Senior Packaging Engineer

Senior Packaging Engineer focuses on work with the rest of the packaging team to deliver the packaging solutions to achieve ambitious sustainability goals.

What the role involves

• Work with the rest of the Packaging team to deliver the packaging solutions to achieve ambitious sustainability goals.
• Leading high profile and complex packaging activities, with accountability for the execution of projects through to commercialisation, shaping and inputting personal initiative.
• Creating packaging prototypes and ensuring successful line trials, co-packer and co-manufacturing sites, ensuring the relevant documentation is produced and results are accurately.
• Creating packaging designs and specifications that deliver the desirable KQA’s via robust risk management and the delivery of shopper, customer and supply chain requirements.
• Ensure the effective technical delivery of activities and projects, ultimately delivering Innovation and Value Leadership.
• Delivering existing or new technology to deliver Innovation and Value Leadership.

Skills and requirements

• Use your advanced technical knowledge and experience, to develop and implement new packaging within a specified area of the portfolio and coaching and mentoring others as part of t.
• Degree level qualification in a relevant technical discipline (Packaging, Engineering sciences etc).
• Demonstrated knowledge of packaging materials, including flexibles, rigid plastic, cartons, and cases, including machine interaction.
• Experience working within Flexible teams, Agile ways of working.

Candidate fit

• Technical judgement, safe working habits, careful diagnostics, and practical problem-solving.

Additional role context

• Understanding of packaging sciences, packaging development, packaging legislation, food processing and production.
• Design Thinking approaches desirable.