Senior Associate

Description:

Ready to launch your packaging engineering career and see your ideas come to life on store shelves? Join SC Johnson's North America Air Care R&D team, where you'll help develop innovative packaging solutions for trusted brands used by millions of consumers every day.

As a Senior Associate, Packaging Engineer, you'll play an active role in designing, developing, and qualifying new packaging materials, products, and line extensions. Working alongside experienced scientists, engineers, marketers, and manufacturing partners, you'll contribute technical expertise to projects from concept through commercialization while building your skills in package development, testing, and cross-functional collaboration.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a visible impact early in your career, working on meaningful projects that drive innovation, improve consumer experiences, and bring new products to market. This position reports to the Research & Development Manager, North America Air Care.

Key Responsibilities
 

• Lead the end-to-end packaging development of projects for the North America Region including primary, secondary, and ecommerce packaging.
• Create robust specifications for packaging components, finished goods, and pallet factors, along with accurate Bill of Materials (BOM) setup.
• Collaborate with project managers and cross functional teams to build project timeline, deliver key milestones, provide input on technical risks and mitigation plans, and participate in project meetings accordingly.
• Focus on growth, business continuity, sustainability projects, following the technical processes and procedures in place.
• Responsible for completing all technical deliverables properly and on time.
• Complete performance and compatibility testing in support of packaging component changes.
• Develop validation and line qualification plans, perform lab tests, and document results in technical reports.
• Provide technical expertise and critical thinking skills to evaluate and correct package-related issues to maintain production schedules and product quality.
   

Required Experience You’ll Bring
 

• Bachelor’s degree in packaging engineering, packaging science or other relevant engineering disciplines (e.g., Mechanical, Materials, etc.) AND 2+ years of product/packaging development experience, OR an advanced degree and 0 years of experience.
• Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship for full-time employment.