R&D Engineer Co-op - Summer 2025

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 2023, Sealed Air generated $5.5 billion in revenue in 2023 and had approximately 17,000 employees operating out of 46 countries/territories and distributing products in 115 countries/territories around the world. To learn more, visit www.sealedair.com.

Position Summary

LOCATION: Charlotte, NC

Duncan, SC available as an alternative location.

 

Design, build, and test next-generation automated packaging equipment with a dynamic, fun team in either Charlotte, NC (Corporate HQ) or Duncan, SC (Production HQ)

 

Here are some examples of the equipment that we design: 

 

• Robotic Bag Loaders
• Printing System
• Conveyors

 

Our Interns and Co-ops typically have a primary project that they work on for the duration of their term, in addition to smaller learning and training opportunities and mini-projects. 

This is not a desk-only job, you'll be back and forth between a CAD station, our testing and assembly labs, and talking to people.

Engineering

• Plan and conduct food packaging equipment research projects
• Work hands-on to test, troubleshoot, assemble, and modify various pieces of food packaging equipment and their components
• Work with Application Experts in their field
• Work with manufacturing to build prototypes and commercial equipment
• Prepare and modify engineering drawings for ongoing projects
• Plan and conduct testing of machines to validate fitness for use in the field

Personal Development

• Informal and Formal mentorship and exposure to leadership
• Present to Leadership at the end of each rotation
• Speaking opportunities, written communication coaching, and "how-to-corporate"

Opportunities to Learn

• Machine Shop Skills
• Machine and Electrical Safety
• Process and Manufacturing Controls
   

Note: Our primary customers are in the raw protein industry.  Many of our internal tests involve handling protein products (think of products that you could buy in the meat case at the grocery store and putting them through a machine).