Product Development Engineer Columbus, WI (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Rotogravure+Printing+and+Lamin+Columbus+WI+USA+53925) Description For over a century, American Packaging Corporation (APC) has been a leading flexible packaging converter for customers throughout North America. We nurture our employees by providing competitive salaries, excellent benefits, 401(k) plans and tuition reimbursement programs. These are just a few reasons why we were named a “Best of the Best” in the Best Workplaces in the Americas awards for 12 years in a row. APC’s longstanding success is fueled from the inside out, and we consistently seek to improve our internal operations to propel that success into the future. SUMMARY:A Technical Position reporting to the Technical Director. Primary responsibility is the development of new products of a complex nature, resolve customer issues (end use, quality, performance) while ensuring they can be successfully manufactured. Additional responsibilities are to provide professional and technical leadership toward successful project management of assigned projects, some of, which may be multi-divisional. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIESinclude the following: + Provide technical and professional leadership in resolving customer problems, resolving manufacturing problems, and overall project management of assigned projects. + Attend customer trials. + Interacting with customers, management, marketing, sales, and suppliers. + Participate in teams - product development, waste reduction, quality improvement, etc. + Be results oriented and responsible for those results in developing new products and processes in response to customer input, and/or assigned duties. + Ability to successfully interact with all levels - hourly to Operations Manager, customers, and suppliers. + Ability to handle multiple projects/demands. Must be accurate, detail oriented with excellent follow up and project management skills.. Requirements QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE Bachelor's degree (B. A.) in a Technical Field (Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry, etc.) from a four-year college or university; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Experience with printing and laminations for flexible packaging using materials such as papers, films, foils, and sealants is desired. LANGUAGE SKILLS Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public. MATHEMATICAL SKILLS Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis. REASONING ABILITY Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form. PHYSICAL DEMANDS The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision. WORK ENVIRONMENTWhile performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. American Packaging Corporation is committed to equal opportunity for all, without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic. American Packaging Corporation will make reasonable accommodations for known physical or mental limitations of otherwise qualified employees and applicants with disabilities unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If you are interested in applying for an employment opportunity and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply for a posted position, please contact our Human Resources department atAPC-Careers@americanpackaging.com.