Technical Specification Management Engineer

American Packaging Corporation•Columbus, WI

About The Position

At American Packaging Corporation (APC), you’ll find the packaging career you’ve been looking for. With competitive salaries, excellent benefits, 401(k) plans and tuition reimbursement programs, we nurture our employees while advancing and promoting diversity and inclusion. As the leading flexible packaging converter in North America for over a century, APC’s longstanding success is fueled from the inside out. We’re constantly seeking to improve our internal operations and were named a “Best of the Best” in the Best workplaces in the America’s awards for 12 years in a row. It’s how and why we engage the best and brightest talent to continue propelling our shared success into the future. LOCATION: Corporate – any COE SUMMARY: A Technical Specification Management Engineer develops, reviews and maintains detailed technical documentation, standards, and requirements for products or systems to ensure quality, compliance, and functionality. This position will bridge the gap between design, engineering, procurement, and manufacturing teams by managing the technical specification lifecycle, including version control, revisions and stakeholder feedback.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree (B. A.) in a Technical Field (Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry, etc.) from a four-year college or university; or equivalent combination of education and experience
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations
Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals
Ability to effectively present information predominantly technical in nature and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public
Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form
occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, and talk or hear
Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision

Nice To Haves

The ideal candidate for this position will have a broad knowledge of packaging, materials, equipment in the flexible packaging space, awareness of the sustainable space including standards and guidelines, and passion for educating, promoting, and growing sustainable packaging within APC and our customer base.
Skillful in presentation skills both in preparation and delivery is preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead and Optimize the Specification Process and Systems
Approval of Product Specification changes
Raw Material Information is Available and Acceptable
Regulatory and Customer Expectations are Being Met
Process Capabilities is reviewed and Decisions are made with Manufacturing
Lead Raw Material Qualification Projects for Commercial Specifications (Continuous Improvement)
Lead a team ensuring Item Builds and Technical Data are accurate and the team is responsive to the business
Develop and Integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) into APC’s development and specifications process in conjunction with IT and other stakeholders
Own the Change management (DC Process) for all other product specification updates when required
Analyze and Maintain Accuracy of Specifications and Data related to our Technical Products, including integration of data to Radius (ERP System) and other platforms
Obsolete old raw materials and remove them from product specs
Ensure Radius is aligned with specifications
Finishing Spec Analysis looking for oddities in roll sizes per customer/ship to location by specification
Resolve all Product Specs that had prelams vs finished structure info as different versions – Change Mgmt through Radius
Capture accurate market, equipment, and regulatory data into existing specs
Remove spec duplicates (raw materials and also product specs)
Harmonize the specifications across all Centers of Excellence
Improve the Specification Creation Process
Standard test lists
Standard MFG instructions
Procedure to analyze existing data when creating new specs
Establish specification process expectations for Pouches and Perf/Laser (storage, naming, etc)
Create and Manage a customer spec documentation process so expectations can be reviewed and documented for future considerations
Analyze “issues” that occur and put corrective measures in place with other department stakeholders
Work with Regulatory to ensure all compliance is validated and gaps are closed – Identify when specifications with new requirements prompt the need for further migration testing
Implement and optimize ticket system or other request system for spec team requests
Other Duties and projects as assigned.