Senior Packaging Technologist

True North Talent Limited; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

True North Talent Limited, on behalf of a leading food manufacturer in Greater Manchester, seeks a Senior Packaging Technologist for a 12-month fixed-term contract. The role is based in Greater Manchester with an emphasis on delivering packaging expertise across multiple projects.

You should bring packaging experience, ideally in flexible packaging and corrugate, and a solid understanding of EU packaging legislation, along with excellent communication and collaborative abilities.

Qualifications

• Packaging experience within flexible packaging and corrugate.
• Understanding of EU packaging legislation.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Proactive and organised with a pragmatic approach.
• Ability to hit the ground running and work at pace with multiple projects

Responsibilities

• Deliver packaging expertise across the business to ensure legal and compliant packaging.
• Execute development projects to meet sustainability, innovation, cost reduction, and quality goals.
• Ensure packaging quality and performance meet expectations.
• Support projects requiring packaging expertise across disciplines.
• Create packaging briefs for existing and new innovation pipelines.

Skills

Packaging experience

EU packaging legislation

Communication skills

Organised

Multitasking

Job description

Senior Packaging Technologist – 12mth FTC -Greater Manchester - £50,000 - £60,000 (depending on experience)

Overview:

Great opportunity for a Senior Packaging Technologist to join a leading food manufacturer in this unique opportunity. Whilst there is no guarantee, as they are part of a group, there may be opportunities elsewhere after the contract finishes.

About You:

• As Packaging Technologist, you will need to demonstrate your packaging experience ideally within flexible packaging and corrugate
• Understanding of EU packaging legislation
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a collaborative approach.
• Proactive and organised with a pragmatic approach.
• The ability to hit the ground running and working at pace with a number of projects on the go at any one time.

What will you be doing?

• Deliver packaging expertise across the business to ensure they are legal and compliant.
• Executes development projects to meet the business needs for sustainability, innovation, cost reduction and quality improvements.
• Ensure that quality expectations are met in terms of packaging quality and performance
• As Packaging Technologist, you will be supporting projects where packing expertise is required
• Create packaging briefs for existing and innovation pipeline

What can they offer you?

This is a great business to work for. Opportunities exist within not only your department, but in the wider business too.

We are seeking applications from talented Packaging Technologists, Senior Packaging Technologists, Packaging Technologists, Materials & Packaging Technologists and Packaging Innovation Technologists who live within Greater Manchester and surrounding areas, such as Bolton, Oldham Bury, Rochdale, Stockport, Cheshire and Warrington.

We are only able to consider candidates who have the full legal right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications we receive, we can only contact successful applicants.