Company Overview

Griffith Foods is a family business founded in 1919, headquartered in Alsip, Illinois. As a product development partner, the company focuses on innovative, sustainable solutions that meet evolving consumer needs while sustaining the planet.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

- Lead the end‑to‑end development, validation, and implementation of new packaging solutions for finished goods, ensuring alignment with customer requirements, manufacturing capabilities, quality standards, and business objectives.
- Drive packaging innovation and continuous improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities with raw material and packaging suppliers to optimize cost, sustainability, efficiency, and material handling while maintaining product integrity and performance.
- Manage packaging development projects through established project management methodologies, ensuring adherence to timelines, milestones, resource requirements, and successful project execution.
- Establish and maintain packaging specifications for purchasing and operation procedures that ensure compliance with regulatory, customer, quality, and supply chain requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
- Provide technical leadership during new product and packaging trials, validating packaging performance, manufacturability, and suitability for commercial implementation.
- Design,



coordinate, and analyze packaging trials and performance testing under a variety of operational, transportation, and storage conditions to mitigate risks and ensure product protection.
- Develop and manage strategic relationships with packaging and raw material suppliers, leveraging technical expertise and market insights to support innovation and business growth.
- Serve as the primary packaging subject matter expert, collaborating with cross‑functional teams, customers, suppliers, and manufacturing sites to resolve technical challenges and deliver packaging solutions that support organizational objectives.
- Influence packaging‑related decisions by providing technical recommendations, risk assessments, and cost‑benefit analyses to stakeholders across the organization.

Knowledge and Experience

- Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering or a related field.
- At least 10 years of experience in food packaging, preferably in a B2B environment.
- Knowledge of operation and production areas and facilities.
- Experience with print production and understanding of file setup and printing parameters.
- Proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel.
- Advanced written and verbal English skills.

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📌 R&D Packaging Sr. Technologist (Monterrey)
🏢 CO4300 Griffith Foods, S.A. DE
📍 Monterrey