Senior Structural Designer – North East

• To design packaging solutions which meet the customers’ needs and requirements in such a way that they can be manufactured easily and cost effectively? In the role you will be expected to support internal customers: sales, commercial, production with relevant documentation, specifications and drawings in a timely manner.
• This is a key position within the business unit and has the opportunity to influence the efficient, cost effective manufacture of our products.
• Able to demonstrate a naturally creative and curious mind-set and an appetite to consider design and technical solutions from an innovative perspective.
• A genuine interest in working with world class brand owners, and in the role of brands and retailing in driving consumer facing businesses.
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment, multi-tasking and multi-disciplined you will have several projects and requirements at any one time.
• Good written and oral communication skills, able to present an argument well and also be a trusted advisor amongst client-side peers from different departments.
• A natural commitment to reject mediocrity and strive for high-performance.
• Excellent organizational and planning skills – shares critical information and co-ordinates appropriately.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Reasonable (and developing) understanding of commercial factors within business.
• A flexible attitude to work demands as client service and satisfaction are key to our success.
• Makes sound judgments and decisions in a professional manner.
• Supports diversity – values diverse perspectives, treats individuals fairly and with respect.
• Works to improve performance of oneself and others – encouraging continuous learning and feedback.
• The ability to handle difficult situations in a patient, calm and effective way, and to work to pressurised deadlines when necessary.
• An interest in protecting the environment and a commitment to working with the team to advise clients on how to improve the impacts of their packaging activity.
• Computer literate: Excel, Word, Power Point. CAD(various) Management Information Systems (MIS) Project Management (Prince2.)

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This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies to this on an ongoing basis that might interest you. More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature therefore it would certainly be in your interest to email your CV, as a word document, depending on which sector you are in, to :-

Head of Packaging recruitment – Greg Nelson – greg@harrison-scott.co.uk

Head of Print recruitment–Neil Pearson – neil@harrison-scott.co.uk

Head 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 contact you in the near future as soon a good match to skill set and experience becomes available.