Packaging Engineer

About the role

Established in 1991, Collabera has been a leader in IT staffing for over 22 years and is one of the largest diversity IT staffing firms in the industry. As a half a billion dollar IT company, with more than 9,000 professionals across 30+ offices, Collabera offers comprehensive, cost-effective IT staffing & IT Services. We provide services to Fortune 500 and mid-size companies to meet their talent needs with high quality IT resources through Staff Augmentation, Global Talent Management, Value Added Services through CLASS (Competency Leveraged Advanced Staffing & Solutions) Permanent Placement Services and Vendor Management Programs. Collabera recognizes true potential of human capital and provides people the right opportunities for growth and professional excellence. Subject Matter Expert and Lead Packaging Engineer for Decatur focused on outbound prime product shipping standardization. Some additional scope may be involved on inbound packaging from suppliers to POU.

Responsibilities

• Designs and develops packaging and containerization for material from the source of supply to the point of use, leveraging Global Transportation processes.
• Designs and develops returnable and expendable shipping containers for both delivery to the customer and inbounds to manufacturing and assembly facilities.
• Develops packaging solutions to protect finished painted components.
• Designs for transport efficiency.
• Performs containerization analysis.
• Validates new packaging and containers during pilot phase.
• Coordinates with assembly planning for line-side storage and ergonomic considerations.
• Resolves safety and/or quality issues caused by current packaging.
• Resolves issues reported by 3PL or carriers.
• Develops, communicates and maintains supplier packaging requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Packaging, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering.
• Minimum of 3 years of supply chain or packaging operations experience.
• 1 year of project management experience.
• 3 years of industrial packaging design experience.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent interpersonal, teamwork, organization and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Thorough knowledge of shipping guidelines, quality, and inventory warehousing standards.
• Prior automotive packaging engineering experience.
• Experience with Pro‑E, CAD, Solidworks or other similar 3D electronic drafting tools.
• Knowledge of 3D modeling (desired).

Skills

• Analytical thinking and problem solving.
• Interpersonal communication, teamwork, organization.
• Project management.
• Industrial packaging design.
• 3D modeling