Packaging Improvement Engineer

Daisy Brand

Casa Grande, AZ

Estimated pay: Est. $18–$27/hr (market estimate, not employer-stated)

**Position Summary**

The Packaging Improvement Engineer partners with cross-functional teams, equipment manufacturers, and packaging suppliers to improve packaging-system performance across the company. The role focuses on protecting product quality, food safety, and regulatory compliance while making packaging operations safer, more reliable, more consistent, and less wasteful. To support these improvements, the engineer establishes and improves packaging standards, converts operating data and field observations into practical solutions, and supports plants in resolving critical packaging and equipment issues. The position will be based at one of our four manufacturing facilities but will support all sites.

At Daisy Brand, we are committed to delivering high performing packaging solutions for our customers, and safe, experience enhancing solutions for our consumers. As a Packaging Improvement Engineer, you will play a critical role in shaping the future of packaging at Daisy Brand while working in a collaborative and growth-oriented environment. Join us to contribute to exciting projects and help us achieve our company's goals.

**Location and Travel Requirements**

Travel Requirements: Up to 25%

This position operates under a hybrid work model, requiring onsite presence Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, with Wednesday and Friday designated as remote workdays. While this schedule is typical, team or business needs may require additional onsite days.

Boone hires will initially work from a temporary office in Ames, IA, and have increased travel requirements until the new manufacturing plant in Boone, IA, opens, which is expected in 2028. Once construction is complete, the position will move onsite to the Boone plant.

**Key Responsibilities**

Lead Packaging Continuous Improvement Activities, Projects, and Processes by:

• Scheduling, coordinating, communicating, and verifying packaging improvement activities from problem definition through sustained results.
• Identifying and driving improvements in packaging equipment, materials, operating methods, changeovers, inspection systems, and sanitation.
• Leading initiatives to improve line efficiency, equipment reliability, throughput, and labor effectiveness while reducing packaging waste, giveaway, rework, downtime, and defects.
• Using structured problem-solving methods such as 6M, root-cause analysis, Pareto analysis, capability studies, statistical process control, and designed experiments.
• Developing business cases, expected benefits, trial plans, acceptance criteria, and post-implementation verification for improvement projects.
• Analyzing manufacturing and packaging data using Excel, Power BI, statistical software, historian/MES data, or visualization platforms to identify trends, quantify losses, determine root causes, and verify that improvements are sustained.

Lead Packaging Quality and Process Standardization by:

• Auditing packaging lines to verify that approved equipment settings, centerlines, materials, inspection methods, sanitation requirements, and operating procedures are being followed.
• Establishing and maintaining packaging standards for critical parameters such as fill accuracy, seal temperature, dwell time, pressure, cooling, package integrity, code quality, and package appearance.
• Partnering with plants, cross-functional teams, and vendors to design and execute controlled trials that resolve packaging unknowns, confirm repeatable solutions, and support data-based recommendations for equipment, material, parameter, or procedural changes.
• Driving adoption and sustainment of packaging improvements by engaging plant leadership, operators, maintenance, quality, sanitation, and engineering resources in the development, implementation, training, and ongoing verification of new standards.

Provide Technical Support and Capability Development by:

• Responding to critical packaging, product-quality, food-safety, and equipment-performance issues, including defects, complaints, excessive waste, downtime, and performance gaps, by supporting plants in investigating causes and implementing corrective actions that meet current targets and specifications.
• Collaborating with OEMs and material suppliers on equipment capability, packaging-material performance, specifications, testing, troubleshooting, and improvement opportunities.
• Identifying recurring equipment failure modes, evaluating mechanical condition and process capability, and partnering with Maintenance and OEM resources to eliminate chronic losses rather than repeatedly adjusting around equipment deficiencies.
• Creating practical technical documentation, including troubleshooting guides, centerline sheets, health checks, inspection standards, and training materials, that explains both the required standard and the engineering rationale behind it for operators, mechanics, engineers, and technical resources.
• Sharing proven methods and lessons learned across sites to accelerate s