Packaging Structural Design Spec 3

RR Donnelley•Santa Clara, CA

5d•Onsite

About The Position

RRD is a leading global provider of marketing, packaging, print, and supply chain solutions. The company offers a trusted portfolio of creative execution and business process consulting services designed to lower environmental impact. With 22,000 clients, including 93% of the Fortune 100, and 32,000 employees across 28 countries, RRD provides expertise, execution, and scale to transform customer touchpoints into meaningful moments of impact. As a Packaging Structural Designer 3, you will be a key member of the Sales Enablement Team, transforming ideas into product and revenue. You will participate in packaging design projects from inception to production for key consumer electronics clients, serving as the primary interface with clients to ensure their design intent is achieved. You will integrate and prioritize instructions from clients, internal account teams, and management to develop packaging solutions that surpass customer expectations. Your role involves identifying and developing the best possible packaging solution by assessing information from clients, business development, sales, manufacturing, and project managers to create innovative structural design solutions with visual and structural integrity, cost-effective manufacturability, and assembly. You will manage the entire design project, including design creation, quick-turn prototyping of various iterations for client review, collaborating with global design and manufacturing teams in Asia and India to ensure designs are manufacturable and easily automated, and conducting predictive product testing and analyzing data to predict design viability. You will design precision packaging in various formats and materials, including corrugated, folding carton, wrapped corrugated, and wrapped grayboard. You will create precision mass production structural prototypes using standard tools such as a Zund/Konsberg cutting table, v-miterer, drop tester, and 3D printers. You will deliver mock-ups, three-dimensional drawings, illustrative renderings, technical drawings, and assembly instructions as visual communications to demonstrate manufacturing intent to clients. You will also create organized, clear, and consistent specifications, dielines, and BOMs.

Requirements

Master’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Packaging, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field
Three (3) years of related work experience
Three (3) years of experience in client engagement and interfacing directly with clients and transforming ideas into shippable products and revenue
Three (3) years of experience in identifying critical elements, variables, and alternatives to develop packaging design solutions
Three (3) years of experience in structural design of packaging specifically for Precision Consumer Electronics packaging
Three (3) years of experience in structural design in consumer product, educational, publishing, retail, consumer products, technology, or pharmaceutical markets
Three (3) years of experience in handling packaging, manufacturing equipment, processes, and capabilities
Three (3) years of experience in working with packaging and prototyping equipment and processes
Three (3) years of experience using a Digital Cutting Table including v-grooving capabilities and 3D Printer and Drop Tester
Three (3) years of experience working with ArtiosCAD, TOP/CAPE, and Adobe Illustrator Software Programs
Three (3) years of experience using Adobe Creative Suite and Solidworks/Rhino 3D
Three (3) years of experience working with and conducting packing testing procedures such as ISTA, TAPPI, and ASTM
Two (2) years of experience working with global and multilingual teams
Must be available for daily flexible schedule of engaging with US clients during US afternoon and executing with project teams in India and China in the evening

Responsibilities

Participate in packaging design projects from inception into production for key consumer electronics clients
Serve as primary interface with clients to ensure client’s design intent is achieved
Integrate and prioritize instructions from clients, internal account teams, and management to develop packaging solutions that surpass customer expectations
Identify and develop the best possible packaging solution
Assess the information provided by the clients, business development, sales, manufacturing, and project managers to create innovative structural design solutions using the visual and structural integrity and cost-effective manufacturability and assembly
Manage whole design project including design creation, quick turn prototyping of various iterations of the design for review with the client
Collaborate with global design and manufacturing team in Asia and India to ensure designs are manufacturable and can be automated easily
Conduct predictive product testing and analyze test data to predict design viability
Design precision packaging in a multitude of formats and materials, including corrugated, folding carton, wrapped corrugated, wrapped grayboard
Create with ease, precision mass production structural prototypes using a Zund/Konsberg cutting table, v-miterer, drop tester, and 3D printers as standard tools
Deliver mock-ups, three-dimensional drawings, illustrative renderings, technical drawings, and assembly instructions as visual communications to demonstrate MP intent to clients
Create organized, clear, and consistent specifications, dielines, and BOMs