Packaging Specialist; on-site

At Nestlé Health Science, we believe that nutrition, science, and wellness must merge, not collide. Here, we embrace the intrinsic connections of these three pillars, harnessing their collective strength to empower healthier lives. Our broad product portfolio includes renowned brands like Garden of Life®, Nature's Bounty®, Vital Proteins®, Orgain®, Nuun®, BOOST®, Carnation Breakfast Essentials®, Peptamen®, Compleat Organic Blends®, and more. We also have extensive pharmaceutical expertise, offering innovative medicines that aim to prevent, manage, and treat gastrointestinal and metabolic-related diseases.

At Nestlé Health Science, we bring our best for better lives. Our people are challenged to bring fresh, diverse views and make bold moves to empower healthier lives through nutrition. We know brilliant ideas can come from anyone, anywhere. Here we embrace the entrepreneurial spirit and collaborate with teams that champion focused and forward thinking. We are committed to fostering professional growth and celebrating the achievements of our people along the way.

We offer dynamic career paths, robust development, opportunities to learn from talented colleagues around the globe, and benefits that support physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.

Join us to innovate for impact and reimagine the future of health and nutrition for patients and consumers.

The Packaging Specialist plays a crucial role in defining and implementing innovative and sustainable packaging solutions that enhance value for our patients, consumers, and customers. This position focuses on operational improvements and requires providing technical support and expertise to manufacturing and other departments on packaging projects. Success in this role hinges on strong cross‑functional collaboration, effective decision‑making, and self‑sufficiency.

This is an on‑site position located at our Franklin Park, IL manufacturing facility.

• Act as a packaging subject matter expert in support of packaging initiatives that will result in new product introduction, increased productivity, higher quality and improved costs
• Recommend and lead packaging solutions that reduce distribution cost or damage and provide competitive advantage
• Introduce and deliver new and revised packaging concepts and processes focusing on environmental footprint, functionality and consumer value
• Deliver results by working in a collaborative, cross‑functions environment with Procurement, Manufacturing, Quality/R&D and Sales/Marketing to manage the Material Qualification process

• Deliver technical support on installation and commissioning of new packaging equipment, line layout modifications
• Provide front line support to factories. Make sure of knowledge transfer related to packaging mastership to eliminate the root cause of assistance requests
• Propose Asset Intensity improvement solutions for fill & pack operations
• Lead plant driven technical improvements in alignment with technology platform owners and support corporate technical improvements
• Work with operations to resolve packaging design issues and communicate opportunities to tailor design to improve manufacturability
• Deliver front‑line support to factories by facilitating knowledge transfer in packaging mastery to eliminate the root causes of assistance requests

• Understand existing local waste management streams to prioritize sustainable solution are development
• Close internal and external collaboration to develop optimized long‑term solution
• Introduce and deliver new and revised packaging concepts and processes focusing on environmental footprint, functionality and consumer value

• Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Material Science, Packaging Science, Packaging Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related field, with Master's preferred
• 3+ years of relevant packaging industry experience as related to the food and beverage industry
• Clear understanding of packaging design, materials, equipment and systems including SAP
• Strong administrative and computer skills,…