About this role
Come see what’s cookin’ at HelloFresh!
At HelloFresh, we want to revolutionize the way we eat by making it more convenient and exciting
to cook meals from scratch. We have offices all over the world and we deliver delicious meals to millions of people.
We are the industry leader in meal-kit subscription services and we’re growing all the time. We have distinct meal-kit services that cater to everyone with the most menu variety in the market, which allows us to reach an incredibly wide population of people.
The HelloFresh team is diverse, high-performing, and international, and our work environment is an inspiring space where you can thrive as a result.
Job Description:
We’re hiring a Packaging Engineer II to join our world-class team here at HelloFresh. In this exciting role, you will support both the day-to-day operations and long-term strategy initiatives for the Packaging team. You should possess tremendous excitement and passion for playing a pivotal role in HelloFresh’s continuous pursuit to be the industry leader in the meal-kit space from a packaging perspective. To succeed in this role, you’ll need to have a genuine interest in providing solutions to practical packaging challenges, have advanced technical skills that you can apply to a fast-paced/dynamic environment, and a keen interest to make a big impact on a hyper-growth organization that is revolutionizing the food industry.
You will ...
• Responsible for development and maintenance of all packaging specifications including internal and external documentation
• Work cross functionally with ingredient strategy teams to engineer better primary packaging solutions for functionality and design
• Work with vendors and the Packaging Strategy team to test and qualify packaging designs to expand the Packaging supply chain to enable top-line box growth
• Manage the planning and execution of business critical packaging testing out of the Packaging Laboratory based in our Newark, NJ distribution center
• Test packaging components and modify as necessary to meet functional parameters, cost targets, fulfillment, and shipping requirements
• Help provide packaging solutions to HelloFresh’s innovative launch of new products, services offerings, and expansion into new categories and markets.
• Conduct technical and scientific tests to gain further insights into packaging strategies, packaging material(s) comparison, and various other ad-hoc packaging research & development projects.
• Conduct packaging optimization testing to support the development and commercialization of future packaging
• Complete and communicate test reports to Packaging Strategy and Engineering teams, as well as cross functionally
You are...
• Solutions oriented – You bring a problem-solving mentality and approach to all of your work, continuously
• Intellectually curious – You have an insatiable desire to understand how things wo