Senior Packaging Engineer

Location: Charlotte, NC - Great Relocation Package

Job Type: Full-time

About the Role: A growing beverage business is seeking a Senior Packaging Engineer to lead primary packaging development for ready-to-drink products. This role focuses on aluminum cans, glass bottles, and PET multiserve bottles, from material selection and design through production scale-up.

Responsibilities: Develop and improve beverage packaging for product quality, shelf stability, cost, and manufacturability. Select and test materials, components, closures, and labels; maintain packaging specifications. Support packaging scale-up and troubleshoot production issues involving can seams, glass, PET bottles, closures, and labels. Partner with Product Development, Quality, Supply Chain, Production, and packaging suppliers. Keep current with packaging technologies, food-contact requirements, and industry standards.

Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Packaging Engineering, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.5+ years of packaging engineering experience in beverage, food, or consumer goods. Hands-on experience with aluminum cans, glass bottles, and PET bottles. Knowledge of can seaming, filling and capping, stretch blow molding, closures, and high-speed packaging lines. Familiarity with quality tools such as SPC, FMEA, or PPAP.Strong project management, communication, and problem-solving skills.