Packaging Designer
Responsibilities
- Design and develop new and revised corrugated packaging and display solutions, including cost reduction and performance improvements.
- Create prototypes and samples using CAD software and sample cutting tables for testing and validation.
- Write, maintain, and transmit detailed specifications, drawings, and documentation.
- Collaborate with Sales to gather customer requirements, support projects, and travel to customer sites as needed for audits, testing, and relationship building.
- Coordinate with tooling suppliers and manage ordering, verification, and quoting of cutting dies, printing plates, labels, and preprint materials.
- Work closely with Graphics to integrate structural design with artwork, ensuring the final package is both visually appealing and structurally sound.
- Support Manufacturing by ensuring designs align with equipment capabilities, routing requirements, and production constraints.
- Learn and apply customer and retail guidelines as well as industry testing protocols (e.g., ISTA, Amazon, hazmat, club store standards).
- Manage individual project workloads using project management tools and meet internal and external deadlines.
- Assist with routine lab, graphics, tooling verification, and departmental support activities as needed.
- Maintain clean, safe, and organized work areas while following all safety rules and company policies.