Packaging Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

The Wonderful Company—home to FIJI Water, POM Wonderful, JUSTIN Wine, Teleflora, Wonderful Pistachios, and Halos—is built on a culture of collaboration, innovation, and a commitment to improving the well-being of our employees and the communities we serve. Our centralized Global Sourcing organization plays a critical role in supporting that mission, and we’re looking for a Packaging Engineer to join our Technical Packaging team.

In this role, you’ll support the development, optimization, and commercialization of packaging across several of our iconic brands. You’ll lead projects from concept through launch, working closely with internal teams and external suppliers to bring new products to market, improve quality and performance, qualify new materials, and drive cost-savings and sustainability initiatives. This position reports to the Senior Packaging Manager and offers broad exposure across our diverse business units.

This position will be based at our West Los Angeles, CA office. We work a hybrid schedule with an in-office requirement Monday-Wednesday and the option to work remotely on Thursday and Friday.

Job Description

• Work closely with Business Units, packaging vendors, and Global Sourcing category managers to deliver packaging initiatives, including cost savings, quality improvements, innovation, and sustainability projects across material categories such as corrugated, paperboard, glass, rigid plastic, and plastic films.
• Develop strong working relationships throughout the company, both at the corporate office and operations facilities.
• Provide technical expertise to Business Units, assessing opportunities and risks and supplying information and analysis for costing, feasibility and new development discussions.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously and deliver relevant packaging technical information (mockups, dielines, pallet patterns, specs, manufacturing tolerances, etc.).
• Design, coordinate, execute and report out on packaging tests to ensure packaging meets required performance criteria (line trials, new item start-ups, distribution test, lab tests).
• Maintain and update packaging specifications within packaging specification database.
• Provide technical sign-offs on new artwork, ensuring dielines and requirements are accurate.
• Partner with Sourcing to identify and evaluate new suppliers during bids, providing packaging requirements and supporting new supplier qualifications, testing, and onboarding.

Qualifications

Pay Range : $85,000-$110,000 and may include a discretionary bonus. Final compensation will be dependent upon skills & experience.

Additional Information

24 / 7 online physician consultations

Headquartered in Los Angeles, The Wonderful Company is a privately held $6 billion company dedicated to harvesting health around the world through its iconic consumer brands. The company’s 10,000 employees worldwide are committed to bringing consumers everywhere the freshest, most wholesome pistachios, citrus and pomegranates; bottling the finest water and wines; and creating colorful bouquets that are sure to touch the heart. This commitment is reflected in the company’s market share : Wonderful Pistachios® is America’s No. 1 tree nut and America’s fastest-growing snack; Wonderful® Halos® is the No. 1 mandarin orange in America; POM Wonderful® is the No. 1 100% pomegranate brand in America; FIJI® Water is America’s No. 1 premium imported bottled water brand; JUSTIN® Wine has the No. 1 Cabernet Sauvignon in California; and Teleflora® is the world’s leading floral delivery service.

The Wonderful Company’s connection to consumers has health at its heart and giving back at its core. The company has a long-standing commitment to corporate social responsibility, including more than $1 billion invested in environmental sustainability; $65 million in charitable giving, education initiatives, and innovative health and wellness programs each year; and $143 million toward the construction of two charter school campuses in California’s Central Valley. To view the current Corporate Social Responsibility report, visit www.wonderful.com / csr.

To learn more about The Wonderful Company, its products and its core values, visit www.wonderful.com, or follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

The Wonderful Company is an Equality Opportunity Employer that provides opportunities for advancement. We are committed to creating a diverse workforce that embodies a deep culture of acceptance, equity, and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories.

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