Principal Packaging Development Engineer
Company: CPS, Inc.
Location: Appleton
Posted on: January 21, 2023
Job Description:
Drive and contribute to programs to provide solutions to
customers while driving profitable growth. Work may include areas
such as: research, applications development, materials enhancements
and / or cost-out initiatives.
Is an advanced level contributor providing input providing input to
and executing complex assignments and projects while regularly
providing mentoring and coaching direction to more junior
professionals. Operates as a key resource across multiple markets,
technologies and regions and contributions are applicable across
existing and new to market or new to company technologies. Works
autonomously, requiring "expert" level technical support from
others occasionally. Contributes to influencing decisions,
semi-regularly outside of core area. Technical / product support
across multiple products and / or processes - regularly includes
key customers and /or initiatives.
- Leverage understanding of customer needs, their perceptions of
their business in the market, and their values to rapidly drive
results and relationships. Be valued by the customer in having a
"seat at their table" in discussions with key developments
- Leverage market and business intelligence to identify trends,
emergent technologies in order to influence the business
- Partner on developing business cases for new market spaces or
technologies in alignment with direction of the company
- Leverage how existing assets are utilized in order to break
into new markets
- Lead programs in stage gate to support start-ups and
launches
- Ensures technical rigor within stage gate process.
Independently plan, execute and analyze production trials with
Design of Experiment, Lean, and statistical analysis
- Contribute to company Intellectual property and protect IP
through information management
- Leverage understanding of business processes across functions
to continuously improve performance
- Act as technical mentor within and across functions in order to
advance the company's technical acumen
- Contribute technical skills and aptitude for problem solving
toward regional and global challenges
- Ensure proper documentation of work and contribute to knowledge
beyond the organization, such as an external presentation
- Integrate and communicate complex information beyond core team
/ function
- Enhance the knowledge and skills of the organization
- Support a culture of continuous curiosity and learning with
business impact
- Scope and initiate vendor programs, including new raw material
research
- Use advanced knowledge of materials and processes to influence
design solutions across the organization
- Collaborate with areas such as Engineering, Operations and
Quality to resolve technical challenges, supporting sustained
solution ownership. This may include inputs on machine
installations and improvements and participating in new capital
project teams
- Define material science capabilities required in the future and
resources needed to execute projects in alignment
- If you'd like to hear more about this opportunity and others we
are currently working on, please contact Tory Mack at
tmack@cps4jobs.com.
JO: 756.22TM
Technical Qualifications
- Undergraduate degree required. (Chemical Engineering, Materials
Science, Polymer Science or other related area preferred.) PhD or a
Graduate degree is strongly preferred
- 15+ years of experience with demonstrated progressive success
in a technical capacity within a global manufacturing
environment
- Demonstrated ability to leverage design choices positively
impacting market position with a longer-term view considering
multiple perspectives
- Demonstration of implementing platform solutions in a
collaborative, structured way with appropriate tools and
methodologies
- Expertise in multiple technologies / processes leveraged to
deliver value to the organization and business relationships
- Experience with key / national account customer relationship
management - from a technical perspective as well as demonstrated
ability to scale-up with a customer's growth
- Demonstration of conceptual thinking to understand complex
issued, apply judgment and proceed an agenda proactively
- If you'd like to hear more about this opportunity and others we
are currently working on, please contact Tory Mack at
tmack@cps4jobs.com.
JO: 756.22TM
Keywords: CPS, Inc., Appleton , Principal Packaging Development Engineer, Engineering , Appleton, Wisconsin
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