Senior Packaging Engineer & Sustainability Lead

Help shape the future of food packaging at one of the fastest-growing brands in refrigerated and frozen foods. Kevin's Natural Foods is seeking a strategic and technically skilled Senior Packaging Engineer to lead packaging innovation, sustainability, commercialization, and compliance across our growing portfolio. This is an opportunity to influence everything from next-generation packaging technologies and consumer experience to automation strategy and enterprise sustainability roadmaps. Working across Operations, R&D, Quality, Procurement, and Mars Food & Nutrition, you'll turn bold product ideas into scalable packaging solutions that drive growth, reduce environmental impact, and strengthen operational performance. If you're passionate about solving complex challenges and building the future of packaging, we'd love to meet you! What You’ll Do: Packaging Strategy & Program Leadership - Own Kevin's packaging strategy and multi-year roadmap, balancing consumer experience, food safety, operational performance, sustainability, regulatory compliance, and total delivered cost. - Lead enterprise packaging initiatives across innovation, renovation, productivity, supply continuity, and sustainability programs. - Develop and execute Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) mitigation strategies, including regulatory assessments, fee reduction opportunities, packaging redesign initiatives, and compliance planning. - Serve as the packaging technical authority, influencing cross-functional decisions and guiding long-term packaging investments. Packaging Qualification & Validation Leadership - Design and govern the company's packaging qualification process, including standards, protocols, decision criteria, documentation requirements, and commercialization readiness reviews. - Develop risk-based qualification strategies for new materials, packaging formats, suppliers, equipment, and manufacturing processes. - Establish testing frameworks that evaluate package performance across p