Processing & Packaging Engineering Manager

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Processing & Packaging Engineer
Location: Vernon, CA on-site Monday through Friday.
Status: Full-time direct hire
Compensation: $85,000 to $110,000 DOE
Experience level: 5 years of experience in food packaging and design. BS in Engineering
*Unable to provide sponsorship of any kind now or in the future (F1-OPT) or work with third party firms (C2C)

SUMMARY:
Responsible for overseeing the design, development, and implementation of packaging solutions for Brand and B2B commercialization projects. This role involves close collaboration with R&D, production, and finance teams to ensure packaging components meet cost and quality requirements while supporting production needs. The 
manager will also be responsible for troubleshooting packaging issues, managing engineering projects, and coordinating plant trials for new SKUs. Additional duties include creating production flows, ensuring compatibility between packaging equipment and formats, conducting meetings, and assisting with packaging-related customer requests. This role plays a critical part in improving packaging efficiency and quality across various production lines, including identifying cost-effective alternatives and implementing continuous improvements.
 
Responsibilities

• Design shipper cases, pallet pattern, cartons and trays for all Brand, B2B 
• commercialization projects
• Work with R&D and operation on process design of new product. 
• Ensure packaging equipment (sealer, cartoner, case packer, etc.) is compatible with new packaging formats
• Work with the engineering team to get the appropriate change parts, new machine for new packaging formats. 
• Able to estimate investment if need for new process line or packaging 
• Support R&D and finance with packaging portion of costing recipes in a timely manner
• Assist packaging related problems with production and QA
• Able to work directly connect with outside B2B customers in part of packaging and process design 
• Working with R&D for planning and conducting trial run to ensure process flow and machine set up point met product quality requirement 
• Monitoring first production period to ensure operation performance, speed, yield loss follow target costing. Find improvement point if needed. 
• Manage special engineering projects such as new line set up. 
• Support Packaging equipment in production line 
• Lead continuous improvement in working teams such as loss reduction in meal line and yield improvement in chicken processing 
• Cost improvement on packaging alternatives and improve packaging quality 

Required Qualifications:

• BS in Engineering
• 5+ years of experience in food manufacturing and packaging design
• Proficiency with AutoCAD for processing, line layout design
• Strong problem-solving and continuous improvement skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with customers, operations management, industrial staff, and vendors.
• Ability to learn, understand and apply new technologies
• Understand manufacturing cost and variance related to process efficiency 
• Strong project management skills