Graduate Packaging Technologist – Cambridgeshire - East Anglia

Graduate Packaging Technologist – Cambridgeshire

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Graduate Packaging Technologist – Cambridgeshire

This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies to this on an ongoing basis that might interest you. More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature therefore it would certainly be in your interest to email your CV, as a word document, depending on which sector you are in, to :

Head of Packaging recruitment – Greg Nelson –

Head of Print recruitment – Neil Pearson –

Head Paper recruitment – Gary Young –

Board level, account management and all levels of sales vacancies –

Our divisional heads will then email your CV internally to the consultant who specialises in your exact sector, for example a category of packaging is cartons, a category of print is print management, in fact we have over 30 specialist categories. Our specialist consultant will contact you if we have a live vacancy that matches, or contact you in the near future as soon as a good match to skill set and experience becomes available.

12 month fixed term contract.

Salary would be a graduate starting salary of £17,425. This would rise by £1000 after 6 months.

• Creating and maintaining packaging specifications for both componentry and the manufacturing process.
• Arranging ink matching and colour matching of components.
• New line forms
• Sampling of components and arranging testing.
• Attending risk analysis, pre‑production meetings and weekly NPD meetings.
• Working to tight deadlines on critical paths, reporting to Product Manager on any concerns and general progress.
• Collating information from suppliers on REACh, Packaging Regulations and customer specific requirements.
• Working closely with both external and internal contacts to develop product ranges.
• Assisting with customer sealing process (development seal, pre‑production seal, etc)

Please send Microsoft Word CV and a paragraph describing your knowledge/experience within the areas described in the job description above.

We prefer MS Word format (.doc or .docx).

Being the largest recruitment company in print, packaging and paper we receive new vacancies on a daily basis. The software we use to "skill match" can "read" a word document but not a PDF. You will be considered for many more positions if your CV is in word format.

The following section is OPTIONAL however if you have the time it would help tremendously in us matching you to over 300 positions (the average number we have at any one time).