Packaging Engineer

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Packaging Engineer
Location: Ogden, UT
Status Direct Hire
Experience: Bachelor's Degree in Packaging, Mechanical, or Industrial and at least 3 years of experience
 
Summary
In this role you will be responsible for leading and coordinating design and optimization for all regional and external packaging design activities for automotive components, automation cells, and service/aftermarket parts.
This role ensures technical integrity, cost efficiency, and alignment with internal and customer standards while coordinating with external design resources.
Ensure efficient handoff, design consolidation, and quality resolution across all packaging projects.
 
Responsibilities:

• Develop, Design, and Test packaging (all iterations of expendable & returnable) including distribution testing.
• Validate and certify all packaging, where applicable, to DOT & HazMat requirements entering, moving within, and exiting the Americas.
• Drive efficiencies through standardization of packaging materials, processes, and utilization. Own the supplier packaging dBase (LIS) – data cleansing and content management.
• Own the customer packaging responses as part of the PPAP process and content management through the various customer packaging portals.
• Engineer packaging (racks, totes, dunnage, corrugate) for protection, pack density, ergonomics, and logistics cost; create drawings/specs and maintain revision control.
• Create innovative and robust packaging solutions for new and existing automotive components using 3D CAD software such as SolidWorks or CATIA.
• Own CAD design of steel racks/totes and custom dunnage (foam, plastic, textiles); calculate containerization and lineside presentation.
• Coordinate with internal teams (engineering, manufacturing, sales, finance, etc.) and our packaging vendors for new and existing projects to find opportunities to reduce cost and improve performance, efficiencies, and safety.
• Run sample builds, line trials, and transport/durability tests; document results and release specs.
• Qualify packaging materials and formats; author standard work instructions; lead trials and validation for new/changed SKUs.
• Understand and execute safety, quality, and regulatory compliance in the packaging area.
• Execute inbound/outbound service packaging standards; evaluate expendable vs. returnable per lane and volume.
• Review/approve supplier proposals; maintain spec database and PFEP for service/parts
• Analyze damage data and lead corrective actions and redesigns.
• Coordinate with Service Ops, Warehousing, and Supplier Quality on readiness and change control.
• Create consumerfacing packaging (branding, instructions, fixtures) without compromising protection.
• Design cellfriendly packaging: datum/orientation features, leadins/chamfers, pockets, pokayoke geometries for high firstpass pick rates.
• Collaborate with controls/robotics: EOAT/gripper interfaces (grip surfaces, vacuum suitability, compressibility, clearances) and standard pick windows.
• Participate with purchasing in packaging vendor qualification, selection, on-boarding, and score carding.
• Own the operations focused vendor relationship.
• Reduce overall costs through collaboration with suppliers, manufacturing sites, cross docks, and customer locations on returnable container fleet quantities, standard container sizes, materials, dunnage design, labeling, damage assessment, and life-cycle management (returnable reuse program).

• BS in Packaging Engineering strongly preferred; Mechanical/Industrial acceptable,
• 3-5 years of related experience,

• CAD & Packaging: SolidWorks/NX/CATIA; ArtiosCAD for corrugated/dunnage; read drawings, GD&T, basic tolerance stacks.
• Palletization/Cartonization: TOPS/Cape Pack (or WMS-native).
• Materials: Corrugate/corrplast, HDPE/PP thermoforms, foams (EPE/XLPE/PU), textiles, steel/aluminum racks; ESD/cleanliness & wash/repair considerations.
• Testing & Standards: ISTA 1A/2A/3A/6A, ASTM D4169; load-securement best practices; small-parcel vs LTL/ocean constraints.
• Automation-readiness (nice to have): datum/orientation features for robot/vision pick, EOAT/grip surfaces, label windows/fiducials.
• Methods: DFMEA/PFMEA, DOE, line trials, buyoff checklists; evidence-based iteration.