Packaging Materials Senior Engineer

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Your role at Clorox:

The Technical Services Production Services Packaging Engineer supports Supply Chain with a focus on packaging materials, new product innovation, cost savings, supply assurance, brand maintenance, packaging sustainability, and product quality. This role demands proactive leadership from innovation to production start-ups, encompassing supplier qualifications, data analysis, problem-solving, specification development, manufacturing trials, Design to Value innovation, change management, and regulatory compliance. Direct technical leadership and communication across Supply Chain, R&D, and manufacturing are key, involving leadership in small- to medium-sized projects and contributing packaging materials expertise to larger initiatives. Effective coordination of resources is essential for problem-solving, risk management, adapting to changing priorities, and supporting new work processes and change management.

In this role, you will:

• Leadership of Production Services Packaging activities and deliverables. Activities include developing plans, performing work, and ensuring proper change management processes & product information are entered in Clorox databases.
• Participate on project teams (leadership if appropriate) to ensure “process” rigor and adherence to internal & external compliance requirements and standards. Review and ensure technical information is current, accurate, complete, and has gained proper concurrences (when appropriate).
• Build strong alliances with other internal & external technical, business, suppliers, and consultant leaders. Develop skills, experiences, and recognition as a key functional resource in packaging material engineering and practices.
• Leadership using problem-solving skills such as developing hypotheses, crafting and performing test plans, and analyzing data.  Ability to independently develop conclusions and recommendations.        
• Develop and transfer knowledge regarding the packaging materials and machine interfaces.
• Support project teams delivering initiatives for the Cleaning Business Unit. Work closely with manager to develop plans, implement activities, and deliver results.
• Proactive and independent leadership to remove or communicate barriers allowing work to be completed effectively and efficiently.
• Build and support an environment driving an innovative, collaborative, and a “process” oriented workplace & culture.
• Seek opportunities to help project teams and internal customers development new ways of working while performing work.
• Provide packaging materials knowledge and support to Cleaning BU functions such as R&D, Procurement, manufacturing, and commercialization project management.
• Independently lead small to medium size projects.
• Collaborate with and influence manufacturing & functional teams using tools such as scope or project plan documents, business driven recommendations, and presentations.
• Independently establish action steps, activity prioritization, and ensure risk communications are elevated for awareness to direct manager and other functional leaders.
• Support Production Services packaging function to drive adherence of management of change processes.
• Support to ensure process and data accuracy for packaging material and finished product packaging in Clorox databases such as PLM. Ensure process rigor with all work.

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What we look for:

• Five years of industrial experience in consumer product company (manufacturing, technical, or R&D). Desire to have previous packaging material experience.  
• Bachelor of Science from an accredited institution. prefer packaging, mechanical, or chemical engineering.
• Ability to fluently communicate (oral and written) in English language.
• Strong pro-active technical and activity leadership skills including influence, collaboration, and conflict resolution.  Ability to work under direction of their immediate manager.
• Highly flexible and adaptable. Able to work independently in a fast-paced multitasking environment on multiple projects.
• Strong interpersonal skills; may be sole representative of Production Services on cross-functional technical project teams.
• Strong problem-sol