Packaging Applications Engineer

Sealed Air designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient. We strive to foster a caring, high-performance growth culture that will deliver consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerate our performance – a culture where accountability is clear and aligned, and where we reward business outcomes and impact. That culture guides everything we do, including how we partner with our customers and suppliers, how we attract and retain top talent, and how we create and deliver value for our stakeholders. In 2025, Sealed Air generated $5.4 billion in sales and has approximately 16,100 employees who serve customers in 119 countries/territories

As a member of the EMEA R&D team, the Senior Application Expert is responsible for supporting the development of innovative products for the packaging industry, with a strong focus on understanding the interaction between packaging materials, customer packaging equipment, and the packaged product. The role involves close collaboration with both the R&D Process team and the R&D Analytical team.

The candidate will design and execute test plans, perform fitness-for-use evaluations, clearly communicate findings, and provide expert recommendations on the appropriate path forward to customers, internal teams, and key stakeholders.

In addition, the Senior Application Expert will collaborate with the equipment and materials teams, as well as Field Support, Sales, Customer Service, and Supply Chain, to ensure that existing products consistently meet Sealed Air’s high performance and quality standards.

• You are able to help develop, design and conduct trials that validate the reliability of the equipment, materials, and their interactions to provide the most robust solution to our customers.
• You are able to produce high quality results and provide technical documentation that enables data‑driven business decisions.
• You can propose and implement ideas that drive the enhancement of current product lines or the development of new products to drive increased profit based on a detailed understanding of materials, equipment, and customer operations.
• You make your contribution follow up the market introduction of newly released systems through field monitoring and support.
• You can manage projects to enable supply chain improvements to manufacturing processes and raw materials by quantifying the impact of these changes on the performance of the materials.
• You can help creating value propositions and competitive intelligence for Sealed Air’s development solutions driving credible project definition and scoping documents.
• You engage with sustainability experts with the aim of designing products compliant with the upcoming PPWR regulations.

• University degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Packaging Engineering/Science, Food/Meat Science, or related field experience with a minimum 2 to 4 years working in a packaging discipline. Equipment and automation experience or background are preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience creating data‑driven reports to communicate technical ideas.
• Experience managing multiple tasks, often with competing deadlines.
• Professional, highly‑motivated, reliable, and solution‑oriented. Autonomy, initiative, leadership, ability to adapt easily to new situations.
• Team player able to work effectively on projects with cross‑functional teams.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally is a must.
• Fluent in English is a must.

Sealed Air is committed to attracting, selecting, and developing talent that reflects the diversity of the communities and customers we serve. We take pride in our selection process to identify, infuse, and grow talent to align with our culture, values, and norms. Sealed Air prioritizes talent development, fostering a culture of continuous growth and career progression. The company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and to all employees, without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, protected disability, veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.