Job Information
ProAmpac Holdings, Inc. Product Development Engineer in Westfield, Massachusetts
Job Description
ProAmpac is a leading global flexible packaging company with comprehensive product offerings. Providing creative packaging solutions, industry-leading customer service and award-winning innovation to a diverse global marketplace. We are guided in our work by our core values that are the basis for our success: Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, Impact and Involvement.
The Product Development Engineer will be responsible for creating, developing, designing, testing, products, processes, for new and existing products/markets while ensuring quality, cost, and on time delivery of new/improved products to the market.
Research, design, develop, test, control, analyze, create specifications, document, implement, products and structures for new or improved products; monitoring from pilot to scale up
Conduct lab & pilot scale research that supports product and process innovation and improvement, and scaling that research to commercial processes
Collaborate with global and national brands, cross-functional teams, and material & process suppliers to develop specifications, evaluate, and control properties of substrates, materials and processes
Handle complex issues, provides technical support and knowledge to solve issues and assists with projects;
Utilize project management skills to effectively drive product development and innovation projects including project summary updates, innovation gating process documentation, project planning grant charts, preparing pertinent IP collateral, ensuring freedom-to-use documentation
Support marketing requests for product performance and technical information;
Support and/or lead customer innovation sessions aimed at developing new product concepts
Write product evaluation protocols, perform product testing, and author engineering reports with recommendations
Keep abreast of and identify new developments and technologies in materials and processes
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Requirements
Bachelor's Degree required, preferably chemical engineering, paper/pulp, packaging
2 - 4 years' work experience; flexible packaging preferred
Previous technical service, process control, quality engineering, or product development and leadership preferred
Knowledge of continuous improvement methodologies required such as Six Sigma, Lean, etc. preferred
Experience with FDA requirements and ISO standards
Experience using Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point, Teams), and Outlook
Exceptional time management and organization skills
Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively (verbal, written, and presentations) with executive leadership, staff, and internal and external clients
Proactive; exercises sound judgment and decision making; able to identify problems and needs and develop solutions and/or options
Self-confident, self-motivated polished professional who thrives in a challenging, fast-paced environment
Area of Interest: Engineering
Department: Product Development-2550
ProAmpac is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Minorities/Women/Protected Veterans/Disabled.