What are the responsibilities and job description for the Structural Packaging Designer position at Chase & Associates?
Chase and Associates is partnering with a leader in custom packaging solutions to find a Structural Packaging Designer. This role bridges commercial objectives and operational performance, ensuring structural designs and tooling are practical, cost-effective, and fully executable on the manufacturing floor.
What You’ll Do:
- Develop structural packaging concepts and production-ready designs for folding carton applications, ensuring manufacturability and cost efficiency.
- Own the tooling lifecycle—from specification and vendor coordination to validation and implementation on the production floor.
- Serve as a technical liaison between Commercial, Operations, Production, and external tooling partners, engaging with customers as needed to clarify design intent.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Estimating, Operations, Purchasing, and Quality to support accurate quoting, reliable sourcing, and successful production launches.
- Provide production support to resolve design- or tooling-related challenges, improve runability, and reduce waste.
- Ensure documentation and tooling oversight support traceability, operational continuity, and continuous improvement.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, enhance packaging performance, and drive cost control.
What You Need:
- MUST HAVE: Experience in structural packaging design within a folding carton manufacturing environment.
- Proficiency in ArtiosCAD is required.
- Working knowledge of packaging materials, tooling development, and manufacturing processes.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects in a production-driven environment with strong mechanical aptitude and practical problem-solving skills.
- Experience interacting with customers on design or functional requirements is a plus.
- Clear communication, cross-functional collaboration abilities, and a high level of accountability, organization, and follow-through.
- A production-oriented mindset—you understand that successful packaging design is defined by performance on the manufacturing floor as much as customer satisfaction.