Packaging Technologist, N Yorkshire

Job Description

A rare opportunity has arisen in our Packaging Delivery Team for someone to join our client as a Packaging Technologist permanently.

Using your experience you will work alongside their experienced Packaging Delivery Team, responsible for driving the development of packaging for new and existing products, conduct testing of finished packs to assist the setting of quality standards and work with suppliers on improving the technical performance on existing packaging working within the framework of Business Strategies.

This role will act as the subject matter expert on allocated projects in line with our business values and strategies, manage trials from concept to output, act as an escalation point for packaging quality and support the delivery of unplanned business needs to ensure continuity of supply.

This is a permanent, full-time role working 37.5 hours over 5 days – Monday to Friday. We offer the opportunity for flexible/hybrid working, but this would ideally include 3 days per week collaborating with your colleagues at their offices in North Yorkshire.

About you

Whether you are looking to develop and expand your packaging knowledge, or already have extensive packaging knowledge we would love to hear what you could bring to our team.

We are looking for someone with the following:

Degree qualified in a scientific/technical discipline or equivalent work-related experience.
Hands on packaging development experience, ideally within a food/beverage/FMCG environment.
Experience of working collaboratively as packaging subject matter expert on cross-functional project teams to deliver new product development and continuous improvement projects to brief, time and cost.
Experience of arranging and conducting required line trials to validate packaging solutions, from drafting of trial protocols through to analysis and reporting of results and recommendations.
Intermediate knowledge of MSN365 and ideally CAPE or similar.

What we offer you:

As a minimum, all employees receive free meals, drinks and snacks while at work, a discretionary quarterly profit-share bonus, holiday allowance with the option to buy and (in some cases) sell additional days, company-wide employee discounts, access to the health cash plan, wellbeing support, company funded counselling, and enrolment in the company pension.

Also offered is a range of development opportunities no matter your role and ambitions. Encouraging everyone to explore what makes them the best version of themselves, doing this through external training programmes, apprenticeships and internal 1:1 coaching schemes.

If would be interested in finding out more, please drop me an email at simon@drnewitt.com.