Technical Manager – Flexible Packaging

Company Profile:

Our Client is a well-established and successfully growing company who provide total flexible packaging solutions for the Fresh Produce; Fruit and Vegetable industry.

The Company manages all of their Customer’s Print & Packaging requirements, specialities include: Premade Bags, PE VFFS film, PP flow wrap film, Lidding film, Conical Sleeves, Crate Liners, Pallet Hoods, Shrink Film, Stretch Film, Modified Atmosphere, Consultation.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

Experience of the supply of flexible films to the food industry
Experience of the make-up of polymer based substrates – LDPE, BOPP, PET and laminates
Knowledge of: lamination structures, barrier properties and specifications for food packaging.
An understanding of inks, reprographics and origination process would be considered advantageous
Educated to degree level in a technical or scientific discipline

The role:

As Technical Manager the successful Candidate will be responsible for:
Dealing with suppliers on technical issues including supplier quality issues.
Participating in research and new product development.
Dealing with technical queries from production.
Producing internal technical specifications.
Customer facing consultative problem solving.

***CVs in Word please.

.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.