Packaging Engineer - Specifications & Product Lifecycle; m​/f​/d

Knauf stands for opportunity. This exciting role offers you the ideal opportunity to begin and further develop an impressive career within a values-driven culture.

As a global building materials manufacturer with around 43,500 employees in over 90 countries
, we offer diverse opportunities to ambitious talent. We value every contribution and are committed to creating a safe and inclusive work environment with the aim of developing sustainable solutions for a better future
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Knauf Gips KG is proud to be a part of the Knauf Group. With a long-standing tradition, and a growing international presence, we are seeking dedicated individuals to help us achieve our long-term vision.

• Is respectful and appreciative interaction within the team a given for you?

• Do you always put the customer at the center of your actions?

• Do you consider the future and upcoming generations in your actions?

• Do you strive for personal and professional growth?

• In this role you will define, maintain, and continuously develop packaging specifications and technical packaging standards, ensuring that regulatory and sustainability requirements are translated into clear and practical technical criteria

• You will take over the technical requirements and intended-use responsibilities established through PPWR implementation and integrate packaging requirements into product development, change management and product lifecycle processes

• Working closely with Procurement and Product Management, you will provide the technical basis needed to tender, select, and source compliant packaging and trading goods, while also assessing existing solutions and recommending robust technical adaptations where needed

• As the central technical expert for packaging materials, technologies, performance, and recyclability, you will support packaging-related Ecodesign and ESPR activities and help prepare the organization for emerging lifecycle requirements

• Cross-functional collaboration will be essential to move specifications from concept into implementation and to standardize packaging technologies where this creates compliance, cost, or operational benefit

• You have several years of experience in packaging engineering, packaging development, materials science, industrial engineering or a comparable technical field, combined with a strong understanding of packaging materials, systems and industrial packaging applications

• Strong ability to translate regulatory and business requirements into precise, practical technical specifications and to understand their impact on sourcing, manufacturing, product development, and compliance

• A structured engineering mindset allows you to balance technical quality with feasibility and commercial realities in a pragmatic way

• You are comfortable working across multiple plants, suppliers, product categories and international stakeholders, and you communicate technical complexity clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences

• You are fluent in English, additional languages are an advantage, and you enjoy taking a hands-on approach to drive technical requirements through to implementation

We all shape our lives individually. As an employer, we play a significant role in the daily life of our employees and aim to support them with various offerings. This includes, among other things:

• Security
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  Permanent employment contract in a stable, successful family-owned company.

• Flexibility
  : 30 days of vacation, special leave for certain occasions, flexitime account with a broad time window for flexible working and weekly 2 home office days.

• Fitness and health
  :
  Discounts on various sports and leisure activities (e.g., fitness studio Iphofen, swimming training, soccer, etc.), as well as opportunities for active health promotion through our company doctor and occupational health and safety offers.

• Daily time savings: Ample parking and direct access to public transport from the company premises (train, bus).

• Future planning
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  Subsidies for capital-forming benefits and offers for company pension schemes.

• Welcome approach
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  Individual onboarding days, company and team events, subsidized company canteen…