Job Title: R & D Packaging Technician – West Midlands

Salary: £20-27k Basic + car + benefits

Location: Midlands

Reference: J1995

This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies on an ongoing basis.
More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature. It is therefore in your interest to email your CV, as a Word document, depending on your sector, to:

  • Head of Packaging recruitment – Greg Nelson – greg@harrison-scott.co.uk
  • Head of Print recruitment – Neil Pearson – neil@harrison-scott.co.uk
  • Head of Paper recruitment – Gary Young – gary@harrison-scott.co.uk
  • Board level, account management, and all levels of sales vacancies – George Thompson – george@harrison-scott.co.uk

Our divisional heads will then email your CV internally to the consultant who specialises in your exact sector. For example, a category of packaging is cartons, a category of print is print management. In fact, we have over 30 specialist categories.
Our specialist consultant will contact you if we have a live vacancy that matches, or in the near future as soon as a good match to your skill set and experience becomes available.

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This position reports into the Packaging R&D Team and focuses on technical packaging development to support growth and innovation targets.
Responsibilities include:
• Idea generation for both short term and long term innovation
• Concept / sample development to show new packaging formats, materials, technologies
• Assisting and conducting packaging trials (line trials, transit trials, leaker testing, abuse testing, materials testing)
• Due diligence requirement completed to required standards at each stage of the R&D process (specifications, pallet plans, cutter guides)
• Communication of status of projects to wider team on a regular basis and trial reporting to project teams and management
• Develop standard practices, ways of working and processes across Packaging R&D team
• Manage the packaging specification database, cutter guide library and pallet plan library
• Approval of artwork and liaison with Graphics department

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Similar Packaging R&D Packaging Technician jobs we handle:
• Packaging R&D Senior Development Technician
• Packaging Development Technologist
• Packaging Development Engineer
• Packaging Development Manager

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Contact: Greg Nelson

Telephone: 0141 647 6688

Categories: Midlands, Packaging, Packaging Development, Production/Technical


This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies on an ongoing basis.
More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature. It is therefore in your interest to email your CV, as a Word document, depending on your sector, to:

  • Head of Packaging recruitment – Greg Nelson – greg@harrison-scott.co.uk
  • Head of Print recruitment – Neil Pearson – neil@harrison-scott.co.uk
  • Head of Paper recruitment – Gary Young – gary@harrison-scott.co.uk
  • Board level, account management, and all levels of sales vacancies – George Thompson – george@harrison-scott.co.uk

Our divisional heads will then email your CV internally to the consultant who specialises in your exact sector. For example, a category of packaging is cartons, a category of print is print management. In fact, we have over 30 specialist categories.
Our specialist consultant will contact you if we have a live vacancy that matches, or in the near future as soon as a good match to your skill set and experience becomes available.

**

This position reports into the Packaging R&D Team and focuses on technical packaging development to support growth and innovation targets.
Responsibilities include:
• Idea generation for both short term and long term innovation
• Concept / sample development to show new packaging formats, materials, technologies
• Assisting and conducting packaging trials (line trials, transit trials, leaker testing, abuse testing, materials testing)
• Due diligence requirement completed to required standards at each stage of the R&D process (specifications, pallet plans, cutter guides)
• Communication of status of projects to wider team on a regular basis and trial reporting to project teams and management
• Develop standard practices, ways of working and processes across Packaging R&D team
• Manage the packaging specification database, cutter guide library and pallet plan library
• Approval of artwork and liaison with Graphics department

**

Similar Packaging R&D Packaging Technician jobs we handle:
• Packaging R&D Senior Development Technician
• Packaging Development Technologist
• Packaging Development Engineer
• Packaging Development Manager

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