Overview

At Eagle Foods we are builders. We are builders of brands, categories, and people. Eagle Foods enjoys a rich heritage with brands that have proven category leadership for more than 150 years. Eagle is a diversified food company producing and marketing sweetened condensed and evaporated milk, snacks and convenient meal solutions products. As a company, Eagle Foods is passionate about fostering an entrepreneurial spirit that boldly builds better people and better brands while focusing on the positive impact our company, our products and our people have on the world. Eagle Foods has a bold family of brands that consumers have come to rely on for decades, including Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk and Evaporated Milk, Magnolia® Sweetened Condensed Milk, PET® Milk, Popcorn Indiana, Cretors Popcorn, Helper and Suddenly Salad. Eagle Foods products are marketed and distributed across all U.S. retail channels, including grocery stores, club stores and mass-merchandisers, as well as foodservice and export, U.S. military, and private label business.

Responsibilities

Develop and commercialize innovative and cost optimized packaging solutions across a range of product/package forms and brands. Collaborate with high performing cross-functional teams to drive the growth of market leading brands by driving great packaging executions in point-of-sale displays, new product commercialization and the maintenance of core product lines. This is an exciting role for a packaging engineer and a key to success is strong technical knowledge of packaging materials, design, and manufacturing equipment combined with a passion for collaboration, accountability, and action

Essential Functions

• Ability to analyze information and convert related activities into a comprehensive work plan
• Ability to document work
• Ability to communicate and make recommendations to upper management
• Ability to independently organize and prioritize actions to meet project and company objectives
• Ability to multi-task and lead multiple projects
• Ability to independently guide work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities
• Ability to deal with confidential information

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Manage the packaging development process, including the creation/renovation of packaging designs, prototype development and specification and testing.
• Build strong internal and external relationships with key business partners to support new product launches and key initiatives.
• Lead the packaging portion of new or existing finished product specifications including accountability for the specification database.
• Coordinate with Product Development, Manufacturing and the Customer to specify, test and implement the optimum packaging design for new products.
• Provide technical support, including leading line trials, to operations and engineering through the development and commercialization of a new product, and as needed thereafter.
• Analyze engineering drawings and specifications of product to determine physical characteristics of item, special handling, environment and safety requirements and type of materials required for packaging.
• Troubleshoot new and existing packaging problems involving design, material and processes, providing timely creative and cost-effective solutions.
• Identify and support implement cost savings initiatives related to existing packaging materials, labor, efficiency, transportation and storage.
• Travel to sites and equipment suppliers as required.
• Assure appropriately controlled documentations such as experimental date, procedures, SOP’s, forms, and other necessary R&D support tools are provided for success throughout the operation
• Follows all Good Manufacturing Practices as stated within the policy
• Follows all Safety rules & procedures by working safely and ensuring safety of others
• Follows all food safety procedures
• Follows all environmental protocols as applicable
• Follows all sanitation procedures and work instructions
• Performs other miscellaneous duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree is required. (Packaging or Mechanical Engineering, or related field preferred)
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in packaging functions, preferably in the food industry
• Knowledge of food packaging principles, quality and food safety requirements, ingredient performance and interactions with equipment and new product scale up dynamics.
• Understanding of process improvement and quality improvement concepts
• Strong interpersonal and communication (oral and written) skills desired
• Ability to multi-task and possess sense of urgency to meet time-sensitive deadlines
• Problem solving and decision-making skills are necessary
• Must be able to work independently and in a team
• Possess demonstrated project management skills

Additional Information

Eagle Foods will provide reasonable accommodations to allow an employee to perform the essential functions of the job.