Principal Engineer, Packaging Details

Principal Engineer, Packaging

Impossible Foods - Redwood City, CA

Employment Type : Full-Time

Impossible Foods is addressing the most catastrophic threats facing humanity: climate change and biodiversity collapse. A global transition to a plant-based food system will turn back the clock on atmospheric CO2 levels, restore natural ecosystems and reverse meltdown in wildlife biomass.
The easiest - if not only - way to make our civilization sustainable is to eliminate livestock, the most dangerous technology on Earth. But humans won’t give up meat. So we need to make meat better - more delicious and more nutritious, without animals as the underlying production technology. That means that making meat sustainably is the most important and urgent problem for the global scientific community.
Impossible Foods' mission is to completely replace the use of animals as a food-production technology by offering consumers everything they currently value about animal products - and making products that are vastly superior to their animal analogues.
To do this, we are taking a revolutionary scientific and market-based approach. We are inventing efficient, sustainable ways to transform ingredients from plants into meat, fish and dairy foods that deliver all the pleasures and nutritional benefits consumers demand, without the destructive environmental or public health impact.
Our world-class R&D team has been building the know-how and technology platform to produce meat, fish and dairy foods from plants. Impossible Foods is experiencing rapid growth and is resolutely committed to leading all aspects of the plant-based food revolution—from discovery to commercial production. The only thing that will separate Impossible Foods from success and failure is our ability to recruit more world-class experts.

Want to join? Check out the job opening and requirements below:
Serve as a technical expert for all of Impossible Foods packaging including discovery, design, piloting, and commercial implementation of all packaging systems You Will

• Lead packaging related new product development and commercialization projects
• Work closely with Manufacturing plants for execution of trials, new equipment selection and commissioning, and process optimizations.
• Optimize current packaging design, materials, and processes for factors such as cost, sustainability, customer usability, and ease of manufacture.
• Design, plan and execute experiments for bench top, pilot plant, and manufacturing scale trials.
• Gather and analyze data, document and report results, and make recommendations based on findings.
• Work with material and equipment vendors to solve technical problems and identify new packaging technologies.
• Partner with cross functional teams to develop new packages with sound structure, function, and messaging relationships.
• Develop prototypes to be used for consumer testing, product explorations, and internal presentations.
• Develop, review and update packaging specifications.
• This position may manage people. Mentoring and coaching all junior team members on both technical approaches and soft skills is expected.
• Some travel required.
• Other duties as assigned.

You Have

• BS or higher degree in Packaging, Industrial Engineering, or a related field
• 12+ years of experience in frozen foods package design and execution for consumer food products.
• Broad and deep knowledge of packaging materials and equipment including flexible films, rigid plastics, paper, and corrugated.

Impossible Foods Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.