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Principal Engineer, R&D

2 months ago


Chicago, Illinois, United States Tropicana Brands Group Full time

About Tropicana Brands Group

Tropicana Brands Group is a leading player in the juice industry, with a portfolio of beloved brands including Tropicana, Naked, KeVita, Izze, Dole, Copella, and Punica. Our company was established in 2022 as a joint venture between PAI Partners and PepsiCo, combining the expertise of a global food and beverage leader with the agility of a startup.

We have a global footprint of over 2,000 associates across North America and Europe, with a strong presence in innovation, R&D, manufacturing, distribution, sales, marketing, and nutrition expertise. Our vision is to quench the world's thirst for more delight and nourishment, while continuing to build upon our commitment to diversity, sustainability, local community, and philanthropy.

Key Responsibilities:

We are seeking a highly qualified Principal Packaging Engineer to lead package innovation and ensure the company's goals and initiatives are met. This role will support new product development teams as an integral team member, providing design, development, qualification, and validation of new and/or improved packages for our chilled and ambient juice portfolios.

The ideal candidate will be a critical thinker with exceptional communication, influencing, and relationship management skills who thrives in a fast-paced environment. As a member of our nimble R&D team, you will be given opportunities to stretch, lead, and learn that many other larger organizations do not offer.

Additional Responsibilities:

  • Identify, evaluate, and develop packaging solutions that meet business, manufacturing, customer, and consumer needs.
  • Maintain open communication and build strong relationships with internal & external teams from suppliers to cross functions.
  • Innovative thinking and solution-oriented problem-solving skills. Knowledge of troubleshooting tools/techniques desired.
  • Demonstrate an ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial and consumer-driven environment.
  • Lead as an active member of cross-functional business development teams comprised of individuals from a variety of disciplines, including Marketing, Purchasing, Engineering and other groups.
  • Provide support to manufacturing teams during the implementation of commercialization activities and packaging changes.
  • Outstanding teamwork, collaboration, communication, and leadership skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to work effectively and manage risk in a fast-paced environment with ambiguity and change.
  • Maintains and leverages external network of material and equipment vendors and co-manufacturing partners.
  • Tackle ambiguous problems to determine and prioritize business strategies.
  • Demonstrated ability to implement short- and long-term strategies to support organizational operation and transformation.
  • Identifies and drives cost savings opportunities, looking both at individual component level as well as process improvements and manufacturing efficiency gains.
  • Create 'go to market' solutions that deliver product efficiently via multiple distribution platforms.
  • Utilize innovative and critical thinking skills to design solutions to for organizational challenges.

Professional Experience / Qualifications:

  • BS in Packaging Science/Engineering, Chemical or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent, advanced degree preferred.
  • Minimum 5-10 years work experience within food/beverage packaging.
  • 25% domestic travel
  • Must have experience in the development and execution of primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging materials and have knowledge of the interrelationship with equipment.
  • Must have experience executing scale up activities; writing plant trial protocols, leading scale up trials at manufacturing sites, and completing trial reports with recommendations for manufacturing to deliver successful production of a finished good.
  • Strong project management skills in developing project timelines with multiple cross-functional touchpoints.
  • Must have strong conceptual, analytical, and technical skills with excellent communication and presentation skills.
  • Proven track record in maintaining good working relationship with cross functional business partners (Marketing, Supply Chain, Sales, etc.)
  • Nimble business mind with a focus on developing creative solutions.
  • Highly organized with great attention to detail and able to adapt quickly to changing priorities and unexpected requests.
  • Must be able to lift product cases unassisted at plant trials and prepare pallets for testing.
  • Must be able to sit or work on foot for extended periods of time.