{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"8276044335244e366b9b5279","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8276044335244e366b9b5279","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8276044335244e366b9b5279","title":"Packaging Engineer","description":"POSITION: Packaging Engineer\n\nLOCATION: Jupiter, FL\n\nSTATUS: Salary-exempt\n\nJOB SUMMARY\n\nThe Packaging & Preservation Engineer serves as the technical owner for packaging and preservation standards for high-value industrial gas turbine components. This role is responsible for developing, validating, documenting, and continuously improving packaging, crating, preservation, storage, lifting, and handling solutions from supplier shipment through receiving, internal movement, storage, and final customer shipment. The position partners across Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Logistics, Procurement, suppliers, and packaging vendors to protect product integrity while improving safety, standardization, sustainability, and total delivered cost.\n\nESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES\n\nThe essential functions of the job include, but are not limited to, the following:\n\nDesign and develop custom packaging, skids, crates, and preservation solutions for gas turbine components, including large, heavy, precision-machined, coated, and high-value parts.\nCreate detailed packaging specifications, 3D models, engineering drawings, packaging layouts, and handling instructions using CAD software.\nServe as the technical owner for company packaging and preservation standards, ensuring requirements are consistently applied across suppliers, internal operations, storage, and outbound shipments.\nCollaborate with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Procurement, Logistics, Warehouse Operations, EHS, suppliers, and packaging vendors to ensure packaging designs meet product, safety, quality, and regulatory requirements.\nDevelop preservation requirements based on component material, surface condition, storage duration, transportation mode, and expected environmental exposure.\nSpecify appropriate corrosion and moisture protection methods, including VCI materials, desiccants, barrier bags, protective coatings, humidity indicators, vapor barriers, and other preservation methods.\nDefine short-term and long-term storage requirements, preservation inspection criteria, and re-preservation intervals for sensitive components.\nDesign packaging with appropriate lifting, rigging, crane, forklift, center-of-gravity, load distribution, blocking, bracing, and tie-down considerations.\nEstablish clear lifting points, handling methods, orientation requirements, and safe unpacking/repacking instructions where required.\nEnsure packaging and skids are structurally suitable for component weight and anticipated static and dynamic transportation loads.\nEvaluate and validate packaging for mechanical integrity, shock, vibration, compression, environmental exposure, moisture resistance, and transportation conditions.\nPerform or coordinate packaging qualification and transportation simulation testing and establish documented acceptance criteria.\nEnsure packaging complies with applicable standards and requirements, including ASTM, ISTA, MIL-STD, ISPM 15, carrier requirements, cargo securement requirements, and international shipping regulations.\nDesign packaging suitable for domestic and international transportation by truck, air, ocean, and multimodal freight.\nAccount for containerization, ocean freight condensation, extended transit/storage, port handling, load securement, and environmental exposure when developing export packaging.\nDevelop and maintain supplier packaging and preservation standards and communicate requirements through specifications, purchase-order requirements, drawings, and supplier documentation.\nReview and approve supplier packaging plans for critical, high-value, oversized, or sensitive components prior to shipment.\nConduct supplier packaging reviews/audits and provide technical guidance and corrective actions when supplier packaging does not meet requirements.\nDrive packaging standardization and identify opportunities to reduce the number of unique crate, skid, cushioning, and preservation designs while maintaining product protection.\nDevelop packaging cost estimates and evaluate total cost, including packaging materials, labor, transportation cube, dimensional weight, storage, handling, and potential damage risk.\nIdentify opportunities for reusable and returnable packaging and improve recyclability and sustainability of packaging materials.\nOptimize package dimensions and container utilization to reduce freight and handling costs without increasing product risk.\nCreate and maintain packaging BOMs, specifications, drawings, work instructions, preservation instructions, handling guidelines, and related technical documentation.\nMaintain packaging requirements within applicable ERP, MRP, PLM, or document-control systems and ensure requirements are linked to applicable part numbers and revisions.\nManage packaging design changes through appropriate engineering and document change-control processes.\nLead or support root cause investigations for transit, storage, handling, corrosion, and packaging-related product damage.\nDetermine whether packaging, preservation, handling, supplier practices, or transportation conditions contributed to damage and develop corrective/preventive actions.\nSupport freight and supplier claims by providing technical packaging analysis, documentation, photographs, drawings, and failure assessments.\nMaintain packaging lessons learned and incorporate corrective actions into future packaging standards and designs.\nDevelop and track packaging performance metrics, including damage incidents, packaging cost, cost avoidance, supplier compliance, reusable packaging utilization, and corrective-action effectiveness.\nProvide technical training and guidance to suppliers, warehouse personnel, logistics teams, and other internal stakeholders on packaging, preservation, lifting, storage, and handling requirements.\nPerform other duties as assigned.\n\nMINIMUM REQUIREMENTS\n\nEducation & Training\n\nBachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Packaging Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Industrial Design, or a related technical field.\n\nSkills/Experience\n\n3+ years of experience designing packaging, preservation, crating, or transport solutions for heavy industrial, aerospace, energy, defense, or other high-value engineered products.\nDemonstrated experience with wood crates, skids, blocking and bracing, cushioning systems, corrosion protection, moisture control, and export packaging.\nProficiency with CAD tools used for mechanical design, packaging layouts, and engineering drawings.\nAbility to read and interpret engineering drawings, dimensions, tolerances, material specifications, and product handling requirements.\nWorking knowledge of packaging validation principles and transportation hazards including shock, vibration, compression, moisture, corrosion, and load movement.\nKnowledge of applicable packaging and transportation standards such as ASTM, ISTA, ISPM 15, and relevant MIL-STD requirements.\nUnderstanding of lifting, rigging, load securement, center-of-gravity, and safe material-handling principles for heavy components.\nStrong root cause analysis, technical problem-solving, and corrective-action skills.\nAbility to manage multiple projects and priorities while collaborating effectively across technical and operational functions.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to create clear engineering specifications, work instructions, and supplier requirements.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\n\nExperience with industrial gas turbine components, rotating equipment, aerospace components, or other large precision-machined parts.\nExperience developing packaging for components weighing 500+ lbs.; experience with multi-ton or oversized equipment strongly preferred.\nKnowledge of corrosion prevention and preservation methods for nickel-based alloys, stainless steels, carbon steels, coated surfaces, and precision-machined components.\nExperience with ASTM D4169, ASTM D3951, ISTA test procedures, MIL-STD-2073, or similar packaging standards.\nExperience with export packaging, ocean container loading, blocking/bracing, cargo securement, ISPM 15 compliance, and international transportation requirements.\nExperience conducting supplier packaging audits, packaging qualification reviews, or technical supplier development activities.\nFamiliarity with hazardous material packaging and transportation requirements where applicable.\nExperience with SAP or similar ERP/MRP systems for packaging BOMs, material masters, specifications, and revision control.\nExperience with reusable/returnable packaging programs and packaging sustainability initiatives.\nLean, Six Sigma, or structured problem-solving experience is a plus.\n\nKey Performance Areas\n\nReduction in packaging- and transit-related product damage.\nSupplier compliance with approved packaging and preservation standards.\nPackaging cost reduction and standardization.\nImproved freight cube/container utilization and total delivered cost.\nTimely completion of packaging designs, specifications, and qualification activities.\nReduction in corrosion, moisture, handling, and storage-related nonconformances.\nImplementation and utilization of reusable or sustainable packaging solutions where technically and commercially appropriate.\n\nEqual Opportunity Employer 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