Senior Packaging Engineer

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.

The team

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

This position is part of the Reckitt Research & Development team and reports to the Regional Packaging Development Manager.  The role provides technical packaging support and leadership on multiple projects from concept through commercialization.
Scope includes package component maintenance, package innovation, cost savings identification and can include other relevant business requests.  The individual is expected to accomplish objectives through individual contributions as well as indirect reporting relationships within the department, factory, and RB supplier base.

Your responsibilities

Technical skills-Possesses a basic understanding of industry knowledge and capable of building a technical skillset to create best in class packaging

Direct ability to modify existing packages with peers; taking pack designs from bench, pilot plant and commercial scale based on customer or consumer needs.

Lead example in packaging material specification creation, providing technical insight necessary to support the product/packaging configurations; ensure projects deliver at efficient cost, line performance, package quality, supply chain requirements, and consumer satisfaction.

Create components/items within the Reckitt enterprise system and the Reckitt technical document system for packaging documentation.  Lead component harmonization efforts to improve operational and cost efficiency.

Drive technical packaging knowledge to assist in problem solving.  Lead in providing solutions based on risk and benefit assessments using basic problem analysis and resolution, statistical methods, and design of experiments tools.

Subject matter expertise in the technical requirements to meet Reckitt’s customer packaging design requirements (e.g. – Club stores/e-commerce, Walmart/Target, CVS, Grocery) and category (Vitamins/minerals/supplements, personal care, Intimate Wellness, and upper respiratory health) packaging requirements.

Lead voice with OTC consumer goods manufacturing and packaging principles as it relates to packaging design.

Strong understanding of packaging component sustainability and recyclability scope and Reckitt process to measure and reduce global and local environmental impact.

Project participation
- Ability to execute project defined tasks in cross-functional teams including independently working on projects as required.…