Package Development Engineer

Now Hiring a Package Development Engineer at our Brookfield, WI office.

What We Offer

• Compensation: Competitive salary based on experience, education, certifications, skills, and market conditions.
• Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability coverage.
• Retirement: 401k retirement savings plan with a dollarfordollar employer match up to 6 percent.
• Time Off: 15 paid vacation days plus 10 paid holidays.
• Perks: Pet insurance, wellness programs, online workouts, Teladoc telemedicine, and more.
• Growth: Tuition reimbursement, professional development, and continuing education.
• Recognition: Company celebrations, volunteer events, and holiday functions.
• SafetyFirst Environment: We prioritize safety through our Drive to Zero Injuries initiative.
• Sustainability Focus: We continuously reduce our carbon footprint through ecofriendly manufacturing and responsible material use.

What You'll Do

As a Package Development Engineer, you'll support metal packaging projects across the entire development cycle. This includes designing, validating, and improving physical products that end up in millions of hands every day.

Your responsibilities will include:

Project Leadership

• Manage multiple packaging development projects from concept through completion, ensuring timelines, budgets, and technical goals are met.
• Coordinate crossfunctional teams such as R&D, manufacturing, quality, operations, marketing, and suppliers.
• Drive project planning, scheduling, resource allocation, documentation, and communication.
• Apply structured risk management to minimize technical and commercial risks.

• Travel where your projects are taking place, expect up to 50% in year one; typically 30-40% thereafter.

Technical and Innovation Work

• Lead research, earlystage ideation, and feasibility activities for new metal food container concepts.
• Develop, test, and troubleshoot packaging designs with a handson mechanical and materials engineering approach.
• Create prototypes using internal and external resources; analyze performance and translate findings into actionable improvements.
• Support process enhancement, material innovation, and continuous improvement across Silgan's facilities.
• Conduct trials at manufacturing plants; refine package performance through testing, data analysis, and iteration.

What We Need You to Have

• A Bachelor's degree in a related technical field such as Packaging, Industrial, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering.
• Strong mechanical aptitude with interest in container design, testing, and commercialization.
• Proven experience leading complex projects, ideally with budgets over $1MM.
• Demonstrated ability to organize teams toward achieving technical goals.
• Excellent problemsolving skills and an ability to innovate with materials, processes, and packaging systems.
• Experience producing prototypes using internal and external resources.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to create technical reports, case studies, and presentations for internal and external partners.

Who We Are

• America's largest metal food packaging producer, dedicated to sustainability and innovation.
• Silgan Containers is rethinking how to make the metal food can through increased recycled content, modern process overhauls, renewable energy procurement, and other innovative practices.

This role is an excellent match for candidates who love both technical problemsolving and organizing people toward a shared outcome. If you're a highly effective project leader with a technical mindset, we'd love to meet you.

Apply now to join our team in Brookfield, WI, and help shape the future of packaging.

LIMITATIONS AND DISCLAIMER

The above job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed; it is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required for the position.

All job requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health and safety of themselves or other employees.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform other job-related duties requested by their supervisor in compliance with Federal and State Laws.

Requirements are representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills and/or abilities. To perform this job successfully, the employee must possess the abilities or aptitudes to perform each duty proficiently. Continued employment remains on an "at-will" basis.

Silgan is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, or the presence of a disability, which would not prevent the performance of essential job duties with, or without reasonable accommodation of any other protective status.

Silgan is a drug-free workplace.