Senior Packaging Engineer

Position: Senior Packaging Engineering Leader

Location: Bolingbrook, IL 60440 onsite daily

I am looking for a Sr Packaging engineer to build the Packaging Function. Drive Innovation and Influence Product Launches. in this role you will be leading and building the packaging engineering function supporting innovative beauty and consumer products.

This is not a maintenance-type packaging role.

The ideal candidate is someone who can own packaging strategy, commercialization, supplier partnerships, packaging innovation, sustainability initiatives, and manufacturing support — while helping establish best practices and scalable packaging engineering processes across the organization.

If you’ve worked in cosmetics, beauty, skincare, personal care, or highly aesthetic CPG products and enjoy taking ownership, influencing decisions, and building structure within a growing environment, this is the type of opportunity where you can make a major impact.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead the development and commercialization of primary and secondary packaging for cosmetic and personal care products
• Drive packaging innovation initiatives involving bottles, pumps, jars, tubes, closures, labels, cartons, and sustainable materials
• Partner closely with Product Development, Marketing, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, and external packaging suppliers
• Build packaging engineering processes, standards, specifications, and documentation systems
• Evaluate packaging feasibility, manufacturability, line compatibility, and supplier capabilities
• Support packaging testing including compatibility, transportation, leakage, compression, stability, and line trials
• Lead packaging issue resolution tied to filling lines, manufacturing, and distribution
• Drive sustainability, cost-reduction, and packaging optimization initiatives
• Support supplier qualification and development, including overseas suppliers and packaging manufacturers
• Influence packaging strategy from concept through production launch

QUALIFICATIONS

• 7–15 years of packaging engineering or packaging development experience
• Background within cosmetics, beauty, skincare, personal care, or consumer packaged goods (CPG)
• Strong experience supporting packaging commercialization and manufacturing environments
• Knowledge of packaging materials including plastics, glass, aluminum, labels, paperboard, pumps, and closures
• Experience working with packaging suppliers and contract manufacturers
• Familiarity with packaging testing standards and manufacturing line support
• CAD experience (SolidWorks, ArtiosCAD, or similar)
• Strong leadership, communication, and project ownership capabilities

Overview: Sterling Engineering / Staffing has a rich history of delivering top talent to our clients. We are a nationwide Staffing Firm that has been in business for over 57 years. With over 200 current active clients, with 500 positions in play, Sterling works within the Automation, Energy, Facilities, Information Technology, Food, Logistics / Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Packaging, Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals, Engineering and R&D industries.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.