Test Engineering Technologist - Process Packaging

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Plan, execute, analyze, and lead system-level and part-quality testing for new product development initiatives.
• Establish baseline processes, cycle-time limits, and process-window limits; troubleshoot part-quality and system defects.
• Support testing of new applications and materials, including bioresins, rPET, multilayer PET and packaging, and medical applications.
• Contribute to process guidelines and best practices and help set pass/fail criteria for new applications.
• Participate in upfront risk identification, test-plan review, and efforts to improve data reliability.
• Challenge design performance and robustness and identify issues and improvement opportunities up to the system level.
• Support customer startups and early adopters through system buyoff or acceptance and product launch team support.

Required experience

• At least 5 years testing and troubleshooting complex mechanical systems.
• At least 5 years working in project teams with internal and external customers.
• At least 5 years in plastic processing and part-quality optimization; thinwall packaging process experience is a prerequisite.
• Experience with PET preforms, closures, or medical applications is beneficial.

Preferred education

• A BS in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a Polymer Science background is preferred.

Capabilities

• The posting identifies initiative, motivation, flexibility, attention to detail, communication, subject-matter expertise, results orientation, integrity, respect, and teamwork.
• Expertise should relate to plastic processing and part-quality optimization, with a focus on packaging applications and resins.
• Willingness to travel is listed.

Pay

• The posting lists a salary range of $38.50–$45 without specifying a pay cadence.

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