What You'll Do

As a Packaging Engineer in the Global Packaging Engineering team, you will be working in a dynamic environment to deliver protective product packaging that is sustainable, cost effective, and positively impacts the customer experience. You will work from Ciscos Lysaker office, where you find the Cisco Webex Development Center and our Collaboration business unit. This is where we develop solutions that help millions of people connect and collaborate from all over the world. Our products are used by small businesses & large corporations, universities, governments, and international organizations.

In the role some of your responsibilities will include:

• Working with internal and external partners to develop packaging solutions, which push the status quo for new and innovative ideas
• Engaging with supply chain and the business unit partners to influence product design and minimize overall cost of the product & package system
• Identifying & implementing package efficiency opportunities, such as improved cost and reduced waste from existing designs
• Understanding logistics drivers that may influence a design
• Documenting and communicating the impacts of design improvements
• Working with cross functional teams to root cause quality and shipping damage issues

Who You'll Work With

You will be part of the Global Packaging Engineering team within our Supply Chain Operations organization (Gartner #1 Supply Chain).

The focus of the position is leveraging internal and external partnerships to achieve an amazing customer experience and business results. You will interface with many business areas of both Supply Chain and Engineering groups.

You will partner with the Industrial Designers and Product Engineers adding valuable feedback on product design changes that will positively affect the packaging design, logistics and the customers out of box experience.

Who You Are

We highly value a curious mindset and a pragmatic approach to problem solving. You are committed to excellence and have a passion for making a difference. You can influence at various leadership levels for a win-win outcome and possess excellent communication and organizational skills. You have a commitment to teamwork and pushing the team and organization to success.

Possible backgrounds to be successful:

• A university degree in Packaging Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or other similar engineering disciplines
• Professional and/or educational experience in Industrial Design
• Minimum 5 years of working experience in a related discipline, packaging design, or industrial design for electronics industry
• Understanding of bill of materials (BOMs) structures and product lifecycle management
• Ability to successfully manage multiple projects concurrently
• Experience and competence in computer skills including Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, and Power Point) and 3D CAD (Solidworks preferred)

The position requires an understanding of product design and dynamics, industrial design, business management skills, packaging testing and an ability to create innovative packaging solutions.

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