Job Title:
Packaging Engineer
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About the Role:
We are recruiting for a Packaging Engineer to join our team at Lavazza Professional. The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering packaging projects and ensuring that packaging solutions meet legal, functional, and customer/consumer requirements.
Main Responsibilities:
* Design, validation, and delivery of robust and consumer-focused packaging solutions
* Technical project management of allocated packaging projects related to KLIX technology, including identifying, managing, and influencing key stakeholders
* Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of latest market trends and new packaging technologies
* Developing and maintaining packaging specifications that are fit for purpose and volume manufacturing
* Proactively working with suppliers to ensure packaging performance and preventing/Managing technical issues on existing packaging solutions
* Building relationships with internal and external departments
Requirements:
* Degree qualified in physical sciences (polymer science, materials science, chemistry, or engineering) - ESSENTIAL
* FMC background, preferably food or pharmaceutical, with experience in packaged consumer goods and introducing and validating new packaging products and manufacturing processes - ESSENTIAL
* Previous experience in supplier management, good working knowledge of rigid packaging items, and ability to interpret technical drawings
What We Offer:
* Competitive Salary - plus 10% annual bonus scheme
* Annual bonus scheme - performance and profit related
* Development opportunities
* Amazing benefits package
* Hybrid working
Location:
Basingstoke, North Hampshire
Estimated Salary:
£60,000 - £80,000 per annum