Senior Packaging Engineer
Apply locations: High Wycombe
Time type: Full time
Posted on: Posted 3 Days Ago
Time left to apply: End Date: January 31, 2025 (30+ days left to apply)
Job requisition id: JR26179
Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast-growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure, and people? Then this is the place for you.
As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.
To succeed at pladis, you need to be purpose-led, resilient, and positive. We expect pace and agility, insist on collaboration, and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivaled opportunities to learn and make an impact.
This Senior Packaging Engineer role is responsible for the development and delivery of a new technology capability for pladis that will be critical for unlocking new and differentiating innovation across our packaging portfolio and for driving sustainability initiatives to meet our global packaging targets and agenda.
The role is key in developing and delivering the packaging growth plan for pladis, focusing on incremental growth through packaging. This can be in the form of asset-driven innovation and/or new technology. Experience in leading multi-site packaging programs and teams is essential, along with experience in leading packaging material capabilities and excellent knowledge in sustainable development practices specifically for packaging.
The role holder will be expected to lead packaging-related agenda across multiple sites in the UK and Europe. They will need to interface with both SC and MKT stakeholders and communicate and influence packaging programs to both technical and non-technical audiences with associated business cases and an end-to-end thinking.
The ideal candidate will have well-developed core packaging development technical skills and be able to understand the needs of the business, our consumers & customers, and translate them to the needs of the project to ensure relevance to our business and brands. The incumbent will be an intellectually agile and curious self-starter with a drive for action and results.
The Senior Packaging Engineer’s key responsibilities include:
* Supporting in defining and delivering a medium to long-term roadmap and aligning an agenda to drive sustainability and productivity.
* Building collaborative relationships with Suppliers to capture best practices on the market and monitor project implementation.
* Spending roughly 75% of time to drive Packaging innovation & productivity & expertise and 25% to monitor and implement the Packaging sustainability roadmap.
The key responsibilities include:
* Sustainable packaging
* Supporting in defining and developing the Packaging sustainability roadmap for pladis.
* Working closely with regional R&D teams around our sustainability roadmap while monitoring progress in every region.
* Creating reports to demonstrate the progress made on our sustainable packaging roadmap.
pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.
About Us
pladis is one of the world’s fastest-growing snacking companies and home to much-loved brands including McVitie’s, GODIVA, and Ülker. Formed in 2016, pladis is the proud steward of over 300 years of family baking and confectionery experience.
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