Packaging Engineer

Key areas of Responsibility

Project Management:

• Manage packaging execution projects with internal marketing, Philips Platform Team, purchasing, System Engineer/Quality and suppliers

  
  

• Prioritizes workload based on business needs. Balance workload to ensure timely launches within cross-functional team framework.

  
  

Packaging execution:

• Developed structural packaging concepts appropriate for each project based on Philips Platform and Marketing inputs.

  
  

• Ensure packaging concepts are optimized for manufacturing, assembly, quality and cost requirements.

  
  

• Oversee packaging design process, ensuring designs meet Philips requirements for customer attractiveness, structural quality and sustainability.

  
  

• Create specifications for packaging designs including pulp trays, folding cartons, corrugated boxes and pallet layouts.

  
  

• Coordinate packaging quality testing per international shipping standards.

  
  

• Determines logistics parameters for new packaging structures (e.g. weights, dims, material content)

  
  

• As needed, work with external suppliers to develop packaging structures that meet project requirements.

  
  

• Provide inputs to other functions for maintaining packaging sustainability and substance compliance

  
  

• Conduct and document packaging design reviews per project milestones.

  
  

Others:

• Coordinate prototype tool builds and product tests.

  
  

• Create documents, specifications, Bill of Materials (BoM) in the PDM system

  
  

• Coordinate prototype builds and test requests

  
  

• Provide support to cross functional team with PDM system responsibilities

  
  

Minimum required Education:
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science Engineering OR Vocational Education in Information Technology or equivalent.
Minimum required Experience:
No prior experience required with Bachelor's Degree OR minimum 4 years of experience with Vocational Education in areas such as System Architecture, System Design, Hardware Engineering or equivalent.
How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.
Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.
Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This role is office-based role.
 

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