NPD Engineer

New Product Development (NPD) Engineer

As a New Product Development (NPD) Engineer, you will play a crucial role in driving the company's innovation and growth. Based in Kuantan Pahang (Plant: Cryovac Malaysia), this full-time position will allow you to contribute to the process development of products that cater to the needs of our diverse customer base.

What You'll Be Doing

• Responsible and carrying out the NPD projects as per scheduled timelines. Report progress periodically to the required team.
• To provide process support to the manufacturing group, enabling product/process development and manufacturing efficiency and quality improvement to be achieved
• Custodian of the SOCs setting process lines and initiating process improvement activities to ensure productivity and quality improvement
• Support Process Engineer in process troubleshooting to ensure smooth and efficient production.
• Responsible for new raw materials, product and process development and Introduction which includes process specification, upgrades, trial runs in stages, and equipment commissioning and tuning.
• Responsible for Production supplies technical and commercial evaluation and vendor qualification and development.
• Responsible for Process capital requirement justification & coordination, line capability & capacity, manufacturing cost etc.
• Provide technical & training support to both manufacturing and AP sales force
• Responsible for assisting with Quality Assurance tasks (coordinating quality complaints, CAPA, liaising with customers on the related technical issues, etc)

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor of Science/ Engineering/ Equivalent, majoring in Chemical Engineering, Plastics Science or equivalent. Good communication skills in spoken and written English
• Minimum 3 years of experience in a similar role within the manufacturing industry, plastic processing industry experience is a plus.
• Hands-on experience and knowledge in computers, exposure to PLC factory automation system is a plus.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify and resolve complex challenges
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams

Why Work at Sealed Air

We have a very diverse and inclusive culture. Our over 16K employees are located in over 56 countries and territories globally, representing a broad diversity of cultures, languages, ethnicities, genders, and races. We continuously strive to improve our workplace diversity in many ways and to understand and ultimately achieve a supportive, inclusive culture across the globe.

We are invested in developing our people. Sealed Air invests in the development of its people through a number of initiatives such as an online learning portal, role-specific technical skills training, management and leadership training, executive succession planning, tuition reimbursement benefits, and early career rotation programs.

We offer competitive compensation and benefits programs. We are committed to be externally competitive, internally equitable, and to differentiate rewards based on performance. We review our compensation and benefit programs around the world ensuring they offer market-competitive compensation and meaningful benefits. We believe that investing in our employees results in increased engagement, satisfaction, and retention, which in turn, supports the achievement of our business strategy to be a high-performing, world-class company.