Senior Packaging System Design Engineer III
- Mississauga, ON, Canada
Full-time
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Job details
- Job type
- Full-time
- Experience
- 8-11 years of work experience in related field
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
As a Packaging Engineer, your responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:
Responsibilities
We plan, design, engineer, and build food plants for major brands across the country and the world. For the past three decades, we’ve focused exclusively on the food and beverage industry, helping your favorite brands put your favorite foods in the grocery store. Simply put, food isn’t one thing we do, it’s all we do.
Dennis Group offers competitive compensation packages commensurate with experience. We provide comprehensive employee benefits including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, paid time off including an open vacation policy, as well as bonus, profit-sharing, and retirement plans.
Dennis Group is proud to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.
Travel Required
Yes. 50%-70% travel required throughout the year
Responsibilities
- Design:
- Create basis of design and scope of work documents
- Develop design concepts
- Develop functional specifications for packaging lines
- Work with sanitary design concepts for liquid, powder, and shaped products
- Create AutoCAD equipment layouts
- Interpret mechanical design requirements and customer specifications
- Review and approve vendor shop drawings and discipline coordination drawings
- Engineering:
- Be a subject matter expert in at least one packaging area
- Manage multiple projects
- Create packaging flow diagrams, material balance, packaging matrix, equipment specifications, OEE documents, speed matrix and V- Curve
- Develop project budgets
- Create and follow up with equipment bid packages
- Develop and maintain delivery and installation schedule
- Understand size and placement of support equipment
- Provide expertise in manufacturing and packaging design principles
- Design systems including conveyance, wrapping, bagging, cartoning, filling, bottling, case packing and palletizing
- Assist in process simulation
- Develop project specific procurement documents for packaging equipment
- Assist with machine and process design
- Preparation of machine testing requirements and procedures
- Site work:
- Survey existing conditions
- On-site construction project coordination
- Manage installation and commissioning of packaging equipment
- Manage equipment vendors and installation crews
- Lead and/or participate in presentations at client meetings
- Lead factory acceptance testing at vendors shop
- Lead a team including coaching and mentoring of employees
- Be the client contact and lead engineer on multiple projects
- Must have led a project team that installed a packaging system with components including conveyance, wrapping, bagging, cartoning, filling, bottling, case packing or palletizing
- Departmental growth:
- Continual research of packaging engineering best practices
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, packaging, industrial, or manufacturing engineering
- 8-11 years of work experience in related field
- Must have multiple large project experience in project definition, equipment design/layout, process design, equipment design, machine testing procedures, installation and commissioning of equipment
- Experience working for food and beverage manufacturing or food and beverage design firms is required.
- Proficiency with MS Office, MS Project, and AutoCAD
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Intellectual curiosity and a positive, can-do, team-oriented attitude
- Strong problem solving, organizing, and time management skills
- Must meet Travel Requirement - On-site construction project coordination and management with travel requirements between 50%-70% of the year
- Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Must be able to lift-up to 15 pounds at times.
- 50%-70% travel required throughout the year to visit project site and other offices.
We plan, design, engineer, and build food plants for major brands across the country and the world. For the past three decades, we’ve focused exclusively on the food and beverage industry, helping your favorite brands put your favorite foods in the grocery store. Simply put, food isn’t one thing we do, it’s all we do.
Dennis Group offers competitive compensation packages commensurate with experience. We provide comprehensive employee benefits including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, paid time off including an open vacation policy, as well as bonus, profit-sharing, and retirement plans.
Dennis Group is proud to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.
Travel Required
Yes. 50%-70% travel required throughout the year
More about this job
Responsibilities
Design and develop functional specifications for food and beverage packaging lines, including equipment layouts and process flow diagrams. Lead the installation, commissioning, and vendor management of packaging systems while mentoring junior employees.
Requirements
Requires a Bachelor's degree in mechanical, packaging, industrial, or manufacturing engineering with 8-11 years of experience. Must have a proven track record of leading large-scale packaging system installations within the food and beverage industry.
Skills
- Packaging System Design
- AutoCAD
- Project Management
- Sanitary Design
- Equipment Layout
- Process Simulation
- Vendor Management
- Commissioning
- Factory Acceptance Testing
- Budget Development
- Mechanical Engineering
- MS Project
Benefits
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Paid Time Off
- Open Vacation Policy
- Bonus
- Profit-sharing
- Retirement Plans
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Engineering
- Manufacturing
- Food & Beverage
- Construction
- Management & Leadership
Keywords
- Packaging Engineering
- AutoCAD
- MS Office
- MS Project
- Food and Beverage
- Conveyance
- Wrapping
- Bagging
- Cartoning
- Filling
- Bottling
- Case Packing
- Palletizing
- OEE
- V-Curve
- Material Balance
- Sanitary Design
- Commissioning
- FAT
- Project Definition
- Equipment Specifications