Packaging engineer

Packaging engineers design the packaging that protects products through manufacture, shipping, and shelf life. The work combines structural and materials design with simulation, balancing protection, cost, sustainability, and manufacturability, and coordinating with manufacturing on tooling and supply-chain realities.

They work for consumer-goods, food, electronics, and logistics companies. The role suits practical engineers who enjoy a fast iteration cycle and the constraint-juggling of designing packaging that performs, looks right, costs little, and increasingly minimises waste.