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Packaging Engineer

Katalyst Healthcares & Life Sciences
Jonesboro, AR Full Time | Contractor
POSTED ON 10/25/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/21/2027
Job Description:
We are seeking an experienced Packaging Engineer to provide engineering support for primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging systems within the FMCG, cosmetics, personal care, or consumer goods industries.
Key Responsibilities:
  • Provide engineering support for primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging systems.
  • Evaluate packaging equipment performance and identify opportunities for productivity improvements.
  • Support packaging line modifications, new equipment installations, and capacity enhancements.
  • Develop and review equipment specifications, User Requirement Specifications (URS), and technical bid evaluations.
  • Coordinate packaging line layouts and equipment integration activities.
  • Support packaging material and packaging format changeovers.
  • Collaborate with OEMs and vendors during design, installation, and startup phases.
  • Review utility requirements, line balancing, and machine interfaces.
  • Support packaging validation, commissioning, and performance qualification.
  • Ensure compliance with safety, quality, ergonomic, and manufacturing standards.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, Packaging Engineering, or Industrial Engineering.
  • 7 10 years of packaging engineering experience in FMCG, cosmetics, personal care, or consumer goods industries.
  • Strong understanding of filling, capping, labelling, cartoning, case packing, and palletizing systems.
  • Experience with packaging machinery selection and integration.
  • Proficiency in AutoCAD and packaging line layout development.
  • Experience working with packaging equipment OEMs.
  • Knowledge of GMP and packaging quality requirements.
  • Strong project coordination and communication skills.
  • Ability to work onsite in the USA.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience supporting brownfield facility modifications.

Salary : $68,048 - $106,003

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