air prioritizes talent development, fostering a culture of continuous growth and career progression. The company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and to all employees, without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, protected disability, veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
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