Packaging Specialist Manager

Nestlé S.A.; Subang Jaya; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Nestlé S.A. in Malaysia is seeking a Packaging Specialist Manager to lead packaging projects at the factory level, ensuring quality, safety, and regulatory compliance. The role requires a Bachelor’s degree in engineering and 5+ years in manufacturing or R&D in the food industry.

You will drive packaging innovations, manage technical releases, develop competencies, and improve processes with cross-functional teams. This is a permanent, full-time role with Nestlé's global standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or any engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in manufacturing or R&D in the food business.
• Experience delivering projects with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead packaging innovations for the factory, including product and process improvements.
• Lead technical releases for the factory and ensure product compliance.
• Ensure quality, food safety and regulatory compliance by design.
• Drive new product development procedures and guidelines; manage change as needed.
• Develop innovations in the factory and ensure products meet strategic targets.
• Assess team competencies and develop training plans to build capabilities.
• Improve existing products and packaging solutions; manage recipes and ingredients knowledge.
• Maintain process mastery and establish labor standards for existing and new products.
• Support manufacturing strategy development and ensure robust documentation in systems.

Skills

Packaging engineering

Project management

Quality systems

Food safety

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor’s degree in Food Science/Technology

Tools

GLOBE

SAP-RM

NPDI

Job description

Position Snapshot (Packaging Specialist Manager)

Permanent – Full Time

Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or any other engineering discipline

5+ years of experience

Position Summary

Joining Nestlé means you are joining the largest Food and Beverage Company in the world. At our very core, we are a human environment – passionate people driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. A Nestle career empowers you to make an impact locally and globally, as you are provided with the opportunity to make a mark and stand out, as long as you seek it. With Nestle, you are enabled and encouraged to grow not only as professionals, but also as people.

We are looking for a Packaging Specialist Manager manage execution of Packaging related projects and initiatives at factory level in line with corporate packaging policies in terms of quality, safety and compliance.

A day in the life of...

• Accountable to lead product, the process and packaging innovations for the factory.
• Accountable to lead technical releases for the factory and ensure the product.
• compliance by design (quality, food safety and regulatory).
• Responsible to drive new products development procedures and guidelines. Also responsible to drive change management as resulting from New Product.
• Development innovations in factory and ensure the development of products that meet 60/40+ in all product categories as defined by Business Unit in the brief.
• Need to assess the competencies of the team of technologists, manufacturing specialists and technicians in factory using skill matrix.
• Ensure to develop a training needs analysis and training plans to develop a competency of the teams.
• Need to improve existing products and packaging solutions.
• Responsible for recipe management, knowledge on ingredients and ingredients substitutions.
• Need to have Process Mastership by having responsibility to improve existing processes (with Engineering & IP), especially for the establishment of temporary and final labor standards for existing and new products.
• Responsible to support manufacturing strategy development.
• Ensure the database management and technical documentation are efficiently establish and need to update the documents in products files particularly of Regulatory templates, Halal certificates, Raw and packaging material specifications, Semi-finished goods specifications, Inter market Supply (IMS) briefs and Accurate maintenance of data in systems (GLOBE, SAP-RM, NPDI, etc…)

What Will Make You Successful

• Had an academic experience in min of Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science/Technology.
• Had an experienced in operational for 5 years in manufacturing / R&D role in food business.
• Have project management capabilities in managing project portfolio in several areas competing for resources and Proven track record in delivering results by working with cross-functional teams.

We are Nestlé, the largest food and beverage company. We are 308,000 employees strong driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. Our values are rooted in respect: respect for ourselves, respect for others, respect for diversity and respect for our future. With more than CHF 91.4 billion sales in 2018, we have an expansive presence with 413 factories in more than 85 countries. We believe our people are our most important asset, so we'll offer you a dynamic inclusive international working environment with many opportunities across different businesses, functions and geographies, working with diverse teams and cultures. Want to learn more? Visit us at www.nestle.com.