Senior Thermal Packaging Engineer

Senior Thermal Packaging Engineer

Location: On site, Wilmington, DE and Greater Baltimore Area

Our client is building the next generation of temperature sensitive packaging solutions for high value products that cannot afford performance gaps in transit. This is a high impact engineering role for someone who wants to shape new packaging platforms, influence product development direction, and help strengthen an innovation focused organization during a period of meaningful growth. The team is looking for a hands-on leader who can bring strong thermal packaging expertise, practical validation knowledge, and the ability to move ideas from concept into scalable real-world solutions.

This Role Offers

• Competitive compensation and a strong benefits package
• High visibility with cross functional leaders and product development stakeholders
• The opportunity to influence packaging innovation, testing strategy, and process improvement
• Exposure to a specialized and highly marketable cold chain packaging niche
• Career growth potential within an expanding organization focused on engineered packaging solutions

Focus

• Guide development of temperature sensitive packaging platforms from concept through pilot and commercialization
• Translate customer and operational needs into insulated shipper designs, component selections, and test plans
• Lead lab and field validation activities, including distribution studies, thermal performance assessments, and failure analysis
• Partner with manufacturing, sourcing, quality, and commercial teams to improve cost, packout consistency, and scalability
• Mentor engineers and technicians, establish project priorities, and elevate design and documentation discipline
• Use data from prototypes, transit trials, and validation work to refine materials, configurations, and performance margins
• Support customer facing technical conversations tied to packaging performance, risk reduction, and implementation readiness
• Track market and regulatory trends influencing life sciences and other temperature sensitive shipping applications

Skill Set

• 6 plus years of progressive packaging engineering experience in a product development or innovation environment
• Strong background in thermal packaging, cold chain packaging, or other temperature controlled shipping applications
• Experience with packaging validation, testing protocols, and ISTA related distribution performance work
• Demonstrated leadership experience, either through direct people leadership or technical project leadership
• Demonstrated success collaborating with product development, manufacturing, compliance, and business development groups to launch innovative offerings into the marketplace
• Bachelor degree in Packaging Engineering or a related engineering discipline preferred
• Strong communication skills, sound engineering judgment, and a practical problem-solving mindset
• Ability to travel occasionally for plant collaboration, validation work, or customer related activity

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