Sr. Field Engineer (remote)

Sealed Air designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient. We strive to foster a caring, high-performance growth culture that will deliver consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerate our performance – a culture where accountability is clear and aligned, and where we reward business outcomes and impact. That culture guides everything we do, including how we partner with our customers and suppliers, how we attract and retain top talent, and how we create and deliver value for our stakeholders. In 2024, Sealed Air generated $5.4 billion in revenue and had approximately 16,400 employees distributing products and services to 117 countries/territories around the world. To learn more, visit www.sealedair.com.

Job Description

The primary role of a Sr. Field Engineer is to develop, upgrade, and deploy new processes and equipment for our Sealed Air production facilities. A Sr. Field Engineer should be able to safely operate our manufacturing equipment and experimental processes and will be instrumental in new equipment and process startups.  They should possess the ability to design and implement modifications to existing processes and should have highly functioning mechatronics skills. A Sr. Field Engineer should possess a working knowledge of our materials, manufacturing processes, and resulting products. A continuous learning mindset and hands-on approach is expected. This role is remote but ideally near Charlotte, NC, Dallas, TX, or Chicago, IL – or within 1 hour of a major international airport.

Responsibilities:

• This candidate must be able to work alone or in a team environment with other engineer(s) and designer(s) to identify, formulate, and implement design solutions.
• Apply process and equipment troubleshooting in plants, labs, and corporate environments. 
• Installation, checkout, and startup support of equipment in any of the Sealed Air plants.
• Lead or take part in safety risk assessments and implement corrective actions.
• Collaborate and communicate with multi-discipline teams consisting of engineering, EH&S, management, maintenance, internal customers, contractors, and suppliers to ensure solutions are cost effective and meet the desired design criteria.
• Apply strong mechanical, electrical, automation, and technical skills to all facets of the project to include planning and solution development, equipment specification and procurement, machine design, and onsite startup support.
• Utilize knowledge of PLC architecture and ladder logic to troubleshoot controls issues and make minor changes as needed.
• Identify and evaluate new technologies that can be incorporated into the existing processes to improve yield, increase throughput, and/or reduce cost.
• Support the development and training of standard operating procedures as well as preventative and predictive maintenance documentation. 
• Frequent domestic and international travel required. (50-80% travel)

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an applicable technical field and 8-10+ years of directly related engineering or technical experience required OR Associate’s degree in an applicable technical field and 12-15+ years of directly related technical experience required.
• 8 plus years of experience with manufacturing processes and equipment. 
• Work experience in plastic packaging, extrusion, web handling, and converting processes are a plus.
• Proven skill with process and equipment troubleshooting. 
• Strong communication skills across multiple disciplines, including management.
• Hands-on experience & ability