Packaging Design Engineer

Summary

Lovevery is a digitally native brand focused on creating meaningful development experiences for children in their early years. The Packaging Design Engineer will support structural packaging development across e-commerce, retained, and retail programs by designing packaging solutions, maintaining specifications, preparing technical documentation, and improving sustainability, performance, quality, user experience, and cost.

Responsibilities

• Develop packaging solutions for both e-commerce and retail packaging environments. This will include primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging that adheres to strict safety, regulatory, sustainability, and performance requirements
• Maintain an up-to-date database of packaging specifications using software platforms such as ArtiosCAD,, TOPS, SolidWorks, and Adobe Illustrator
• Prepare technical drawings including specification sheets, bills-of-material, pallet patterns, and other documentation necessary for manufacturing
• Evaluate new and existing packaging solutions to improve user experience, sustainability, performance, quality, and cost

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in industrial design, packaging engineering, or a related field of study
• Experience developing packaging for market-bound items that have become purchasable
• Expert knowledge of packaging materials and manufacturing processes
• Expert knowledge of sustainable packaging design practices
• Experience providing direct input to product profitability assessments to help determine fully burdened costs associated with freight and fulfillment
• Experience designing packaging for products made of our most common materials, including wood, plastic, and cotton
• Proven understanding and ability to design for print production
• Passion for packaging design and a basic understanding of macro design trends
• A portfolio showing your ability to think visually and work through digital and physical iterations of an idea
• The successful candidate will exhibit a high degree of proficiency in the following software platforms:
• ArtiosCAD
• TOPS
• SolidWorks
• Adobe Illustrator
• Complete understanding of toy safety standards related to both distribution and retained packaging
• Familiarity with manufacturing processes for toy manufacturing, including injection molding and wood manufacturing

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Bachelor's degree in industrial design, packaging engineering, or a related field of study
• Experience developing packaging for market-bound items that have become purchasable
• Expert knowledge of packaging materials and manufacturing processes
• Expert knowledge of sustainable packaging design practices
• Experience providing direct input to product profitability assessments to help determine fully burdened costs associated with freight and fulfillment
• Experience designing packaging for products made of our most common materials, including wood, plastic, and cotton
• Proven understanding and ability to design for print production
• Passion for packaging design and a basic understanding of macro design trends
• A portfolio showing your ability to think visually and work through digital and physical iterations of an idea
• The successful candidate will exhibit a high degree of proficiency in the following software platforms:
• ArtiosCAD
• TOPS
• SolidWorks
• Adobe Illustrator

Nice to Haves

• Complete understanding of toy safety standards related to both distribution and retained packaging
• Familiarity with manufacturing processes for toy manufacturing, including injection molding and wood manufacturing

Benefits

• This position is remote and can be based anywhere in the United States.