R&D Packaging Engineer, Regional Packaging Development; Evansville

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose.

Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

​Research & Development​

In Research and Development, we're full of highly skilled talents that include Scientists, Engineers, Medical, Clinical and Regulatory professionals - all working to create a cleaner, healthier world. With nine Centres of Excellence, we continually seek out new opportunities by using science, our entrepreneurial flare and our fearless innovation to develop and enhance our existing portfolio, never compromising on quality or performance.
We do the right thing, always, by ensuring we act with responsibility and integrity, by complying with regulatory legislation across the globe, whilst ensuring our products are safe for our consumers and are to the highest quality.
The size of our organisation means you'll have the opportunity to learn and work in different functions within R&D, giving you exposure to different disciplines, teams and environments. You will also have access to our Research and Development Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.

About the role

You will be responsible for the successful delivery of Packaging development projects. This position is part of the North America Research & Development Function and reports to the R&D Senior Manager, Regional Packaging, North America. The role will act as either a key technical support person or technical lead for various projects and programs from concept through commercialization. The individual will be expected to accomplish objectives through their individual contributions as well as supporting others in the department or across the packaging teams’ internal customer base.

Your responsibilities

• Drive packaging development from concept to launch.
• Ensure design ideas are accurately developed into innovative packaging components and systems in a sustainable way.
• Protect our products, optimize costs, raise quality, and ensure we meet regulatory standards.
• Support the launch of new products and enhance existing brands.
• Deliver on making our packaging more sustainable and our products more desirable.
• Applies advanced understanding of industry knowledge and capable of developing a technical foundation to build to an expert in research and data analysis to create best in class products.
• Creates packaging material specifications, associated drawings, and packaging procedural specifications to provide the required technical information necessary to support the product/packaging configurations.
• Assist or identify material requirements, draft specifications, and apply testing procedures to ensure projects deliver efficient cost, line performance, package quality, supply chain robustness, and fulfill the consumer need state.
• Applies technical packaging knowledge and information from a wide variety of sources to solve difficult problems and provide solutions based on risk and benefit assessments. Applies fundamental packaging principles in recognizing potential issues and identifies timely and cost-effective solutions.
• Build technical acumen of MJN packaging formats such that incumbent can provide insight and information to key stakeholders internal and external to the department.
• Capable of developing an understanding of the technical requirements and considerations of customer design requirements and constraints for the category (e.g., club stores, e-commerce, etc.)

Project Leadership

• Able to execute defined tasks within a project on cross functional teams, able to work independently on complex projects where incumbent is the lead. Assess feedback from manager and indirect reporting relationships to ensure ongoing alignment to priorities.
• Participates in project meetings, issues related documentation, supports the development of project…