Packaging Development Engineer Food
Location: BelgiumSIRE Life Sciences® is the market leader in life science recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continues innovation. We like technology, in a life science market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!
THE COMPANY
Our client is a professional Food organization, based in Brussel Belgium.
You will be working for one of the largest business-to-business chocolate company in the world. With business units all over Europe (Belgium, France, Spain and Switzerland).
ROLE DESCRIPTION
As a Packaging Development Engineer, you'll be executing cross-functional packaging projects and develop and execute programs to achieve agreed objectives within the different business units. Aim is to generate cost savings through smarter and optimised packaging solutions, as well as adding value through packaging innovation.
Teamwork and cooperation, conceptual thinking, technical expertise, result orientation and stakeholdermanagement are good skills to have for this role.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Concept development, turn idea's into realistic packaging opportunities
- Technical development of primary and secondary packaging together with suppliers
- Line trials and implementation in different business units
- Quality Assurance of first production/launch
- Build on Packaging Innovation funnels
REQUIREMENTS
- MSc. degree in engineering preferably in food- or packaging technical direction
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in the field of developing packaging concepts and project management in an industrial environment
- Experience in 2D and 3D visualisation software packages
- Spoken language: English, Dutch and French are assets
- Willing to travel 30%
Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Rowin van der Zwaan.
