Packaging Technician

Job Title: Packaging Technician – Packaging

Location: Leeds |
Business Function: R&D

The Deodorants category is a key part of the Unilever Personal Care Business Group. With the family of Power Brands – Rexona, Dove, Axe – which are critical growth drivers of the company, we are looking for a Packaging Technician to help shape the future of deodorant packaging for some of the world’s most recognizable Personal Care brands. This hands‑on technical role is at the heart of innovation—translating ideas into robust, scalable packaging solutions that deliver outstanding consumer experiences while embedding sustainability, quality, and speed to market.

• Support packaging development across innovation and renovation projects, from concept through to industrialisation
• Provide technical packaging testing support to cross‑functional project teams, ensuring designs meet performance, quality and manufacturing requirements
• Define functional specifications, risk assessments (including FMEA), and validation strategies for components and systems
• Lead packaging trials, lab testing, pilot runs and factory line trials, including working with external partners
• Analyse test data using statistical and digital tools and make recommendations to improve design robustness
• Collaborate with Design and Simulation teams to provide physical test data to validate and calibrate virtual models
• Support initiatives with suppliers globally to improve, harmonise and qualify aerosol and deodorant packaging components
• Contribute to capability building and continuous improvement, including development of new test methods and design rules

• A technical education or experience in Mechanical Engineering or Packaging Engineering
• Experience in working with packaging materials and technologies is preferable (e.g., metals, plastics, aerosols, complex assemblies)
• Confidence working with technical drawings, tolerances, and test data
• Experience with defining and developing testing methods, and comfortable with data analysis and interpretation (e.g., statistical process control)
• Experience in metrology is preferred
• Digital fluency and confidence working with data, digital tools, and analytics to inform decisions

This role is ideal for someone who wants to build a long‑term career in Unilever Packaging and is motivated by the opportunity to grow within a global business. We are looking for a candidate who is keen, curious and eager to learn – someone who brings energy, a proactive mindset and a genuine desire to develop new technical skills, broaden their experience, and continuously improve.

• Competitive salary and pension scheme
• Annual bonus
• Subsidised gym membership
• Discounted staff shop items
• Shares
• Opportunities to work directly with renowned brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment
• Wellbeing support through hubs, programmes, and development opportunities

We strive to achieve a family‑friendly and inclusive workplace and to create possibilities for all. Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities, and growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce and give full and fair consideration to all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.

We are also happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to present your best self.