# Principal Engineer - Packaging Equipment

Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you will provide technical leadership to identify and develop strategies and projects that deliver the highest value business benefit to the company. You will work with cross functional teams to review requirements and develop optimized technical solutions that fit business needs. This is a Corporate Engineering role supporting manufacturing operations through innovation, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives. A Taste of Your Responsibilities Identify, develop, rollout, and provide governance for key strategies and programs across the manufacturing platform Use subject matter expertise, third party engineering partners, and original equipment manufacturers to develop labor reducing and cost saving automation projects Stay current with industry regulations and codes related to packaging equipment system design and operations, and provide recommendations to improve programs, policies, and goals Provide technical and economic feasibility analysis to support business initiatives that deliver competitive advantages Develop Front End Loading packages that are complete, clear, and reflect due diligence to ensure project success, inclu

- **Id**: 4241625
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/conagrabrands-principal-engineer-packaging-equipment>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Locations**: Omaha, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-07T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-07
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T00:50:55Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 7
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5543
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Flexible schedule, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 1836335
- **Name**: Conagra Brands
- **Domain**: conagrabrands.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/conagrabrands-com>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Phenom

## Salary

- **Min**: 109000
- **Max**: 159000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 159000

## Technologies

- **PM2** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Node JS** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 7

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **Illinois** — Kind: city
- **Nebraska** — Kind: city
- **Colorado** — Kind: city

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T12:12:43Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 7
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T00:57:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 159000
- **Is top pay**: no

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