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Trove Brands is a privately-held house of brands including BlenderBottle®, Owala®, Whiskware®, and Eco-Brite®. Our patented and best-selling products are designed to simplify and improve everyday life with leading-edge innovation, incomparable quality, and aspirational style.

A career at Trove Brands is not about punching the clock. It’s about embracing exciting and fast-paced opportunities that sharpen your skills, drive innovation, and play an integral role in growing our global reach. Your work will not only impact the company, it will impact the lives of millions of people around the world. When you step up to a career at Trove, you step up to cutting-edge excellence. You sign up for bold action and invigorating synergy. You agree to face—and break through—new challenges every single day.

The Packaging Engineer reports to the VP of Engineering with strong functional partnership across Industrial Design, Marketing, Regulatory, Supply Chain, and International Sales. This role owns the technical structure, performance, and compliance of packaging across the product portfolio. You will be responsible for packaging architecture, materials, specifications, testing, labeling requirements, and global compliance. You will work directly with internal teams and external manufacturing partners to ensure packaging solutions are robust, scalable, compliant, and optimized for domestic and international distribution.

Key Responsibilities:

Every role at Trove Brands is critical to our collective success. Your specific responsibilities as a Packaging Engineer will include:

• Define, develop, and own structural packaging solutions across primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging
• Create and maintain engineering drawings, specifications, and documentation for all packaging components
• Partner directly with factories and OEM packaging teams to develop, validate, and implement packaging solutions at scale
• Ensure packaging designs are manufacturable, repeatable, and aligned with factory capabilities and constraints
• Lead and execute shipping and distribution testing, including drop, compression, vibration, and environmental testing, to validate packaging performance
• Own packaging performance across all shipping modes including parcel, LTL, FTL, and international freight
• Maintain solid understanding of case sizes, weights, palletization, and cube efficiency for domestic and international programs
• Ensure packaging meets all shipping regulations, carrier requirements, and regional labeling standards.
• Understand retailer requirements and standard processes, update packaging to ensure compliance and smooth execution at retail.
• Own technical specifications for labels, adhesives, tapes, and application methods
• Collaborate with Regulatory and International Sales teams on regional labeling requirements and market specific packaging needs
• Partner with Industrial Design and Marketing to ensure approved consumer packaging concepts and brand requirements translate into structurally sound, compliant, and manufacturable packaging solutions
• Work with Supply Chain and Operations to optimize packaging for cost, durability, sustainability, and throughput
• Develop and maintain packaging test protocols, specification libraries, and documentation within PLM or related systems
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on packaging performance, cost reduction, damage reduction, and compliance

Required Qualifications:

We are looking for a technically strong, detail-oriented engineer who is comfortable working across disciplines and geographies:

• Bachelor’s degree in Packaging Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Industrial Engineering, or related technical field
• 3 to 7 years of experience in packaging engineering, materials engineering, or a related role within consumer or durable goods
• Strong understanding of packaging materials, structural design, and distribution environments
• Hands on experience with packaging validation and shipping test methodologies
• Experience working directly with overseas manufacturing partners and OEM suppliers
• Working knowledge of domestic and international shipping regulations and labeling requirements
• Proficiency with CAD tools and engineering documentation systems
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering, design, operations, and commercial teams

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working within PLM, ERP, or specification management systems is a plus

Our culture is passionate, entrepreneurial, and energetic. We value innovation through collaboration. And while we work smart and hard, we also connect and celebrate with equal gusto. We host team-building activities, athletic events, and seasonal celebrations to foster community and reward accomplishments. Bottom line? You’ll love it here.

Among the many benefits our team members enjoy are:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision care
• 401k package with employer matching
• Paid Time Off
• Maternity/Paternity leave
• Full indoor basketball/volleyball court
• Fully equipped fitness center (cardio, weights, functional fitness area, lockers and showers, etc.)
• Meditation/Nap room
• And much more!

Trove Brands is an equal opportunity employer.

Phone calls regarding this position are not accepted.

This is a fully in-office position at our HQ in Lehi, Utah.