Packaging Engineer - Senior

DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a talented Packaging Engineer- Senior to join our team specializing in Logistics for our Corporate organization in Seymour, IN .

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

• Drive effective packaging and container system designs by applying specialized engineering expertise throughout the full product lifecycle.
• Collaborate cross-functionally and with customers/suppliers to define clear design requirements for expendable and returnable packaging solutions.
• Identify and implement improvements that enhance packaging quality, reduce total cost, and minimize waste in alignment with organizational goals.
• Determine optimal returnable container fleet sizing through coordination with logistics, inventory, and operations teams.
• Develop site‑specific packaging requirements that align with Cummins Global Packaging Standards, safety guidelines, storage needs, and line‑side presentation requirements.
• Ensure supplier adherence to packaging specifications, standards, and regulatory requirements for both inbound and outbound shipments.
• Support Indirect Purchasing by providing technical guidance during packaging procurement initiatives to ensure cost‑effective, compliant solutions.
• Leverage strong business acumen and continuous development to drive sound decision‑making, cost‑based analysis, and consistent operational results.

RESPONSIBILITIES

To be successful in this role you will need the following:

• Action oriented - Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Ensures accountability - Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Manages complexity - Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Data Analytics - Discovers, interprets and communicates qualitative and quantitative data; determines conclusions relying on knowledge of business or functional frameworks; simultaneously applies statistics, data validity, data visualization, and problem solving approaches to effectively extract meaningful patterns and business insights; presents conclusions and outcomes that enable data driven business decisions.
• Environmentally Sustainable Packaging Principles - Outlines the environmentally sustainable packaging material selection and its life cycle impact by describing selection criteria, performance considerations and application in designing order to achieve the goal to reduce, reuse, recycle or reclaim.
• Industrial Packaging Design - Develops primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging designs for industrial products through the application of engineering techniques to ensure product protection for all touch points of an end to end supply chain.
• Operations Integration in Industrial Packaging - Demonstrates and applies knowledge of manufacturing process, equipment and the physical flows of inbound parts to finished goods to establish industrial packaging methods and equipment that integrate safely and efficiently into the operational environment.
• Packaging Distribution Conditions and Dynamics - Recognizes environmental conditions and dynamic forces placed on packaging in supply chains by explaining the hazards and corresponding requirements that ensure product protection.
• Packaging Material Knowledge - Demonstrates the benefits of using different packaging mediums by articulating their physical properties, types and characteristics to select the packaging materials for the application, product protection, cost and impact on the environment.
• Packaging Testing - Evaluates performance validation tests, standards and reports to distinguish which method to apply; interprets test reports and draws conclusions in order to ensure packaging performance meets transit and handling conditions through end to end supply chain.
• Returnable Packaging Management - Gathers and analyzes financial data, fleet sizing, tracking, maintenance, logistics and performance monitoring requirements to develop a returnable packaging program that delivers savings in material and transportation while reducing waste.
• Problem Solving - Solves problems and may mentor others on effective problem solving by using a systematic analysis process by leveraging industry standard methodologies to create problem traceability and protect the customer; determines the assignable cause; implements robust, data-based solutions; identifies the systemic root causes and ensures actions to prevent problem reoccurrence are implemented.
• Values differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

Education, Licenses, Certifications:

• Bachelor degree in Engineering or related discipline is required. Packaging Engineering or Packaging Science degree is highly preferred.
• This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

Experience:

• 3-5 years of Packaging Engineering or related experience is required

QUALIFICATIONS

Additional Responsibilities:

• 1–2 years of experience leading strategic initiatives and driving measurable outcomes
• Strong background in packaging engineering within automotive or heavy industrial manufacturing environments
• Proven track record of effectively managing and developing teams of packaging technicians

Job Logistics

Organization Cummins Inc.

Role Category On-site with Flexibility

Job Type Exempt - Experienced

Min Salary $

Max Salary $

ReqID 2424138

Relocation Package No

100% On-Site No

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