Amazon Principal Packaging Engineer Product Experience 

United States, Pennsylvania 

131485980

A qualified candidate will have a background in structural packaging development, functional and cosmetic standards, such as ISTA, and experience working with outsourced manufacturing in a variety of packaging technologies, including but not limited to flexo-printing, lithography, corrugated, paper pulp, thermoforming, and molding. The candidate will be someone who can articulate and drive considerations required to deliver the best overall design for the customer, distribution and manufacturing. They will manage complex package development, leverage supplier resources and successfully push process and material limits to deliver practical, impactful results. They will advance design, test and validate standards to meet changing logistical requirements, safely deliver product worldwide, and create great customer experiences.
Key job responsibilities- Being the expert on packaging qualification practices and standards- Developing and managing packaging materials and suppliers’ qualification processes
- Identifying opportunities to improve efficiencies in the packaging design and evaluation process- Working independently and dealing with ambiguous environment
A day in the life
In this role, you will troubleshoot and problem solve independently in an ambiguous environment. You will have high ownership of your work, as proven by a record of driving projects and strategic initiatives to their completion independently. At the same time, you will also need to collaborate with, and influence other packaging engineers, across Amazon Devices, to adopt DFA recommendations across common packaging designs. To achieve this, you will need to be motivated, agile, with strong time management and project management skills, and have experience working in a technical environment.

- Bachelor's degree in packaging engineering or related field
- 10+ years experience in packaging design engineering, manufacturing & test
- 5+ years in consumer retail and/or consumer electronic packaging industry possessing having direct responsibility to deliver product which includes mixtures of raw materials for retail packaged products and retail point-of-sale displays
- Experience running packaging software such as ArtiosCAD and TOPS
- Design experience with corrugated and paperboard packaging, molded pulp packaging, packaging adhesives, print decoration and treatments.
- Experience developing packaging fixtures for pack out operation
- Experience developing and creating test protocol and procedure
- Experience with prototyping and implementation
- Experience working onsite with local and international manufacturers and suppliers
- Experience in creating Engineering Bills of Materials (BOM) structure, ECO, and documentation