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Associate Senior Packaging Technologist - 1 Year FTC

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Hybrid
Wigan, Lancashire, England
Senior level
Hybrid
Wigan, Lancashire, England
Senior level
The Associate Senior Packaging Technologist role involves creating and implementing packaging solutions, driving innovation, and building relationships while ensuring sustainability and cost-efficiency. The position requires collaboration within a high-performing team and includes responsibilities like risk management and quality assurance.
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Job Description
What's on the Menu:
We have an exciting opportunity available for an Associate Senior Packaging Technologist to make a difference at Kraft Heinz. The position sits within the International R&D Packaging team, based at our factory in Kitt Green, Wigan. You will be working in a high performing team, alongside peers always trying to reach the next level. This position will be reporting into the Packaging Manager whilst also having a lot of exposure to internal senior stakeholders. Within the role, you will constantly be looking for new and improved packaging solutions for the international market.
Key Ingredients:

  • Delivering key goals; perfect the fundamentals, ensure cost competitiveness, make sustainability a competitive edge that Kraft Heinz has, and strengthen capabilities and competencies in the International Zone Packaging team
  • Creating, developing, and implementing industrialized packaging solutions under specific projects, ensuring robust risk management and delivery of quality attributes
  • Proactively drive innovation and cost-out ideas to build the pipeline
  • Building strong cross functional relationships


Recipe for Success: Apply if it sounds like you
Requirements:

  • A completed Packaging / engineering / science degree
  • Roughly 5 years of experience within packaging development in a complex / matrix organization
  • Understanding of food technology and preservation.
  • Business fluency in English (written & verbal)


Competencies:

  • Passionate and curious to learn all there is about Packaging and Food
  • Strong communication skills
  • Strong interpersonal skills: different nationalities, teams, clients
  • Problem solver; be creative and pragmatic
  • Customer focus; external and internal clients
  • Takes action and ownership


What we offer you / You deserve

  • An ambitious employer; we want to the best for you;
  • A fast career track like only few other companies can match;
  • A competitive salary and excellent bonus structure (above market);
  • Always room for new ideas; if you have an excellent idea, please let us know, and we can set it in action!


We hope you find a seat at our table!
Location(s)
Kitt Green
Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.

Top Skills

Engineering
Food Technology
Packaging
Risk Management

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