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Product Technology Engineer

Sealed Air
United States, South Carolina, Simpsonville
803 N Maple St (Show on map)
Aug 07, 2026
Job Description Product Technology Engineer Simpsonville Requisition ID: 56142 If you are a current employee click here to apply. Sealed Air designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient. We strive to foster a caring, high-performance growth culture that will deliver consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerate our performance - a culture where accountability is clear and aligned, and where we reward business outcomes and impact. That culture guides everything we do, including how we partner with our customers and suppliers, how we attract and retain top talent, and how we create and deliver value to our stakeholders. In 2025, Sealed Air generated $5.4 billion in sales and has approximately 16,100 employees who serve customers in 119 countries/territories. To learn more, visit www.sealedair.com. Job Summary: What will you do as a Product Technology Engineer at Sealed Air? As a Product Technology Engineer, you will play a key role in improving manufacturing processes and delivering innovative, high-quality products to our customers. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams-including R&D, Operations, Commercial, and Manufacturing-to develop new processes, optimize existing ones, qualify new raw materials, drive cost and quality improvements, and support the commercialization of new products. Your expertise will help enhance operational efficiency, profitability, and customer satisfaction while supporting extrusion, printing, and converting technologies. This includes design and development of new processes, modifications of existing processes, raw material replacements efforts, product line extensions, cost improvement initiatives, and quality improvement projects. Responsibilities: Why do we need you? Develop and implement improved manufacturing methods to deliver high-quality products to customers. Lead the qualification of alternative resins and raw materials to support cost savings, supply continuity, and obsolescence management. Drive product line extensions and partner with R&D to commercialize innovative products. Collaborate with customers, R&D, Business Leaders, and Engineering teams to resolve quality issues and identify value-added product opportunities. Lead cost reduction initiatives and identify opportunities to improve operational profitability. Serve as the technical lead for quality improvement projects and manufacturing troubleshooting using data-driven decision-making. Stay current on advancements in plastics extrusion and web converting technologies while sharing best practices across manufacturing sites. Manage cross-functional projects involving multiple plants and manufacturing areas to achieve business objectives. Qualifications: What do you need to be successful? Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, or Chemical Engineering. Experience with manufacturing processes such as extrusion, printing, laminating, web converting, and pouch/bag manufacturing. Knowledge of statistical analysis tools and techniques. Project management skills across multiple manufacturing sites and business functions. Experience in process engineering or product development. Familiarity with Design of Experiments (DOE), Lean Six Sigma, SPC, or similar methodologies (preferred). Strong written, verbal, presentation, and negotiation skills. Ability to work independently in a matrix organization with a proactive, self-driven approach. Willingness to travel up to 20%. Requisition id:56142 Relocation:Yes Sealed Air is committed to attracting, selecting, and developing talent that reflects the diversity of the communities and customers we serve. We take pride in our selection process to identify, infuse, and grow talent to align with our culture, values, and norms. Sealed Air prioritizes talent development, fostering a culture of continuous growth and career progression. The company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and to all employees, without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, protected disability, veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Please be cautious of fraudulent recruiting efforts using the Sealed Air name or logo. Sealed Air will never request private information during the application process, such as a Driver's License or Social Security Number. If you have any concerns about information received from SEE during the application process, please reach out to us directly at globalta@sealedair.com. LINK1 MON1 Information at a Glance WHY WORK AT SEALED AIR?* It is our responsibility to leverage what we have to affect positive and meaningful change for our communities and planet using Sealed Air's global resources and expertise. Corporate sustainability - it's about improving the lives of people around the world by addressing pressing needs in the communities where we and our customers operate. Customer Success - meeting our customers' needs. At Sealed Air it's more than a goal, it's an integral part of our business practices, our innovative solutions, and our values. Leaving our communities better than we found them through dedication of time, talent and resources.