SENIOR STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Company: MGA Entertainment
Location: Los Angeles
Posted on: September 29, 2024
Job Description:
CA EMPLOYEE PRIVACY RIGHTS:
https://www.mgae.com/ca-employee-privacy-rights
MGA Entertainment is one of the largest and fastest growing
privately held toy and entertainment companies in the world.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, and with offices globally, the
company creates innovative, proprietary, and licensed consumer
products and entertainment properties, including toys, games,
dolls, apparel, consumer electronics, home d--cor, stationery,
sporting goods, movies, and television series. The MGA family
includes award-winning brands such as L.O.L. Surprise!---, Little
Tikes -, Rainbow High---, Shadow High---, Bratz -, MGA's
Miniverse---, Fluffie Stuffiez--- , Na! Na! Na! Surprise---, Micro
Games of America---, Baby born - Surprise and Zapf Creation -. For
more information, please visit us at www.mgae.com or check us out
at LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
POSITION SUMMARY
Design, develop & test a variety of structural packaging to achieve
CSP (Cost, Schedule & Performance) per MGA standards, branding
objectives and project plan. Provide expert leadership to improve
the development & evaluation processes and to develop best
practices in the area of packaging creation. Provide technical
leadership in developing retail/consumer packages to support new
products, package improvements, package refreshes and cost
reduction.
Provide creative leadership that fosters use of cutting edge
technologies and innovative design approaches in structural
packaging solutions for consumer market.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Full cycle experience and knowledge of complete packaging
process. High familiarity with all materials and their respective
processes and costing
- Develop packaging structures using a variety of materials
including paperboard, corrugated material, and vacuum form
plastics, blister pack.
- Evaluate structural package designs for cost effectiveness,
considering material options, and manufacturability.
- Be abreast of new and emerging technologies in packaging
materials, treatments & processes.
- Sustain current package designs for improvements in quality and
cost.
- Work directly with each Designer in development of new package
designs.
- Develop, manage and sustain documentation of packaging (aka.
PDB-Packaging Development Brief) to ensure high-level accuracy in
what is communicated
- Perform preliminary package feasibilities to determine proper
package size, package style and affordability.
- General knowledge of graphic printing, associated equipment and
materials (inks, coatings, etc)
- Accountable for Cost, Schedule and Performance of the
designs
- Creative/innovative thinking towards solutions in designing a
variety of retail packages for best possible shelf appeal.
- Create package samples for a variety of uses:
- Evaluation and approval of size and style. Address perceived
value.
- Package comps for meetings
- Sales samples.
- Generate accurate and produce able die-lines for graphic
development.
- Document all packaging:
- Engineering Drawings: Stand alone drawing giving all
specifications required to produce a packaging component.
- BOM: List of all components required in a package at the
primary and secondary levels of packaging, including the quantity
of toys in each PDQ/Sidekick.
- Creation of PDB, which includes all of the above.
- Evaluate production samples to ensure material quality and
product placement are as specified.
- Produce schematic planograms for Sales which show the customer
how your products)will merchandize on their shelves. Planograms can
be made as simple line drawings and/or in color with scaled
graphics.
- Seek opportunities to cost-reduce existing packaging for
carry-over products while maintaining
perceived value. STANDARDOF CONDUCT
- Conduct all activities in compliance with applicable laws and
regulations. These Laws pertain to such areas as abuse, antitrust,
employment discrimination, environmental fraud, false claims,
lobbying and political activity, self-referral prohibitions and
tax.
- Promote the highest standards of business ethics and integrity.
Associates must represent our organization accurately and honestly,
and must not engage in any activity intended to defraud anyone of
money, property or services. Associates must act in good faith in
our organization's best interests.
- Maintain confidentiality, and protect confidential and
proprietary information about associates and our organization.
- Conduct activities and relationships with others so as to avoid
actual conflict of interest, in fact or even appearance. In the
event of conflicts, associates must make full disclosure and take
appropriate action under the company's Conflict of Interest
Policy.
- Conduct business transactions with suppliers, contractors,
vendors and other third parties at arm's length, and without offers
of or solicitations for gifts, favors or other improper
inducements.
- Exercise responsible stewardship to preserve and protect our
organization's assets by making prudent and effective use of its
resources.
- Ethics & Compliance
- Accept responsibility to adhere to company policies and
procedures.
- Develop and maintain an environment of respect and value.
- Communicate any legal or ethical violations or concerns to
appropriate personnel.
- Will not retaliate against any associate and will report
retaliation to appropriate personnel immediately. DEGREE OF
SUPERVISION
May supervise and coach Engineers.
EDUCATION/LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION
- BS in Packaging Engineering or related technical field required
or equivalent direct industry experience.
- Additional certification a plus MINIMUM EXPERIENCE
REQUIRED/PREFERRED
- Minimum of 6+ years experience in design & development of
retail packaging (preferably for high volume/high tech toy
products).
- Ability to design and document complex retail packaging systems
made from paperboards, corrugates and plastics.
- Expert knowledge of a variety of packaging materials including
paperboards, corrugate, plastics.
- Expert knowledge of packaging assembly process include manual
assembly, blister pack heat, RF and other methods of sealing/tamper
proofing retail packages.
- Complete knowledge of costs associated with different materials
used in package design.
- General knowledge of graphic printing, associated equipment and
materials (inks, coatings, etc).
- Ability to create complex package component drawings using
AutoCAD
- Ability to assess packaging material vendor capabilities to
meet MGA quality standards.
Ability to test package materials and final product per industry
standards.
- Good working knowledge of vacuum form tools and forming
equipment.
- Able to handle multiple projects simultaneously
- Proactive thinker and problem solver
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Able to deal with changing priorities
- Ability to finish a project on time
- Good follow through skills
- Detail oriented
- Positive and strong personality
- Good organizational skills
Salary:
$80,000.00 - $120,000.00 / yr
Keywords: MGA Entertainment, Los Angeles , SENIOR STRUCTURAL ENGINEER, Engineering , Los Angeles, California
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