Description
The Packaging Material and Equipment Technologist will provide hands-on technical delivery for packaging activities within the Worthing Site Packaging Project.
Responsibilities:
- Deliver packaging material and equipment activities: plan and complete assigned material, component and equipment-interface activities for primary, secondary and tertiary packaging
- Assess material–equipment interactions: evaluate how material properties, tolerances, pack design and print or coding requirements affect forming, sealing, feeding, handling, coding, vision inspection and cartoning
- Plan trials and deliver validation: develop and execute trial, qualification and validation protocols for packaging materials, pack formats and equipment interfaces
- Manage technical risk and problem solving: lead or contribute to technical risk assessments, FMEA, transit assessments where applicable
- Maintain specifications, artwork and technical documentation: create, review and update component specifications, drawings, artwork briefs, master data, protocols, reports and change-control records
- Coordinate technical interfaces and suppliers: work cross-functionally and with material, component and equipment suppliers to resolve technical questions
Requirements:
- Relevant technical background: degree-level qualification, or strong equivalent experience, in packaging, materials science, engineering or another relevant scientific or technical discipline
- Packaging materials and equipment-interface expertise: knowledge of primary, secondary and tertiary packaging materials, component manufacture and printing techniques
- Qualification, validation and technical trials: demonstrated experience planning, executing, analysing and reporting material, process or equipment trials, qualification and validation
- Risk assessment and evidence-based problem solving: experience applying Quality by Design, FMEA, root-cause analysis and technical risk assessment
- Specifications, artwork and compliance: experience creating or updating packaging specifications, technical drawings, artwork inputs and controlled records through formal change control