Sealed Air designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient. We strive to foster a caring, high-performance growth culture that will deliver consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerate our performance – a culture where accountability is clear and aligned, and where we reward business outcomes and impact. That culture guides everything we do, including how we partner with our customers and suppliers, how we attract and retain top talent, and how we create and deliver value to our stakeholders. In 2025, Sealed Air generated $5.4 billion in sales and has approximately 16,100 employees who serve customers in 119 countries/territories. To learn more, visitwww.sealedair.com .

Role Purpose

Sealed Air Australia is looking for an Application Developement Engineer This role will contribute to the ongoing growth of the Material & Equipment portfolios by ensuring our offer is maintained, developed and promoted.

Primary focus is fourfold:

- To support business development by managing the professional implementation of New Products and existing products across customer applications by conducting trials through the Design, Validation, Plan and Report (DVP&R;) process.
- To act as a technical resource for the Sales team to problem solve materials across customer Applications.
- To manage a consistent customer Audit process and the capture of data for customer feedback and measurement and reporting of industry best practice KPIs.




- To provide Training of Sales force and customers in the correct use of materials to optimize operational efficiency and product presentation.
- Some cross-functionality with other product line specialists is required to provide complete and varied packaging proposals as required.

Scope: Australia

What You'll Do

- Conduct and/or supervise customer on site trials to ensure positive outcomes
- Own and drive the use of the DVP&R; process and ensure customer Critical to Quality (CTQ) requirements are understood and met
- Conduct customer training on Sealed Air materials and their interaction with packaging equipment
- Provide accurate and timely reports on projects, applicatoin trials, packaging materials and systems
- Liaise with Sales, Marketing, Portfolio and Equipment groups as well as equipment suppliers to complete applications and development projects. Provide technical advice and support to equipment suppliers to optimize Sealed Air product performance
- Assist Market Managers & Portfolio Manager to train Sealed Air Personnel and customers on all aspects of the Sealed Air's product offer to protect and grow Sealed Air Market share.
- Develop relationships with Sealed Air customers at all levels, Management, Maintenance, Production, QA etc
- Technical Development - keep abreast of emerging and current technical development -i.e. competitors offer new equipment development and communicate within Sealed Air.




- Become familiar with other Portfolio products and look for opportunities for adoption to protect share - i.e Thermoform as an alternative to shrink.
- Identify opportunities for DMC reduction, margin improvement actions.
- Gather and share Competitive Intelligence (Market, Customer and Competitor)
- Sample Management and control - manage and vet sample requests to ensure fit for us materials for each market/application
- Rationalization and/or materials optimization in conjunction with Portfolio Manager
- Ensure New Product Introduction Process is defined and followed.

Knowledge / Experience / Person Profile We're Looking For

- A strong skill set in Manufacturing know how to assist with understanding processes
- A solid understanding of packaging materials and their applications
- Market expertise or a proven ability to quickly learn, to enable the identification of material attributes and customer needs.
- Effectively builds and maintains qualified relationships with customers and market experts.
- Able to collaborate for enhanced understanding, better decisions and optimal results. Maintain and build professional relationships with internal customers, stakeholders and international colleagues.
- Ability to work independently as well as thrive in a cooperative work environment while working confidently with all levels of management.
- Understanding and ability to follow safe work practices at all times.
- Functional/Technical Skills --Has the functional and technical knowledge and skills to do the job at a high level of accomplishment. Or has the demonstrated capability to learn those skills.
- Technical Learning - Picks up on te

📌 Application Development Engineer (Australia)
🏢 Sealed Air
📍 Australia