Rob Handberg, Cpp Email & Phone Number

United States

Houlton, Wi

Primary technical solutions resource for North-American sales team. Diagnose and develop integrated packaging solutions for customers.

Provide engineering leadership and mentoring to seven enterprise manufacturing locations focused on windows and doors. Enhance processes and procedures, continually maximizing resources and balancing multiple priorities. Served as a project lead for large-scale packaging projects, following the DMAIC process. ➤ Identified over $300K in material and labor savings by standardizing packaging during the 2018 fiscal year.➤ Play a key role in identifying and advancing best practices across the enterprise. Simultaneously serve as the safety leader, ensuring alignment with all organizational objectives, goals, and standards.

Delivered visionary and strategic leadership for engineering, sales, and marketing in a retail packaging design consulting business. Partnered directly with customers to identify needs and provided company-based solutions. Successfully generated the retail portion of the business, building processes and procedures from the ground-up. During tenure, collaborated with team members to build the business from inception to $500M in annual sales.➤ Communicated directly with 80+ clients to assess packaging, processes, and systems, optimizing resources, focusing on SKU consolidation and cube reductions, improving sustainability, and maximizing ROI.➤ Led the entire lifecycle of retail packaging development, including design, rapid prototyping, full graphic mock-ups and documentation.

Managed projects and led teams in the development, testing, and implementation of innovative and optimized packaging designs that met or exceeded customer objectives. Delivered technical direction to ensure regulatory compliance with FDA and DOT standards. Coordinated global packaging platforms, provided new technologies to evaluate package integrity, managed strategic partners, and led improvement efforts for lab efficiencies.➤ Participated in gathering Voice of Customer feedback to ensure customer packaging expectations were met.➤ Implemented a new process for reviewing packaging specifications to ensure fit and function criterion were addressed prior to product launches. ➤ Developed an innovative solution for handling flexible pouches, resulting in the issuance of a patent.

Led a department of five packaging engineers to design and recommend cost-effective and protective packaging systems to ensure projects were completed on-time and within budget requirements. Led multiple client packaging audits identifying best practices and cost savings opportunities. ➤ Spearheaded a project that saved more than $7M for a key client in the food industry. ➤ Utilized Microsoft Project to develop, manage, and assign resources for 70+ engineering projects.➤ Used SolidWorks, AutoCAD, and TOPS to develop packaging specifications, drawings, and cube efficiencies.

Managed package development, testing, and evaluation of products consisting of single-use-cameras, film, and photo inkjet paper. Supported a full product range of Medical Dry View Hardware and Dry Recording Hardware and Film packaging. Maintained responsibility for new product scale-up and commercialization. Collaborated with raw material suppliers to develop returnable and reusable packaging.➤ Successfully reduced packaging materials, inventory, and labor costs by $800K.➤ Partnered with Information Technology Specialists to create a packaging database, using Matrix and SAP, for all specifications and packaging standards. ➤ Developed packaging standards for manufacturing and material specifications for purchasing using Adobe Illustrator and Ashlar Drawing Board.