Junior Packaging Technologist
TRIP
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Job summary
TRIP is seeking a detail-obsessed Junior Packaging Technologist to join our Notting Hill HQ. You’ll bridge artwork, repro and print production to move packaging from concept to print, coordinating with Packaging, Product Development, Quality and Creative teams.
You’ll ensure accuracy, technical compliance and timely delivery for launches and refreshes. You’ll help maintain colour management and consistency across substrates and markets while supporting new product introductions and packaging
Qualifications
- Strong foundation in packaging artwork, repro or print production.
- Familiarity with print quality checks and colour systems (CMYK/Pantone).
- Experience with multiple printing processes (digital, flexo, gravure, lithography).
- Understanding of dielines, cutter guides and die-cut formats.
- Knowledge of packaging formats (cans, cartons, wraps, labels, pouches, sachets, shrink sleeves).
- Awareness of production methods (digital vs large-scale; direct print vs sleeving).
- Understanding pre-press workflows and printer file preparation.
- Basic knowledge of packaging materials (laminates, mono-materials).
Responsibilities
- Manage and track packaging artwork across multiple live projects, keeping timelines, versions and approvals organised and up to date.
- Review artwork carefully at every stage, identifying issues before files reach production.
- Roll out approved designs accurately across different colours, substrates, sizes and markets.
- Prepare artwork for release to printers and suppliers, ensuring files meet the required technical specifications.
- Managing the relationship with key suppliers to ensure packaged files are delivered on time in full, to the TRIP brand and suppliers’ standards.
- Support colour management across packaging and help maintain consistency across different substrates, suppliers and production methods.
- Support ancillary product launches, led by Brand to execute ancillary product activation across drinks, supplements, powders and new formats.
- Management across packaging and help maintain consistency across different substrates, suppliers and production methods.
- Work confidently with dielines, cutter guides and print-ready artwork.
- Work closely with Packaging, Product Development, Quality, Regulatory, Creative and external suppliers to keep projects moving.
- Interpret stakeholder feedback and make accurate revisions quickly and efficiently.
- Maintain a clear audit trail of artwork changes, approvals and final files.
- Help us continuously improve the way we manage artwork, packaging processes and technical standards as TRIP grows.
Skills
Job description
Role: Junior Packaging Technologist
Location: TRIP HQ Notting Hill (4 days in office, 1 day work from home)
Reporting to: Packaging and Brand Experience Manager
TRIP's mission is to create calm in the everyday chaos for our community, offering next-generation wellness products that power people's lifestyles and nurture mental wellbeing.
Co-founders and husband-and-wife team Olivia and Daniel discovered plant-based wellness after a transformative personal experience. In 2019, they launched TRIP to bring delicious, high-quality functional drinks and supplements to millions of people globally.
Now the world's #1 calming beverage brand, TRIP's award-winning drinks and wellness products are crafted with botanicals and adaptogens to help people relax, unwind and find balance. Since launch, TRIP has rapidly expanded from the UK across Europe and North America, generating more than £100 million in sales last year.
There has never been a better time to join our team and be part of the movement.
As we continue to grow our range, launch into new markets and bring more products to life, we’re looking for a detail-obsessed Packaging Art Co-ordinator / Junior Packaging Technologist to join the team.
This is a brilliant opportunity for someone who loves the technical side of packaging and artwork and wants to build their career within a fast-moving, ambitious consumer brand. You’ll play a key role in getting our packaging from creative concept through to production.
Working closely with our Packaging, Product Development, Quality and Creative teams, you’ll help make sure artwork is accurate, technically correct and ready to go to print, whether that’s a new flavour launch, a packaging refresh or adapting existing designs for a new market.
You’ll need an exceptional eye for detail, a strong understanding of artwork and print production, and the confidence to manage multiple projects at pace.
- Manage and track packaging artwork across multiple live projects, keeping timelines, versions and approvals organised and up to date.
- Review artwork carefully at every stage, identifying issues before files reach production.
- Roll out approved designs accurately across different colours, substrates, sizes and markets.
- Prepare artwork for release to printers and suppliers, ensuring files meet the required technical specifications.
- Managing the relationship with key suppliers to ensure packaged files are delivered on time in full, to the TRIP brand and suppliers’ standards.
- Support colour management across packaging and help maintain consistency across different substrates, suppliers and production methods.
- Support ancillary product launches, led by Brand to execute ancillary product activation across drinks, supplements, powders and new formats
- Management across packaging and help maintain consistency across different substrates, suppliers and production methods.
- Work confidently with dielines, cutter guides and print-ready artwork.
- Work closely with Packaging, Product Development, Quality, Regulatory, Creative and external suppliers to keep projects moving.
- Interpret stakeholder feedback and make accurate revisions quickly and efficiently.
- Maintain a clear audit trail of artwork changes, approvals and final files.
- Help us continuously improve the way we manage artwork, packaging processes and technical standards as TRIP grows.
You don’t need to have seen everything before, but you should have a strong foundation in packaging artwork, repro or print production and be excited to build your technical expertise.
- Checking artwork for print, including bleed, overprint, trapping, spot colours, varnishes and export settings.
- CMYK and Pantone colour systems.
- Digital, flexo, gravure and lithographic printing processes.
- Dielines, cutter guides and die-cut formats.
- Packaging formats including cans, cartons, wraps, labels, pouches, sachets and shrink sleeves.
- Different production methods, including digital vs large-scale production and direct print vs sleeving.
- The repro and pre-press process and how artwork files are prepared by printers.
- Basic packaging material structures, including laminates and mono-materials.
Most importantly, you’ll be highly organised, comfortable juggling multiple projects and someone who notices the detail others might miss.
- Experience working within beauty, food, drink, supplements or another fast-moving consumer brand.
- Exposure to UK/US/EU packaging or labelling regulations.
- Experience working across a large portfolio of products or SKUs.
- Experience producing POS or wider retail artwork.
- An interest in packaging materials, print finishes and production feasibility.
- An understanding of how creativity, commercial practicality and sustainability come together in packaging.
- Move before you’re ready — you’re comfortable working at pace and finding solutions as you go.
- Own the outcome — you take responsibility for your work and see things through.
- Obsess over consumers — you understand that every detail contributes to how people experience our brand.
- Challenge with kindness — you’re comfortable speaking up when something isn’t right and work collaboratively to fix it.
- Get better every week — you’re curious, keen to learn and always looking for ways to improve how things are done.
- Lovely, bright and spacious office 1 minute from Notting Hill Gate station, surrounded by TRIP pastel-coloured houses!
- Salary: DOE
- 4 days per week in the office with the option to work from home on a Friday
- Private Healthcare with Vitality including Virgin Gym 50% off
- Holiday: 24 days + birthday off!
- 1 Wellness Day
- Pension plan
- Potential to take part in the company share scheme
- TRIP product discount & Friends+Family codes
- Mindfulness support with Calm App membership
- Breakfast and snacks provided
- Sleep support with monthly Dream Drops CBD Oil allowance
- Working from Anywhere policy: 2 weeks per year in a maximum of 2 blocks
- Dog Friendly office
- Regular team socials & events
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