Cryopak Industries Inc. is seeking a hands-on Packaging Engineering Director to lead the design, development, validation, and continuous improvement of temperature-controlled packaging solutions for pharmaceutical, life sciences, biotechnology, healthcare, food, and specialty product customers.
This is a leadership role for an engineering professional with strong technical depth in cold chain packaging, thermal validation, product development, and manufacturing support. The ideal candidate is comfortable leading a team while remaining close to technical execution, customer requirements, laboratory testing, and commercialization activities.
What You Will Do- Lead and mentor the Packaging Engineering team.
- Oversee the development of temperature-controlled packaging systems, including insulated shippers, gel packs, phase change materials, vacuum-insulated panels, refrigerants, and cold chain monitoring solutions.
- Support the development and optimization of cold chain product families, including passive thermal shippers, reusable cooler systems, insulated pallet covers, and sustainable temperature-controlled packaging.
- Oversee thermal modeling, validation activities, laboratory testing, and customer-specific qualification projects.
- Develop customer-specific solutions in collaboration with Sales, Customer Service, Operations, and Quality teams.
- Drive innovation, continuous improvement, cost reduction, and commercialization of new packaging technologies.
What We Are Looking For- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Packaging Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
- 7-10+ years of engineering experience in manufacturing, packaging, cold chain, pharmaceutical, medical device, or a related industry.
- 3-5+ years of leadership experience managing engineering professionals.
- Strong knowledge of temperature-controlled packaging, thermal validation, product development, and laboratory testing.
- Experience with cold chain products such as insulated containers, VIP panels, gel packs, PCM refrigerants, dry ice-compatible systems, and temperature monitoring devices.
- Experience with CAD software, SolidWorks preferred.
- Bilingual French and English, written and spoken. (will lead and collaborate with teams across Canada and the United States, participate in daily meetings conducted in English, and communicate regularly with clients, suppliers, and business partners located around the world.)
This is an opportunity to join a specialized cold chain packaging organization and play a key role in developing solutions that support critical temperature-sensitive shipments across regulated industries. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, customers, and technical experts to bring innovative packaging solutions from concept to commercialization.
