Packaging Engineer

MEC

  • Hazel Park, Michigan
  • 30+ days ago

    Highlights

    Collaborate with customers, suppliers, Operations, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Purchasing, Program Management, and Production Control from concept through launch and steady-state production. Support production and shipping troubleshooting, containment actions, root cause analysis, and corrective actions related to packaging damage, shortages, labeling, or material flow.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationHazel Park, Michigan
    Websitehttps://www.mecinc.com

    Description

    • Design, develop, and implement cost-effective expendable and returnable packaging solutions for raw materials, work-in-process, finished goods, and service parts.
    • Translate customer, product, quality, manufacturing, and transportation requirements into packaging specifications and logistics plans.
    • Create packaging concepts, layouts, specifications, bills of material, work instructions, and related technical documentation.
    • Perform packaging validation, load testing, transportation trials, and risk assessments to confirm product protection, ergonomics, safety, and regulatory compliance.
    • Develop and maintain packaging standards, pack quantities, labeling requirements, and a Plan for Every Part (PFEP).
    • Optimize material flow, storage locations, line-side presentation, dock activity, warehouse space, and internal transportation routes.
    • Analyze freight, packaging, handling, inventory, and labor costs; lead continuous improvement and cost-reduction initiatives.
    • Collaborate with customers, suppliers, Operations, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Purchasing, Program Management, and Production Control from concept through launch and steady-state production.
    • Support new product launches by defining packaging, transportation, inventory, and material-handling requirements.
    • Support production and shipping troubleshooting, containment actions, root cause analysis, and corrective actions related to packaging damage, shortages, labeling, or material flow.
    • Perform other duties as assigned.

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