Structural Packaging Designer

Chase and Associates is partnering with a leader in custom packaging solutions to find a Structural Packaging Designer. This role bridges commercial objectives and operational performance, ensuring structural designs and tooling are practical, cost-effective, and fully executable on the manufacturing floor. What You’ll Do: Develop structural packaging concepts and production-ready designs for folding carton applications, ensuring manufacturability and cost efficiency. Own the tooling lifecycle—from specification and vendor coordination to validation and implementation on the production floor. Serve as a technical liaison between Commercial, Operations, Production, and external tooling partners, engaging with customers as needed to clarify design intent. Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Estimating, Operations, Purchasing, and Quality to support accurate quoting, reliable sourcing, and successful production launches. Provide production support to resolve design- or tooling-related challenges, improve runability, and reduce waste. Ensure documentation and tooling oversight support traceability, operational continuity, and continuous improvement. Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, enhance packaging performance, and drive cost control. What You Need: MUST HAVE: Experience in structural packaging design within a folding carton manufacturing environment. Proficiency in ArtiosCAD is required. Working knowledge of packaging materials, tooling development, and manufacturing processes. Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects in a production-driven environment with strong mechanical aptitude and practical problem-solving skills. Experience interacting with customers on design or functional requirements is a plus. Clear communication, cross-functional collaboration abilities, and a high level of accountability, organization, and follow-through. A production-oriented mindset—you understand that successful packaging design is defined by performance on the manufacturing floor as much as customer satisfaction.