Senior Structural Designer - Pratt Industries : Job Details

Senior Structural Designer As Senior Structural Designer at Pratt Industries - Cedar Hill, you will play a crucial role in supporting our Sales Representatives by designing custom structural and graphic packaging solutions. You'll be responsible for developing innovative packaging concepts, producing samples and prototypes, and ensuring quality and production feasibility. In this creative, fast-paced environment, your technical knowledge, attention to detail, and problem-solving skills will help deliver customer satisfaction and operational excellence. Give and Get What You'll Get:

• Insurance benefits and wellness reimbursement within one month
• Paid holidays from day one and 401(k) with match at 3 months
• Tuition reimbursement at one year
• Excellent benefits package including medical, dental, short-term disability, and HSA
• Paid childbearing/parental leave at one year
• Healthy Lifestyle program with up to $1,200 awarded annually to your HSA
• Employee Assistance Programs to support life at work and home
• Safety and PPE reimbursements
• Cell phone discount with 2 major providers
• Monthly incentive bonus if plant goals are met

What You'll Give:

• A commitment to delivering excellent customer service and upholding company values
• Strong leadership in training, coaching, and guiding customer service representatives
• Effective communication with internal departments and external customers
• Problem-solving initiative to support production schedules and resolve order or service-related challenges

Key Duties and Success Factors

• Safety & Compliance: Implement, maintain, and support all company policies and procedures, with a strong emphasis on safety and good housekeeping practices.
• Quality Assurance: Oversee the creation of packaging prototypes/samples to assist Sales Account Representatives in sales promotions, ensuring high quality and accuracy.
• Operational Efficiency: Formulate and communicate ideas for new accounts or products, analyzing customer needs and production feasibility. Create production specifications from prototypes, drawings, etc.
• Training & Development: Analyze changes in the industry and research innovations in packaging equipment; apply new developments and make recommendations for style/board weight updates.
• Reporting & Maintenance: Produce samples efficiently on a CAD table or by hand.
• Flexibility & Teamwork: Work individually or collaboratively with cross-functional teams and resources during research, ideation, evaluation, and validation stages of all design solutions. Accompany Sales Representatives on occasion to present new products or designs to customers or prospects. Responsible for meeting deadlines, which may require overtime.
• Technical Skills: Utilize proficient skills with ArtiosCAD, Kongsberg table, or similar tools to develop innovative and creative packaging solutions with a focus on manufacturability.

What You'll Need to be Successful

• Experience:
• Required: High school diploma or GED.
• Preferred: Bachelor's Degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Highly Preferred: 5+ years of experience in corrugated packaging or a related field; experience in a corrugated production/manufacturing facility; exposure to package testing and methodologies (UN/DOT, ISTA, etc.).
• Basic Troubleshooting: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; interpret a variety of technical instructions.
• Skills:
• Must be self-motivated with a strong work ethic and strong organizational skills.
• Proven ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, team environment.
• Flexible, fast learner, who can handle multiple projects, solve problems, and embrace challenges.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office.
• Good communication skills with customers and internal Sales/Production/Customer Service staff.
• TOPS Software experience is preferred.
• Physical Requirements: Ability to stand, sit, walk, push/pull, and lift/carry 10lbs-50lbs. Must successfully pass Company pre-employment screening.
• Work Environment: Must be able to work in a manufacturing environment if required, which can be noisy, dirty, dusty, and subject to hot and cold temperatures.
• Certifications: (No specific certifications listed in original, but space is provided if needed for future additions.)
• Personal Growth: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the public.

Take Action and Unbox your Potential - Next Steps: If you are ready to take the next step in your career and join a company that values growth and teamwork, apply today and help us continue to make Pratt Industries a leader in the Corrugating industry! Pratt Industries provides equal employment (and affirmative action) opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veterans status, or disability. Pratt Industries is America's 5th largest paper and packaging company with more than10,000 highly skilled green collar employees dedicated to the environment and sustainability. Pratt Industries is one of the largest corrugated packaging companies in America, with sophisticated manufacturing facilities in more than twenty states. The company operates several of the most modern, cost effective paper mills in the country, as well as a series of sheet and box plants strategically placed throughout the United States offering a wide range of creative packaging solutions. Pratt Industries is committed to recycling and the environment by harvesting the urban forest. Pratt Industries offers competitive compensation plans with incentive opportunities, full benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, All State, Pre-Paid Legal, and 401(k) with company match, paid vacation, paid holidays, and childbearing and parental leave. Pratt Industries is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - M/F/V/D