Packaging Engineer

The Wine Group is seeking a Packaging Engineer in Ripon, CA, responsible for managing packaging material performance, ensuring product safety, quality, and efficiency. Key duties include developing quality control measures, conducting audits, and collaborating with various teams and suppliers. The role emphasizes communication, leadership, and adherence to safety protocols while supporting sustainable practices in wine production.
Position: Packaging Engineer 1 - Ripon

The Wine Group, Ripon, California, United States of America
Job Description

Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM

An industry leader, The Wine Group is one of the world’s foremost producers of award-winning wines across more than 60 wine brands and many winery facilities in California, New York, and Australia. Headquartered in Livermore, California, TWG is an industry innovator when it comes to developing, marketing, and selling wine brands beloved by consumers around the world, including Cupcake, Franzia, Benziger, Imagery, Tribute, 7 Deadly, Cooper & Thief, The Dreaming Tree, Charles Smith Wines, and more.

The Wine Group believes in producing wine using sustainable and earth-friendly practices to foster healthy land and agriculture for generations to come. The company demonstrates environmental stewardship through its commitment to clean energy and by ensuring that all its owned vineyards are certified sustainable or biodynamic. To learn more, please visit:

JOB SUMMARY

The Quality Packaging Engineer takes on higher-level responsibilities in managing packaging material performance by designing, testing, and ensuring packaging material meets the necessary standards and requirements for product safety, quality, and efficiency. Responsibilities include the development and implementation of quality control measures, the examination of packaging materials to guarantee they meet specifications, and the timely identification and resolution of packaging issues.

Ultimately, the role of the Packaging Quality Engineer is to assure the production of high-quality, well-packaged products that meet customer satisfaction and industry standards.

The Quality Packaging Engineer will effectively communicate and collaborate with the many functional areas within TWG, as well as across facilities, and as appropriate, with outside suppliers/vendors, customers, co-packers, and regulatory bodies.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
• Actively commit to and participate in our lab and corporate safety programs, including following all safety protocols and procedures.
• Effectively communicate and collaborate with colleagues within the team, the facility, and across all functional areas the lab interacts with.
• Perform process audits, compliance verification, and/or package quality assessments.
• Assist in identifying and resolving issues and/or taking appropriate action on sanitation issues and non-conforming product or material issues as directed.
• Support and participate in TWG’s company values of;
Be a Steward, See Possibility, Find a Way, and Stay Grounded.
• Support and participate in TWG’s Food Safety Culture to help with training, communication, employee feedback and participation, and performance measurement of the Food Safety Management System.
• Exhibit leadership, initiative, strong critical thinking skills and effective time management with the ability to manage projects/processes from start through completion.
• Provide technical support to QA and Bottling team members to resolve day-to-day packaging material challenges.
• Collaborate with QA technicians, Bottling Production and management teams during packaging material performance investigations.
• Review PMRNs from team members to verify and validate information assuring PMRN accuracy and quality.
• Work with suppliers to drive appropriate corrective/preventative action responses of defective packaging material.
• Work with the Test Plan process - write test plans in a methodical manner, communicate test plan responsibilities with cross-functional teams.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop packaging prototypes and qualify new and improved packaging material for performance.
• Design packaging solutions that meet product and shipping requirements and comply with regulations.
• Maintain packaging-related documentation and records in an organized manner.
• Manage packaging projects in a timely and successful completion.
• Lead internal meetings to review current Test Plans and open PMRNs.

QUALIFICATIONS
• Must be 21 or older at the time of hire.
• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific discipline.
• Minimum 5 years in packaging – food, beverage, alcohol, or wine industries.
• Experience with managing shelf-life…