A professional who designs containers for products, such as foods, beverages, toiletries, cigarettes, and medicines. Responsibilities include:

• Confers with representatives of engineering, marketing, management, and other departments to determine packaging requirements and type of product market.
• 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.
• Renders design, including exterior markings and labels, using paints and brushes.
• Typically fabricates model in paper, wood, glass, plastic, or metal, depending on material to be used in package.
• Makes changes or modifications required by approving authority.