Sealed Air Corporation

Product Technology Engineer

Sealed Air Corporation$80K — $95K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Materials, or Chemical Engineering
  • Experience with manufacturing processes like extrusion, printing, and web converting
  • Knowledge of statistical analysis tools
  • Strong project management skills across multiple sites
  • Experience in process engineering or product development
  • Familiarity with methodologies like DOE, Lean Six Sigma, or SPC
  • Excellent communication and negotiation skills
  • Ability to work independently in a matrix organization
  • Willingness to travel up to 20%

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement improved manufacturing methods for high-quality products
  • Lead qualification of alternative resins and raw materials for cost savings
  • Drive product line extensions and commercialize innovative products
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve quality issues
  • Lead cost reduction initiatives to improve operational profitability
  • Serve as technical lead for quality improvement projects using data-driven decision-making
  • Stay current on advancements in plastics extrusion technologies and share best practices
  • Manage cross-functional projects to achieve business objectives

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance available
Full Job Description
Job Summary:

What will you do as a Product Technology Engineer at Sealed Air?

As a Product Technology Engineer, you will play a key role in improving manufacturing processes and delivering innovative, high-quality products to our customers. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams-including R&D, Operations, Commercial, and Manufacturing-to develop new processes, optimize existing ones, qualify new raw materials, drive cost and quality improvements, and support the commercialization of new products. Your expertise will help enhance operational efficiency, profitability, and customer satisfaction while supporting extrusion, printing, and converting technologies.

This includes design and development of new processes, modifications of existing processes, raw material replacements efforts, product line extensions, cost improvement initiatives, and quality improvement projects.

Responsibilities:

Why do we need you?
  • Develop and implement improved manufacturing methods to deliver high-quality products to customers.
  • Lead the qualification of alternative resins and raw materials to support cost savings, supply continuity, and obsolescence management.
  • Drive product line extensions and partner with R&D to commercialize innovative products.
  • Collaborate with customers, R&D, Business Leaders, and Engineering teams to resolve quality issues and identify value-added product opportunities.
  • Lead cost reduction initiatives and identify opportunities to improve operational profitability.
  • Serve as the technical lead for quality improvement projects and manufacturing troubleshooting using data-driven decision-making.
  • Stay current on advancements in plastics extrusion and web converting technologies while sharing best practices across manufacturing sites.
  • Manage cross-functional projects involving multiple plants and manufacturing areas to achieve business objectives.

Qualifications:

What do you need to be successful?
  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, or Chemical Engineering.
  • Experience with manufacturing processes such as extrusion, printing, laminating, web converting, and pouch/bag manufacturing.
  • Knowledge of statistical analysis tools and techniques.
  • Project management skills across multiple manufacturing sites and business functions.
  • Experience in process engineering or product development.
  • Familiarity with Design of Experiments (DOE), Lean Six Sigma, SPC, or similar methodologies (preferred).
  • Strong written, verbal, presentation, and negotiation skills.
  • Ability to work independently in a matrix organization with a proactive, self-driven approach.
  • Willingness to travel up to 20%.

Requisition id: 56142

Relocation: Yes

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About Sealed Air Corporation

Sealed Air Corporation is a packaging company that creates a range of packaging solutions for food, medical, and industrial applications. The company operates in three segments: Food Care, Product Care, and Medical Applications. Sealed Air's products include packaging materials, equipment, and systems. The company was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. Sealed Air has operations in more than 50 countries and serves customers in a variety of industries, including food and beverage, healthcare, and e-commerce.
Learn more about Sealed Air Corporation
Size
16,500 employees
Market Cap
$7.1 billion
Industry
Net Income
$502.9 million
Founded
1960
5 Year Trend
+5.6%
Revenue
$4.9 billion
NASDAQ

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