Corporate Engineering Development Program

Launch Your Engineering Career with Reynolds Consumer Products

Corporate Engineering Development Program 2027

Chicagoland area based Engineering Rotational Program

Build Whats Next. Start Your Career Making an Impact.

Calling all December 2026 and May 2027 engineering graduates!

Youve spent years building your engineering knowledge. Now its time to put it to work.

Anticipated program start: Summer 2027

Join Reynolds Consumer Products and begin your career with a company behind some of the most recognized consumer products in the marketplace. Through our Engineering Development Program youll gain hands-on manufacturing experience solve meaningful engineering challenges and build the technical professional and leadership capabilities needed to accelerate your career.

Your Opportunity

The Corporate Engineering Development Program is designed for graduates earning a bachelors or masters degree in Industrial Engineering Manufacturing Engineering Mechanical Engineering Electrical Engineering Chemical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.

Over the course of this two-year rotational program you will complete four six-month assignments designed to broaden your engineering knowledge and expose you to multiple manufacturing processes engineering functions and plant environments.

From your first rotation youll be part of the action. You will work alongside experienced engineers and manufacturing leaders while developing practical solutions to real operational challenges.

During the program you will have opportunities to:

• Troubleshoot equipment processes and production challenges.
• Support engineering projects involving automation research and development quality control and equipment reliability.
• Collaborate with engineering operations maintenance quality and other cross-functional partners.

You will have the opportunity to Make Great Things Happen!

• Apply Reynolds Business System (RBS) principles through Kaizen events value stream mapping standard work and visual management to eliminate waste and improve processes.
• Use A3 thinking and structured problem solving to define problems validate root causes implement countermeasures and sustain improvements.
• Own a business improvement project in each rotation with defined objectives timelines budgets and measurable results. Present outcomes and lessons learned to plant and program leadership.
• Analyze operational data and KPIs to prioritize opportunities and improve safety quality delivery cost productivity reliability and equipment performance.
• Apply industrial engineering principles and analytical methods to improve process flow capacity labor productivity material flow standard work ergonomics manufacturing cost and overall operational performance.
• Deliver rotation objectives safely on schedule within budget and against established performance measures.
• Partner with operators and technicians to understand shop-floor challenges develop practical improvements and support adoption of standard work.
• Apply manufacturing performance metrics including Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) downtime speed loss and scrap to identify prioritize and eliminate operational losses.
• Leverage digital manufacturing technologies to analyze real-time production performance support daily management and drive continuous improvement.

How Youll Develop

Build technical professional and leadership capability through formal training hands-on assignments daily coaching and mentoring. Each rotation includes defined learning objectives ongoing feedback and structured reviews with program and functional leaders. Mentors help you build an internal network and clarify your long-term career interests.

You Will Love It Here If

• You listen learn and evolve
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment
• You put safety first always
• You are passionate about collaboration teamwork and achieving shared goals
• You believe in treating all people with respect operating ethically and growing a diverse equitable and inclusive workplace
• You are committed to improving our impact on local communities and creating positive experiences

Education/Experience

Required

• BS degree in Engineering completed by June of next year.

Candidates must be eligible to work in the U.S. without current or future sponsorship from Reynolds Consumer Products.

Preferred

• BS degree in Mechanical Electrical Industrial or Chemical Engineering completed by June next year.
• Engineering internship co-op research laboratory or manufacturing experience.
• Exposure to automation controls quality continuous improvement reliability maintenance process engineering or project management.
• Experience leading a student organization team project competition volunteer initiative or campus activity.
• A passion for consumer products and making manufacturing processes safer smarter and more efficient.
• Exposure to data analysis to identify improvement opportunities and translate findings into clear actionable recommendations. Familiarity with statistical methods and tools such as Minitab Power BI or similar applications is a plus.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Strong academic and applied problem-solving capabilities.
• Effective written verbal and presentation skills.
• The ability to collaborate and contribute within a team environment.
• Curiosity adaptability and a demonstrated ability to learn.
• Willingness and ability to complete rotational assignments at multiple U.S. manufacturing locations.
• Eligibility to work in the United States without current or future employment sponsorship from Reynolds Consumer Products.

Youll Thrive Here If You Live Our Most Valuable Behaviors

• Intellectual Curiosity: Explore new concepts and be open to different perspectives.
• Problem Solving: Proactively identify issues and find innovative solutions.
• Entrepreneurship: Take ownership and navigate challenges creatively to deliver results.
• Customer Centricity: Know the customer and make them the forefront of the decision.
• Growth Mindset: Persevere and take calculated risks with a focus on progress not perfection.
• Continuous Improvement: Relentlessly pursue improvement and never be satisfied with the status quo.

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RCP affords equal employment opportunities to applicants without regard to race color religion age disability status sex marital status protected veteran status pregnancy national origin genetics genetic information parental status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law. RCP conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations.