Are you excited by the idea of improving food packaging at the source—right on the production floor? Do you enjoy combining technical know-how, project ownership, and collaboration to turn packaging challenges into smart, practical solutions?
As a Packaging Engineer, you’ll play an important role in supporting packaging qualifications, optimization initiatives, and innovation projects across production sites and copackers. You’ll work closely with internal and external stakeholders, bringing technical insight to packaging and filling operations while helping ensure high standards in quality, efficiency, and documentation. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys being close to operations, solving problems with data, and driving projects forward in a dynamic environment.
Areas that play to your strengths
All the responsibilities we'll trust you with:
You’ll visit packaging productions and copackers to support qualifications, optimization activities, and innovation projects. By being present on-site, you’ll help assess technical requirements, identify improvement opportunities, and ensure packaging solutions work effectively in real production environments.
You’ll conduct audits to review packaging-related processes and standards. Your work will help ensure production partners and operations meet the required expectations and support continuous improvement.
You’ll manage a diverse range of food packaging-related projects with internal and external stakeholders. From planning through execution, you’ll coordinate interdisciplinary activities and help keep projects moving efficiently and effectively.
You’ll use your understanding of technical requirements in packaging productions and filling operations to support practical decision-making. You’ll help evaluate current processes and contribute to solutions that improve performance and reliability.
You’ll analyze production data and translate insights into actionable optimization opportunities. Your ability to understand operational data will support continuous improvement across packaging processes.
You’ll maintain clear and structured project documentation while working with a range of internal and external partners. Strong collaboration will be key as you align different stakeholders and contribute to interdisciplinary project success.
Your areas of knowledge and expertise
that matter most for this role:
- 1–3 (or more) years of experience in packaging production across primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging, working with various materials or experience in food production
- University degree in Technical Studies or Natural Science
- Fluent in English
- Understanding of technical requirements for packaging productions and filling operations
- Ability to analyze production data and develop solutions for optimization
- Experience managing or supporting interdisciplinary projects with multiple stakeholders
- Openness to travel and confidence working with internal and external partners
- Experience with metallurgy is beneficial
- Travel 40-50%
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