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Packaging Engineer, Fragrance & Beauty, Global Ops
Job summary
A leading global food and fragrance company is seeking a F&B Packaging Engineer in Ashford, UK. This role involves being the primary contact for packaging activities, coordinating validation, and driving trials. Candidates should hold a Master's in packaging technology and bring over 5 years of relevant experience. Join a company that values diversity and innovation, dedicated to crafting better lives for consumers.
Qualifications
- More than 5 years of operational/R&D experience in a packaging position.
- Expertise in Safety & Food Safety regulation.
- Proficiency in English; additional language skills are an advantage.
Responsibilities
- Be the primary contact for packaging activities.
- Coordinate packaging validation activities.
- Drive packaging trials and collect qualification documents.
Skills
Education
Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness and humility, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good.
There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Dive into varied, flexible, and stimulating environments. Meet empowered professionals to partner with, befriend, and stretch your skills alongside. Every day, your energy, your creativity, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people.
- You can be based in Ashford (UK) or Sant Celoni (Spain) reporting to the Head of Manufacturing Excellence, Global Operations F&B.
Sounds interesting? It could well be your perfect opportunity if you, like us, are experienced at building relationships and always aiming to anticipate and exceed customer needs.
- Be the primary contact for the region/division on packaging activities and act as lead expert
- Coordinate packaging validation activities and collect packaging qualification documents with project teams
- Drive packaging trials when required as per the validation plan and provide inputs for manufacturing/packaging cost and Capex plans.
- Network with Packaging Engineering team, Process Engineering, Procurement, Safety, Quality and Supply chain teams
- Support regional teams for the evaluation and selection of packaging vendors and periodically conduct vendor reviews
- Lead packaging projects for the region/division and implement packaging processes, best practice and guidelines as agreed with the Global Packaging Team.
- Be responsible for Inbound and Outbound Packaging process & improvements.
- Ready to also support overall Manufacturing process excellence in addition to packaging related processes such as Packing & Filling process, Material Handling Process, Storage and transportation.
- Address and report regulatory exposures (Dangerous Goods, Food Contact Materials,…) and ensure all packaging material meet safety and quality standards in consideration of legal and country requirements
- Provide support to Operation and Quality teams on issues related to packaging materials, packaging equipment to determine best-fit resolutions and dedicated customer issue management for packaging.
- Solve Packaging and labelling issues.
- Ensure data quality of packaging material in the system as well as the accuracy of documents stored in the global packaging repository.
- Inspire and support the business in developing innovative packaging solutions for new product categories (e.g. integrated solutions)
- Support the implementation of alternative packaging options and new materials in line with our strategy on Plastic Circularity to meet our 2030 targets on single us plastics.
- Set a customer first approach to Packaging development
- Identify regional packaging optimization projects
- Preferably Master's degree in packaging technology or relevant experience in packaging engineering and processes
- More than 5 years of operational / R&D experience in a packaging position
- Experience in Packaging in a B2B industry with experience in food ingredients or related industry
- International exposure
- Expertise in Safety & Food Safety regulation
- Exposure to Dangerous Goods transportation norms
- Experienced working and communicating in a matrix organization
- Proficiency in English; additional language skills are an advantage
- Required knowledge about Packaging for Food content (Oral Care ,Food Compliance) and cosmetics (Active Beauty ,Liquid Compounding).
Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners. Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.
* The salary benchmark is based on the target salaries of market leaders in their relevant sectors. It is intended to serve as a guide to help Premium Members assess open positions and to help in salary negotiations. The salary benchmark is not provided directly by the company, which could be significantly higher or lower.
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