Manager – Packaging Design

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $118k - $138k / year

⏰ Full Time

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✍️ Designer

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Founded 2022

🍽️ Food & Beverage

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📦 Logistics

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Circular Action Alliance is a nonprofit, producer-led Producer Responsibility Organization (PRO) that coordinates and implements extended producer responsibility (EPR) and stewardship programs for paper and packaging across multiple U. S. states. CAA provides harmonized compliance services, producer registration and reporting, program administration, and stakeholder engagement to advance an efficient, effective circular economy for packaging materials.

📋 Description

• Contribute to overarching packaging design strategy • Develop tools, guidance, and resources to help producers integrate eco-design principles into packaging solutions • Prepare technical regulatory submissions, including comments on proposed regulations, exemption requests, and appeals • Engage producers, industry, and end markets to explain EPR law impacts and motivate change, including through webinars • Contribute to CAA’s design-driven eco-modulation strategy and broader materials strategies for reduction, reuse, recyclability, and compostability • Engage producers, converters, reclaimers, and other stakeholders to understand system needs and inform design solutions • Develop resources translating regulatory and materials-management objectives into practical packaging design actions • Provide technical input into state-level program plans • Monitor and evaluate packaging design standards, trends, innovations, and best practices • Support material reduction, reuse, recycling, and composting strategies • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate packaging design into materials management, recycling, and stewardship strategies • Contribute to eco-design tools, including eco-modulated bonus and malus incentive mechanisms • Engage packaging designers, producers, and industry stakeholders to promote eco-design best practices • Perform other job-related duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Materials Science, Materials Engineering, or equivalent experience • 5+ years of experience in sustainable packaging, material design and engineering, material strategy, or circular economy roles • Strong understanding of packaging design’s role in environmental outcomes and efficient recycling systems • Strong understanding of producer performance requirements for product packaging, including product protection, shelf life, branding, marketing, and merchandising • Experience developing and implementing packaging sustainability solutions focused on recyclability, source reduction, reuse, material transitions, and circular economy outcomes • Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and external stakeholders, including packaging designers, producers, and recyclers • Robust knowledge of packaging materials, covered material categories, and chemicals of concern • Understanding of recycling systems and end-market considerations, with ability to translate technical requirements into practical design guidance • Familiarity with industry eco-design standards and emerging sustainability trends • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills • Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail

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