Packaging Engineer

Job Title

Packaging Engineer

Job Description

You are responsible for

• Manage packaging execution projects with internal marketing, Philips design, purchasing, quality and external suppliers
• Ensure packaging requirements are clearly defined and understood by external suppliers
• Prioritize packaging structure projects for new products and improvement projects for existing products
• Balance workload to ensure timely launches within cross-functional team framework
• Work with marketing and Philips Design to develop initial packaging concepts appropriate for each project
• Work with external supplies to ensure packaging concepts optimized for manufacturing and cost constraints
• Create design briefs for external design suppliers
• Oversee packaging design process, ensuring designs meet Philips standards for customer attractiveness, structural quality and sustainability
• Create specifications for product shipper box and palletization
• Coordinate packaging quality testing per international shipping standards
• Create package design drawings and specifications
• Define and select material specification to meet cost constraints and sustainability guidelines
• Determines logistics parameters for new packaging structures (e.g. weights, dims, material content)

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field, packaging, science, or design engineering
• 3+ years of design and/or manufacturing of paperboard and corrugate structures, thermoformed blister cards and clamshells, polybags
• Working knowledge of: Esko ArtiosCAD, CAPE Pack, Adobe Illustrator, Solidworks or Simens NX.
• Knowledge of ISTA protocols
• Project management skills, including planning and organization skills
• Proficient with Microsoft Office suite
• Communication and presentation skills: documents data / decisions in a detailed and structured way, tailors ways to best present information to audience and presents complex technical data in a concise way
• Strong interpersonal skills to work with people globally and all levels of the organization
• Fluent in Mandarin with good English (both writing and verbal) ability
• Logical thinking and demonstrated competencies on handling multiple tasks.
• The desire to work on projects that change people’s lives.
• Critical eye to detail.
• Curious and inventive attitude.

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If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care here.