Packaging Materials Senior Engineer

Clorox • Alpharetta, GA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Packaging Materials Senior Engineer is part of Clorox's technical services team and delivers customer-oriented support and results for Supply Chain in focus areas of packaging materials, cost savings, supply assurance, brand maintenance, packaging sustainability, and finished product quality. This role requires a proven leader with significant packaging knowledge, manufacturing operations, packaging material procurement, and product quality, who is ready to lead change focused on packaging material initiatives. The individual will work with cross-functional teams and interface with manufacturing facilities to ensure product availability. Clorox believes in hiring top performers with a diverse range of backgrounds.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (Bachelor of Science preferred) from an accredited institution. Preferred fields of study: Packaging Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or related discipline.
• Minimum of five years of industrial experience within a consumer products company in manufacturing, technical, packaging, or R&D functions.
• Strong technical leadership skills, including influence, collaboration, conflict resolution, and cross-functional teamwork.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Strong problem-solving, root-cause analysis, and decision-making capabilities.
• Ability to work independently while effectively managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong organizational, workload planning, and time-management skills.
• Adaptable, flexible, and comfortable managing changing priorities.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to represent technical services on cross-functional project teams.
• Demonstrated commitment to change management, process rigor, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with Supply Chain, R&D, Manufacturing, and external partners to deliver results.

Nice To Haves

• Packaging materials experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provides proactive technical leadership from charter approvals through production start-up.
• Supplier qualification, data analysis, problem solving, specification development, manufacturing trials, Design-to-Value innovation, change management, and regulatory compliance.
• Provides technical leadership and collaboration across Supply Chain, R&D, Manufacturing, Procurement, Commercialization, and external partners.
• Serves as a packaging materials subject matter expert, leading small- to medium-sized projects and contributing specialized expertise to larger initiatives.
• Lead technical services packaging activities, including planning, execution, and implementation of packaging-related deliverables.
• Independently manage small- to medium-sized projects, establishing priorities, action plans, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Support project teams within the Cleaning Business Unit to develop plans, implement activities, and achieve business objectives.
• Apply structured problem-solving methods, including hypothesis development, test planning, data analysis, root-cause investigation, and recommendation development.
• Ensure adherence to internal and external compliance requirements, standards, and management-of-change processes.
• Maintain accurate and complete packaging material and finished product information in company databases, including PLM systems.
• Develop, maintain, and transfer knowledge related to packaging materials and packaging machine interfaces.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders, suppliers, consultants, and manufacturing partners.
• Collaborate with and influence cross-functional teams through business recommendations, project plans, presentations, and technical expertise.
• Identify and remove barriers to project execution while proactively communicating risks, issues, and opportunities.
• Foster an innovative, collaborative, and process-driven work environment.
• Support continuous improvement and new ways of working across projects and business processes.
• Provide packaging materials expertise to business functions including R&D, Procurement, Manufacturing, and Commercialization.
• Support all U.S. Cleaning product categories.

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs.
• Robust health plans
• Market-leading 401(k) program with a company match
• Flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays depending on location)
• Inclusive fertility/adoption benefits
• This job is also eligible for participation in Clorox’s incentive plans, subject to the terms of the applicable plan documents and policies.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior