Senior Engineer, Promotional Packaging, L'Oréal Operations

Job Title: Senior Engineer – Packaging Promo

Division: LUXE Operations

Location: Clark, NJ

Reports To: AVP, Packaging Engineering (Skin)

Who We Are

For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted its energy, innovation, and scientific excellence solely to one business: Beauty. Our goal is to offer each and every person around the world the best of beauty in terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity and responsibility to satisfy all beauty needs and desires in their infinite diversity.

At L'Oréal Operations, we create innovative, inclusive, and sustainable beauty together with our business partners by designing, developing, sourcing, manufacturing, and distributing over 6 billion products globally every year. We support over 36 brands across four L’Oréal divisions. We are consumer-oriented, and we act responsibly all along the value chain.

Position Purpose

As a Senior Packaging Engineer for LUXE Promo, you will act as a key technical driver in the fast-paced and high-impact world of luxury promotional launches. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, you will engineer high-quality, sustainable, and cost-effective promotional and secondary packaging solutions while respecting the L’Oréal Conception Process. You will be actively collaborating with cross-functional partners, managing complex technical lifecycles, and bringing courageous, innovative solutions to life to support the growth and prestige of our LUXE brands.

Key Responsibilities

• Define, engineer, and optimize technical conceptions according to L’Oréal standards, ensuring they are highly cost-effective to execute by Assembly.
• Proactively evaluate technical and timeline risks, develop robust mitigation plans, and elevate blocking points to ensure on-time validations.
• Fully own technical milestones in project timelines to ensure on-time technical validation (including developing conceptions, approving dielines/artwork).
• Develop clear, comprehensive assembly and finished good instructions for 3rd party and contract manufacturers to ensure seamless production.
• Define and execute appropriate testing plans; analyze, interpret, and communicate results to stakeholders.
• Interface directly with Project Managers, Marketing, and Creative brand leads to influence package design options and champion technical feasibility.
• Drive alignment with external suppliers and contract manufacturers, ensuring adherence to L’Oréal’s rigorous quality and technical standards.
  
  

Required Qualifications

What We Are Looking For:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering with relevant internship
• Strong PC skills; MS Office, PowerPoint
• Good communication skills, to be able to deal effectively with all levels of the organization and our suppliers; experienced presentation skills with large and diverse audiences.
• Good organizational skills to manage the documentation, materials, and information.
• Ability to travel up to 25% to domestic and/or international suppliers and contract manufacturing plants.
• Works well under pressure and able to prioritize workload to meet timeline demands of projects.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years’ experience in package development desired preferably in the cosmetics, consumer goods or related field.
• Specification management experience (any system)
• Understanding of production & printing of secondary packaging (i.e. cartons, shrink labels etc.).
  
  

What’s In It For You

• Base Salary Range: $77,400- $93,775 (The actual compensation will depend on a variety of job-related factors which may include geographic location, work experience, education, and skill level)
• Competitive Benefit Package (Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, Pension Plan)
• Hybrid Work Policy (3 Days in Office, 2 Days Work from Home)
• Flexible Time Off (Paid Company Holidays, Paid Vacation, Vacation Buy Program, Volunteer Time, Summer Fridays & More!)
• Access to Company Perks (VIP Access to L’Oréal’s Internal Shop for Discounted Products, Monthly Mobile Allowance)
• Learning & Development Opportunities for Career Progression (Unlimited Access to E-learnings, Lunch & Learn Sessions, Mentorship Programs, & More!)
• Employee Resource Groups (Think Tanks and Innovation Squads)
• Access to Mental Health & Wellness Programs
  
  

Don’t meet every single requirement? At L'Oréal, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and innovative workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the qualifications listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways! You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!

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