EMEA Sr Packaging Engineer
Urbint
Itron is innovating new ways for utilities and cities to manage energy and water. We create a more resourceful world to protect essential resources for today and tomorrow. Join us.
Join us at a pivotal moment where innovation meets sustainability. As a Senior Packaging Engineer, you won’t just design packaging: you’ll shape how products move across Europe in a world of rapidly evolving environmental expectations. This new role is your opportunity to build something from the ground up, driving smarter, leaner, and greener packaging solutions across the EMEA region.
You’ll be the expert who brings clarity to complexity: optimizing packaging for PCBA and finished goods, ensuring compliance with new EU regulations, and championing reusable solutions that support our long-term circularity goals. Embedded in high-impact programs (both New Product Introduction (NPI) and sustaining engineering) you will collaborate across functions, influence decision-making, and bring fresh thinking where it’s urgently needed.
Responsibilities
Design & Development
- Develop and optimize packaging solutions for PCBA and finished goods within EMEA.
- Ensure packaging designs comply with evolving European environmental regulations and sustainability standards while drive simplification.
- Create and update technical documentation, specifications, and test protocols.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Be part of NPI teams, contributing to early design and industrialization discussions. Influence decisions across diverse teams, ensuring packaging considerations are integrated early and effectively.
- Collaborate with sustaining engineering teams to improve existing packaging performance and reduce cost.
- Work closely with manufacturing sites, supply chain, quality, external partners, and suppliers.
Operational & Regulatory Excellence
- Stay current on new European regulations related to environmental impact, reuse systems, recyclability, and waste management.
- Ensure packaging systems are optimized for logistics, factory handling, and durability across multiple touchpoints.
- Partner with external packaging vendors and manage the currently semi-outsourced packaging design activities.
On-Site & Field Activities
- Travel to and work on factory floors as needed to validate packaging performance and gather operational insights.
- Conduct packaging tests (drop, vibration, climatic exposure, etc.).
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related field.
- Experience with packaging design software.
- Deep expertise in EU environmental and packaging regulations, manufacturing quality norms and standards (ISO, EN, and other regulatory frameworks), and the ability to apply them effectively in operational and manufacturing environments.
- Knowledge of materials science and packaging test methodologies.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and project management skills.
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and external suppliers.
- Fluency in English; French / German / Italian are a plus.
This role is open across several EMEA locations and offers a hybrid work model combining onsite presence, remote work, and travel to manufacturing sites.
Itron is committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce and providing an authentic workplace experience for all employees. If you are excited about this role but your past experiences don't perfectly align with every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway. In the end, you may be just who we are looking for!
The successful candidate's starting wage will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills and experience.
Itron is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you require an accommodation to apply, please contact a recruiting representative at 1-800-635-5461 or email Accessibility@itron.com.
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