Application Engineer

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. In 2023, Sealed Air generated $5.5 billion in revenue 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 .

Sealed Air is seeking a driven individual to focus on developing new products for the packaging industry. This individual should have the ability to understand packaging materials, packaging systems, industry standard test methods, and our customers’ operations. The qualified candidate will be responsible for using heightened curiosity to develop test plans, conduct fitness-for-use testing, communicate results, and make expert recommendations on a path forward to customers, their team, and key stakeholders. In addition to the development of new packaging solutions, this role is tasked with supporting our business by training, troubleshooting, and communicating the performance of our solutions to both internal stakeholders and our customers.

Primary Responsibilities

• Leverage chemical, mechanical, electrical or similar engineering expertise to provide key recommendations to existing innovation projects, generate novel ideas for new development machine projects, and lead final validation for machine and material innovation projects based on customer pain points.
• Travel consistently to key customers to fully understand their pain points and develop efficient and effective strategies to mitigate those customer pain points.
• Possess strong self-motivation and independent work ethic.
• Evaluate new material and system designs through rigorous testing and an understanding of critical customer’s needs while working within a team environment to address real-world problems.
• Propose and implement strategic ideas that drive the enhancement of current product lines or the development of new product lines to drive increased profit.
• Provide technical solutions to customers, external vendors, field representatives, and the broader Innovation & Development organization through on-site customer support and visits to other Sealed Air facilities.
• Collect and share feedback from internal and external customers to influence decisions that drive profitable change within new and existing product offerings.
• Develop, design, and conduct test plans and field trials that validate the reliability of the equipment, materials, and their interactions.
• Conduct root-cause analysis to produce high-quality results and provide technical documentation that enables data-driven business decisions.
• Create customer intimacy by utilizing soft skills, sales skills, and influencing techniques to drive collaboration.
• Lead technical teams to enable supply chain improvements to manufacturing processes and raw materials.
• Create value-propositions and competitive intelligence for Sealed Air’s developmental solutions.
• Gather front-end intelligence on our customer’s needs to drive the next innovations for Sealed Air.
• Partner with the Materials & Process Engineering Team, the Sustainability Team, the Equipment Teams, Marketing, and Supply Chain to develop and transfer technologies regionally and globally.
• Work effectively within a matrix-managed organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science Degree in a science, engineering, or packaging discipline.
• Mechanical or electrical engineering degrees preferred.
• Master’s degree in a technical discipline is preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years professional experience.
• Strong self-motivation and problem-solving initiatives to collaborate with teams located in different locations.
• Flexible travel domestically and internationally, at least 30%.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience creating data-driven reports to communicate technical ideas.
• Experience with data analysis and relevant programs is desired.
• Ability to effectively present concepts and ideas.
• Experience managing multiple tasks, often with competing deadlines.
• Professional, highly-motivated, reliable, and solutions-oriented.
• Must possess strong interpersonal skills and a work ethic that corresponds with Sealed Air’s core values.

Requisition id: 48236

Relocation: No

Sealed Air is committed to attracting, selecting, and developing talent that reflects the diversity of the communities and customers we serve. We take pride in our selection process to identify, infuse, and grow talent to align with our culture, values, and norms. Sealed Air prioritizes talent development, fostering a culture of continuous growth and career progression. The company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and to all employees, without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, protected disability, veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.