Development Engineering Packaging - Senior Associate

Food Research Lab; Chennai; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Food Research Lab in Chennai seeks a Development Engineer­ing Packaging - Senior Associate to contribute to packaging development, analysis, and improvements for customer products. This role operates within PCM practices and collaborates across global teams to ensure packaging meets technical and regulatory standards.

The candidate should hold a bachelor’s degree in industrial technology, chemical engineering, or packaging engineering with at least three years in RD packaging development, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in engineering related to packaging.
• Minimum 3 years RD packaging development experience.
• Strong interpersonal skills and customer focus to align with partners.

Responsibilities

• Support global NPD projects as package engineer.
• Evaluate and develop new materials or alternate packaging solutions.
• Manage packaging development projects within global teams.
• Drive packaging requirements to meet technical, timelines and budget goals.
• Execute regional projects as package engineer.
• Ensure FRL lab India remains in good test and safety condition.
• Coordinate local testing for product registration and 全球 validation.
• Collaborate with project manager and cross functional team to build timelines.
• Issue packaging component specifications and pallet patterns.
• Ensure shipments include required packing materials and protective assets.
• Assist in building BOM in PLM system.

Skills

Packaging engineering

Interpersonal skills

Project collaboration

Customer focus

Business English

Education

Bachelor's degree in industrial technology

Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering

Packaging Engineer

Job description

Job Summary

As Package Engineer at FRL India, you will apply best practice throughout PCM (Product Change Management) organization of being responsible for the development, analysis, and improvement of the packaging of our customers products

Responsibilities

• Support global NPD (New Product Development) projects as package engineer
• Evaluate and develop new materials and/or recommend alternate packaging materials, packaging solutions or packaging systems based on product, regulatory, business or technical requirements
• Manage packaging development project/topics or packaging development sub-projects within global teams
• Drive the process to establish and agree on packaging requirements and meet the agreed technical requirements, timelines, and financial budget
• Execute regional initiated (incremental net sale growth/business maintenance/cost saving/special pack) projects as package engineer
• Keep FRL lab India under good test and safety condition
• Accountable for local testing for product registration product validation at FRL, India and assuring validation across the globe by liaising with package engineering
• Collaborate with project manager and cross functional team to build project timeline, deliver key milestones and participate in project meetings accordingly
• Issue packaging component specifications, product recipes and pallet patterns etc.
• Ensuring that shipments are packed with all required material, including barrier bags, desiccants, ESD grounding.
• Support Product Data Management Team to build BOM (Bill of Material) in PLM (Product Life-cycle Management) system

Qualifications

• A minimum of bachelor s degree in industrial technology, Chemical Engineering, Packaging Engineer, or equivalent engineering program
• Minimum 3 years of experience in RD packaging development environment, working understanding of capital management, knowledge of form/filling equipment platforms, in relevant industry
• Must possess strong interpersonal skills and a sharp customer focus to integrate group activities with partners, including Early development, Supply and potential External collaborators.

Job Details

• Job Title: Development Engineering Packaging - Senior Associate
• Department: Digital Marketing
• Reports To: Team Lead
• Work Schedule: Monday - Saturday (except second Saturday)

Skills

• English language capabilities at business level
• Good Manufacturing Process; Food Safety and Sanitation Standards, Ability to learn computerized shipping system and data entry, Food GMP s, Manufacturing, Operating and Safety guidelines, Regulatory and GMP requirements, Safety Processes and regulations, Technical qualifications for packaging components.

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