Job Role Overview:
As a Packaging Engineer, the primary focus of this role is to work with suppliers during the PPAP stage to define, validate, and confirm suitable packaging solutions for production parts. The role will ensure packaging designs meet product protection, quality, logistics, cost, sustainability, and global plant requirements before serial production launch. This position requires close collaboration with Procurement, Supplier Quality, Engineering, and logistics teams across global AGCO plants to drive reliable, cost-effective, and standardized packaging solutions that support smooth inbound material flow and supply continuity.
Key Responsibilities:

Packaging Development and PPAP Support:

Work with suppliers during the PPAP stage to review, define, and confirm packaging concepts, ensuring the selected packaging is suitable for part protection, handling, storage, transportation, and global plant usage.
Validate packaging proposals together with Supplier Quality, Procurement, Engineering, and plant logistics teams,



ensuring packaging requirements are clearly documented and approved before production launch.
Develop and maintain packaging specifications, standards, and approval records, including packaging dimensions, material type, palletization, stackability, returnable or expendable packaging options, and special handling requirements.
Assess packaging reliability through practical reviews, trial shipments, damage feedback, handling risks, and plant receiving feedback, and drive corrective actions where packaging performance does not meet expectations.
Support supplier readiness by ensuring packaging solutions are feasible for supplier operations, compliant with AGCO requirements, and aligned with global logistics flows from supplier location to receiving plants.

Cross-functional Collaboration, Cost Saving, and Continuous Improvement:

Maintain close communication with Procurement to balance packaging cost, supplier capability, lead time, and comme

📌 Specialist III, Material Logistics and S&OP (Pune)
🏢 Agco
📍 Pune