Packaging Technologist

Job Title

Packaging Technologist

R&D – Packaging Technologist Business Function: R&D

Leeds

Shape the future of deodorant packaging for key Personal Care brands, translating ideas into robust, scalable solutions that deliver consumer experiences while embedding sustainability, quality, and speed to market.

• Lead and support packaging development across innovation and renovation projects, from concept to industrialisation.
• Provide technical packaging expertise 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.
• Plan and deliver packaging trials, lab testing, pilot runs and factory line trials, managing technicians and external partners.
• Analyse test data using statistical and digital tools to identify risks, drive decisions and improve design robustness.
• Collaborate with Design and Simulation teams to validate and calibrate virtual models using physical test data.
• Work 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.

• Technical background in engineering, science, design, materials or equivalent experience.
• Experience in packaging development, working with packaging materials and technologies (metals, plastics, aerosols, complex assemblies).
• Confidence working with technical drawings, tolerances, and test data.
• Experience with defining and developing testing methods, comfortable with data analysis and interpretation (eg statistical process control).
• Experience in metrology is preferred.
• Digital fluency and confidence working with data, digital tools and analytics to inform decisions.
• Knowledge of personal care or specifically deodorant packaging (aerosol, stick, or roll‑on formats) is a strong advantage.

• Competitive salary and pension scheme.
• Annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, discounted staff shop and shares.
• Flexible working options with a hybrid environment.
• Supportive wellbeing programmes.

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