Launch Packaging Engineer

Launch Packaging Engineer

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of Lean Materials Strategies.
• Proficient with the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint).
• Experience in packaging testing standards.
• Ability to travel as needed on a local scale.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects, effective project planning in terms of resources, strategies, cost, and time, with ability to meet project timelines.
• Relatively high level of analytical ability where problems are complex.
• Knowledge of basic manufacturing and assembly processes.
• Knowledge of supply chain processes.
• Knowledge of Workplace Safety Systems pertaining to Safe Handling, Stacking, Storage of containers.
• Demonstrated technical and professional skills in job-related area required.
• Proficient in Dangerous Goods/ Haz-Mat material requirements.
• Provide feedback to Material Launch Team on future program container designs.

Responsibilities

• Communicate all container design changes to Office/Floor/Production that will impact space/material handling/transportation decisions.
• Communicate all non-compliances found during MVB builds.
• Issue Supplier Practical Problem Solving (SPPS’s) as required for packaging non-conformances found in MVB’s.
• Design and development of new sequence and batch racks for future programs.
• Maintain tracking sheet for all sequence racks.
• Validate container design for all containers interfacing with line side material devices.
• Communicate container return flow plan to floor team and offsites.
• Develop plan for MVB and future program rack returns.
• Verify correct packaging information is loaded in MGO (Container, standard pack, dimensions, weight).
• Ensure all 1738 forms are completed and approved for all contracted parts.
• Ensure back up containers have gone through formal buy off for all commodities.
• Validate standard pack quantities for any parts not yet reviewed at MVB.
• Verify IO container plans.
• Confirm all container loop sizes validated by containerization for all transportation modes planned.
• Load all containers/routes into the container logistics information planning system (CLIPS).
• Maintain the log for all containers at risk (Sequenced & Specialized) for SORP readiness.
• Responsible for supplier shipping label compliance.
• Attend container buyoff meetings as the main plant representative responsible for accepting or declining proposed container designs.
• Manage buy-off processes with all affected parties within the plant for new and modified containers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with a major in engineering, packaging engineering or related field and/ or equivalent experience.
• 2 + years of packaging engineering experience.
• Packaging Engineer with Industrial Engineering experience or interest preferred.
• Knowledge of computer software as it pertains to engineering preferred.
• Previous Packaging Engineer assignment preferred.
• Dangerous Goods experience.
• GM plant material experience knowledge of work standards, ergonomic principle, material optimization, and facility layout strongly preferred.