Package Engineer
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Kaizen Firm seeks a Packaging Engineer for a client in Jeddah to design protective industrial packaging solutions for manufacturing parts. Requires 2-6 years of packaging engineering experience, proficiency in CAD and container loading software, and expertise in expendable packaging arrays.
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Responsibilities
- Analyze CAD blueprints of manufacturing parts to understand geometry, fragile points, and structural requirements
- Engineer expendable (one use) packaging arrays, including custom cartons, custom dunnage, corrugated shippers, and protective foam inserts
- Develop robust, protective packaging architectures tailored to safe guarding high value or complex industrial components
- Utilize specialized cube optimization and container loading software to maximize shipping space and container density
- Calculate and design arrays to increase pallet yields, reducing overall freight expenses and footprint
- Collaborate with logistics and supply chain teams to align packaging dimensions with standard freight configurations
- Ensure all engineered packaging designs provide maximum long haul transit protection across international supply chains
- Mitigate risk of part damage during handling, stacking, warehouse storage, and over the road or ocean transport
- Validate prototype designs to guarantee they meet rigorous mechanical and physical transport demands
- Support the operational plant launch phase by rapidly executing packaging concepts from initial design to floor implementation
- Work alongside cross functional manufacturing, quality, and procurement teams to define supplier packaging specifications
Requirements
- 2 to 6 years of proven experience in packaging engineering, industrial packaging design, or structural logistics packaging
- Strong proficiency in analyzing 2D/3D CAD blueprints and working with structural engineering concepts
- Active experience utilizing advanced container loading or pallet/cube optimization software (e.g., TOPS PRO, Cape Pack, or equivalent)
- Demonstrated experience engineering expendable (one use) packaging arrays, custom dunnage, corrugated materials, and protective foam
- Clear understanding of long haul transit dynamics, protective packaging physics, and space maximization
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Role Description
- The Packaging Engineer is responsible for designing and implementing protective, cost efficient industrial packaging solutions specifically engineered for manufacturing parts.
- Operating in a fast paced plant launch environment, this role ensures that all components are securely contained, optimized for density, and fully protected across long haul transit networks.
- The successful candidate will blend technical design capabilities with logistics data, analyzing engineering blueprints and using advanced simulation software to deliver robust packaging configurations that minimize freight costs and eliminate transit damage.
Responsibilities
- Analyze CAD blueprints of manufacturing parts to understand geometry, fragile points, and structural requirements.
- Engineer expendable (one use) packaging arrays, including custom cartons, custom dunnage, corrugated shippers, and protective foam inserts.
- Develop robust, protective packaging architectures tailored to safe guarding high value or complex industrial components.
- Utilize specialized cube optimization and container loading software to maximize shipping space and container density.
- Calculate and design arrays to increase pallet yields, reducing overall freight expenses and footprint.
- Collaborate with logistics and supply chain teams to align packaging dimensions with standard freight configurations.
- Ensure all engineered packaging designs provide maximum long haul transit protection across international supply chains.
- Mitigate risk of part damage during handling, stacking, warehouse storage, and over the road or ocean transport.
- Validate prototype designs to guarantee they meet rigorous mechanical and physical transport demands.
- Support the operational plant launch phase by rapidly executing packaging concepts from initial design to floor implementation.
- Work alongside cross functional manufacturing, quality, and procurement teams to define supplier packaging specifications.
Requirements
- 2 to 6 years of proven experience in packaging engineering, industrial packaging design, or structural logistics packaging.
- Strong proficiency in analyzing 2D/3D CAD blueprints and working with structural engineering concepts.
- Active experience utilizing advanced container loading or pallet/cube optimization software (e.g., TOPS PRO, Cape Pack, or equivalent).
- Demonstrated experience engineering expendable (one use) packaging arrays, custom dunnage, corrugated materials, and protective foam.
- Clear understanding of long haul transit dynamics, protective packaging physics, and space maximization.
- Open to all nationalities, ages, and genders; must be ready to operate effectively in an intensive manufacturing plant launch environment.
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