Teams at Hood Packaging Corporation

Leads corporate research and development for the Plastics Division, coordinating product development, plant trials, customer qualifications, commercialization, raw-material approval, resin optimization, and cost-reduction initiatives. Provides technical support to customers, sales, procurement, and manufacturing teams; investigates quality and performance issues; supports corrective actions and laboratory capability evaluations. Maintains awareness of flexible-packaging technologies and contributes to strategic planning, process improvement, supplier collaboration, and technical customer or industry engagements.

Responsible for standard costing, variance analysis, inventory reconciliation, transfer pricing, job close procedures, financial reporting, budgeting, and cost-impact analysis for manufacturing operations. Maintains costing and inventory data integrity, supports month- and year-end close, assists with Controller and Payroll functions, and ensures compliance with HACCP, GMP, work instructions, and SQF requirements.

Provides technical support to manufacturing operations through continuous process improvement, cost reduction, safety enhancement, and plant efficiency initiatives. Leads Kaizen and Lean projects, troubleshoots production issues, performs root-cause analysis, standardizes processes, develops operating documentation, supports validations, justifies capital projects, and coordinates safety and quality initiatives. The role works closely with production, maintenance, quality, sales, and management in a packaging manufacturing plant.