Sr. Packaging Designer

Sr. Packaging Designer
Smyrna, GA

Welcome to MeadWestvaco! Our company creates exciting new products that serve our customers around the world. What's our most valuable competitive advantage? It's the superior talent and commitment of a workforce with ideas - the kind of ideas that spark our imagination and improve our customers' businesses with state-of-the-art products and services.

MeadWestvaco is a global packaging company that delivers high-value packaging and packaging solutions to the world's most recognized companies in the food and beverage, media and entertainment, personal care, cosmetic and healthcare industries. We also have market-leading positions in our Consumer & Office Products, Specialty Chemicals and Specialty Papers businesses. MeadWestvaco also manages strategically located forestlands according to stringent environmental standards. We do this, and so much more, with a commitment to excellence wherever we do business.

MeadWestvaco Consumer Solutions Group, is a leading global supplier of high-performance multiple packaging systems and cartons for beverage, dairy, and processed food. An industry innovator in carton design and packaging systems, the company operates two design and engineering centers and 12 converting facilities, located strategically near its major markets in The Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe.


MeadWestvaco Consumer Solutions Group is currently seeking a Senior Packaging Engineer in the Smyrna, Georgia area.


Summary:

To understand and meet the MeadWestvaco Consumer Solution Group customer packaging , using innovative, economical and timely packaging design solutions. The ability to anticipate and understand these packaging needs are critical to helping maintain the MeadWestvaco leadership role in the global packaging theater. In order to accomplish this, Senior Package Designers must coordinate and correspond with various internal (such as manufacturing, engineering, sales, marketing, support managers, etc.) and external representatives.


Specific Job Duties:

o Develop new package designs for specific customer needs.

o Adapt/modify existing package designs for specific customers.

o Evaluate secondary packaging machinery and distribution environments, working closely with MeadWestvaco engineering team.

o Work closely with converting machinery and manufacturing to maintain most economical packaging for MeadWestvaco's customers.

o Function as industry expert to assist sales, marketing, legal.

o Manage/maintain files, experimental orders, invention records.

o Create new innovative package designs to maintain MeadWestvaco Proprietary Market Advantage.

o Package improvements/modifications that provide cost savings, manufacturing efficiency, improve functionality, etc.

o Maintain knowledge base of secondary packaging machinery limitations and capabilities.

o Maintain knowledge base of MeadWestvaco and Sub Contractor converting limitations and capabilities.

o Research and maintain knowledge base of packaging industry (including competitors' capabilities, customer's line requirements, distribution environments, etc.)

o Maintain files for Package Development Specifications, experimental orders, production dies.

o Provide customer satisfaction through timely, accurate, professional interaction.

o Participate in team brainstorming activities for innovative packaging ideas.


Job Requirements:

o Four year degree in Packaging Engineering or 5 -10 years experience in Package Design with emphasis on machine systems business

o Good knowledge of secondary packaging machine systems and converting machine processes

o Ability to perceive spatial relations

o Reading, writing mathematical skills

o Communication/presentation skills (ability to act as a professional representative of MeadWestvaco)

o CAD/CAM literacy/proficiency

o Good problem solving and decision making skills

REQUIREMENTS


Job Requirements:



o Four year degree in Packaging Engineering or 5 -10 years experience in Package Design with emphasis on machine systems business

o Good knowledge of secondary packaging machine systems and converting machine processes

o Ability to perceive spatial relations

o Reading, writing mathematical skills

o Communication/presentation skills (ability to act as a professional representative of MeadWestvaco)

o CAD/CAM literacy/proficiency

o Good problem solving and decision making skills