What are the responsibilities and job description for the Process Engineering Manager position at Sealed Air?
Sealed Air designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient. We strive to foster a caring, high-performance growth culture that will deliver consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerate our performance – a culture where accountability is clear and aligned, and where we reward business outcomes and impact. That culture guides everything we do, including how we partner with our customers and suppliers, how we attract and retain top talent, and how we create and deliver value to our stakeholders. In 2025, Sealed Air generated $5.4 billion in sales and has approximately 16,100 employees who serve customers in 119 countries/territories. To learn more, visit www.sealedair.com.
Job Description
Schedule: Monday - Friday 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Pay range: $81,900.00 - $122,900.00
The range disclosed complies with applicable state and local pay transparency laws. Offers within this range will be determined by considering relevant factors including education, experience, and internal alignment.
Position Overview
The Process Engineer’s primary focus is supporting the Upper’s operational performance metrics for both Plastic Injection Molding and Assembly departments. This is done by driving the manufacturing process and tooling molding process optimization with scientific methods to deliver world class quality and productivity in a high volume, fast paced environment. Secondarily, work with LB’s New Product Development (NPD) team’s injection molding efforts to develop new molding tools and molding processes.
Reasonable Accommodations Statement
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Essential Functions & Responsibilities
- Establish new and improve existing product molding processes, procedures, and verify quality data to recommend any adjustments required to meet customer specifications and operational performance metrics.
- Apply and direct technical resources to solve complex engineering molding and assembly problems using the appropriate engineering tools and scientific principles. Eg – Six Sigma tools.
- Work closely with Group Performance Leader (Operations) to ensure complete alignment of technical support with production schedule & priorities.
- Provide tooling recommendations.
- Generate and maintain molding, tooling, and assembly related process documentation.
- Research and evaluate continual improvement suggestions in areas of molding, assembly, raw materials, and support equipment.
- Collaborate with NPD Engineers early in the design process with a focus on Design for Manufacturing and implementation of Lean Manufacturing principles.
- Support the generation and maintenance of part number, bills of materials, and preventative maintenance schedules.
- Participate in customer piece part and assembly design efforts, suggesting improvements for manufacturability.
- Coordinate internal and external operational process related activities, guiding resources to obtain project objectives.
- Specify and provide justification for molding equipment, tooling improvements, assembly, and support equipment.
- Research product discrepancy cause and corrective action for all received product rejects, supply quality with appropriate data to submit to customer.
- Other responsibilities and projects as assigned.
Competency Statements
- Act: Safely, Responsibly and Ethically.
- Develop: Positive, Collaborative Teams and Healthy Work Environments.
- Deliver: Timely, Innovative and Sustainable Focused Solutions.
- Drive: Quality in Products, Service, and Attainment of Professional Goals.
- Integrate: Core Values of Commitment, Responsibility, and Innovation into all aspects of work.
- Business Acumen- Communication.
- Judgment- Critical Thinking – Decision Making- Planning and Strategy.
- Leadership-Coaching and Development - Ability to coach and lead others.
- Change Management- Accountability.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s in an engineering-related field preferred: Polymer Science, Chemical, Manufacturing, Mechanical, or Industrial Engineering.
- Two-year degree and equivalent work experience accepted.
- 7 years of experience as a Process Engineer in plastic injection molding, proven knowledge of Scientific Injection Molding, RJG Master Molder or equivalent.
- Strong data analytics, hands-on processing experience with plastic injection molding machines, ability to provide mentorship, ability to communicate professionally both internally and externally.
- Hands-on operational processing experience with Injection Molding Machines and all related ancillary equipment, melt indexing, hygrometer, pyrometer.
- Microsoft Suite, Minitab, MS Project, ability to operate a PLC.
- Automation experience is required.
- Leadership experience is required.
Work Environment
Manufacturing Plant. Climate-controlled.
Requisition id: 55791
Relocation: No
Sealed Air is committed to attracting, selecting, and developing talent that reflects the diversity of the communities and customers we serve. We take pride in our selection process to identify, infuse, and grow talent to align with our culture, values, and norms. Sealed Air prioritizes talent development, fostering a culture of continuous growth and career progression. The company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and to all employees, without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, protected disability, veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
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Benefits:
Health Insurance, 401K Plan, Vacation & Paid Time OffSalary : $81,900 - $122,900