Enable job alerts via email!
Generate a tailored resume in minutes
Land an interview and earn more. Learn more
A leading company in the premium food sector seeks a Senior Packaging Technologist to lead innovative packaging solutions. You will coordinate cross-functional projects, ensuring the delivery of excellent packaging specifications while fostering collaboration with diverse teams. The role offers a hybrid working model, enhancing work-life flexibility.
Job Title: Senior Packaging Technologist – Some WFH
Salary: Up to £55k pa (depending on experience)
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Reference: J79146
Contact: Telephone: 0121 233 1522
We have a truly exciting opportunity for a packaging technologist passionate about the premium food sector to join this household name client.
Working as part of a cross-functional team, you will lead RDQ activities to complete packaging design and deployment for innovation/growth and productivity projects across multiple geographies, with an emphasis on delivering the desired consumer experience.
You will independently coordinate technical work for projects in line with RDQ, marketing, and manufacturing requirements. This includes effectively communicating status and risks, and coordinating projects to determine appropriate packaging specifications using sampling, supplier management, and pilot-plant and factory trials, all in accordance with good manufacturing practice and HACCP requirements. You will also develop activities such as packaging design, specifications, scale-up, and commissioning, while planning for the effective use of resources including external agencies and suppliers.
To succeed, you should understand equipment design and manufacturing processes to ensure packaging specifications are determined with excellence. You will be accountable for stakeholder management, influencing decisions based on analysis and interpretation of results, developing internal and external technical connections, and creating intellectual property to drive competitive advantage.
Our client offers a range of benefits including 50/50 home/office working, options to buy holidays, and flexible working arrangements.