Job Description:

• 1) Designs containers for products, such as foods, beverages, toiletries, cigarettes, and medicines: Confers with representatives of engineering, marketing, management, and other departments to determine packaging requirements and type of product market.

• 2) Sketches design of container for specific product, considering factors, such as convenience in handling and storing, distinctiveness for identification by consumer, and simplicity to minimize production costs.

• 3) Renders design, including exterior markings and labels, using paints and brushes.

• 4) Typically fabricates model in paper, wood, glass, plastic, or metal, depending on material to be used in package.

• 5) Makes changes or modifications required by approving authority.