Sealed Air - Charlotte, NC
posted 2 months ago
Sealed Air is seeking a driven individual to focus on developing new products for the packaging industry. This individual should have the ability to understand packaging materials, packaging systems, industry standard test methods, and our customers' operations. The qualified candidate will be responsible for using heightened curiosity to develop test plans, conduct fitness-for-use testing, communicate results, and make expert recommendations on a path forward to customers, their team, and key stakeholders. In addition to the development of new packaging solutions, this role is tasked with supporting our business by training, troubleshooting, and communicating the performance of our solutions to both internal stakeholders and our customers. This individual will also be responsible for engaging with equipment and materials teams, field support, sales, customer service, and supply chain to ensure new and existing products continue to meet the high standards of Sealed Air Corporation. The position requires leveraging chemical, mechanical, electrical, or similar engineering expertise to provide key recommendations to existing innovation projects, generate novel ideas for new development machine projects, and lead final validation for machine and material innovation projects based on customer pain points. The engineer will travel consistently to key customers to fully understand their pain points and develop efficient and effective strategies to mitigate those customer pain points. This role demands strong self-motivation and an independent work ethic, as well as the ability to evaluate new material and system designs through rigorous testing and an understanding of critical customer needs while working within a team environment to address real-world problems. Additionally, the engineer will propose and implement strategic ideas that drive the enhancement of current product lines or the development of new product lines to drive increased profit based on a detailed understanding of materials, equipment, and customer operations. Providing technical solutions to customers, external vendors, field representatives, and the broader Innovation & Development organization through on-site customer support and visits to other Sealed Air facilities is also a key responsibility. The role involves collecting and sharing feedback from internal and external customers to influence decisions that drive profitable change within new and existing product offerings, as well as developing, designing, and conducting test plans and field trials that validate the reliability of the equipment, materials, and their interactions to provide the most robust solution to our customers.