Senior Packaging Engineer

Spectrum Brands EMEA UK; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Spectrum Brands EMEA UK as a Senior Packaging Engineer and contribute to innovative packaging designs for top brands in the pet care sector. This role offers the opportunity to utilize your technical expertise in packaging while ensuring compliance with regulations and driving sustainability initiatives. Be part of a dynamic team in a leading company renowned for quality and commitment.

Benefits

25 days holiday + Bank holidays

Company Pension – up to 7% matched employer contribution

Life Assurance

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in consumer product packaging preferred.
• Understanding of UK & EU packaging regulations.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects successfully.

Responsibilities

• Design innovative packaging solutions and improve cost efficiencies.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory standards for packaging.
• Manage projects, stakeholders, and data analytics.

Skills

Packaging solutions

Cost improvement strategies

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder management

Data management and analytics

Education

Degree in Package Design, Industrial Design, or related field

Tools

Excel

SAP

CAPE

ArtiosCAD

Adobe Illustrator

Job description

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At Spectrum Brands Global Pet Care (GPC), we're proud to be a leading worldwide supplier of exceptional pet products for dogs, cats, birds, fish and small animals. With trusted brands like Good Boy, FURminator, Tetra, Iams, and Eukanuba, we're committed to delivering value and quality to pets and their owners globally.

If so, we want you to join our UK sourcing team as a Senior Packaging Engineer for our key Companion Animal brands including the UK’s No.1 dog treat & toys brand, Good Boy.

The Role:

As a Senior Packaging Manager, you will lead in the efforts to design solutions and exceed our customer expectations. In this technical leadership role you will be involved in concept and design reviews as well as prototyping and production reviews using your technical knowledge to ensure material, budget and design constraints and aligned.

Key Responsibilities:

• Cost improvement - Evaluate current packaging and create cost improvement strategies for both existing and new package designs.
• Compliance with Regulatory and Government bodies for packaging - Namely Waste Reporting (EPR UK) and Plastic Tax - Working with Internal and External resources to ensure timely reporting, compliance, submissions and payment of fees.
• Deliver packaging innovations and development – towards more sustainable packaging and putting a strategy in place to limit impact and drive brand credibility in this area and aligned to country regulations.
• Organization, planning and tracking of projects.
• System management and sampling
• Stakeholder management and ensure customer success.

About You:

You will have previous experience in package design or engineering/industrial design or package Engineering.

Key Skills & Experience:

• Degree in a related field - Package Design, Industrial Design, Chemical Engineering, or Package Engineering.
• Considerable knowledge of packaging solutions, including flexible, rigid across food and no food product categories. 5+ years of experience preferred and ideally in consumer products packaging.
• Understanding of regulations, test procedures and bodies which are key to the role – across UK & EU. You will have experience in packaging legislation and governing bodies for both food and non food categories for UK and EU distribution. Ability to translate packaging trends and regulations into packaging solutions which meet product and customer requirements
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written English languages. You will be skilled at interfacing and influencing at all levels, specifically senior stakeholders both inside and outside of the organization.
• Also with experience interfacing with global suppliers, across different cultures and languages. You will be be able to facilitate dynamic, cross-functional groups and strong presentations.
• Sound financial acumen and of packaging assessments which deliver tangible cost improvements, across material, transport and efficiencies
• Strong data management skills, including data analytics, multi and complex forms, loading data sets into operating systems. Proficient in the use of Microsoft office including Excel, SAP, packaging systems and applications. Knowledgeable in packaging software and applications - CAPE, ArtiosCAD, and Adobe Illustrator.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects successfully, across NPD, cost savings, legislation and sustainability.

Why Join Us:

• An opportunity to be innovative
• A dynamic and supportive team environment
• Career growth and development opportunities

If you’re ready to take on a role where you can make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you!

• 25 days holiday + Bank holidays, with option to buy additional 5
• Company Pension – up to 7% matched employer contribution
• Life Assurance

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Purchasing

• Industries

  Manufacturing and Retail

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