Senior Packaging Engineer

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.

In R&D, 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 R&D Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.

As a Sr. Packaging Engineer your expertise in product development, quality control, and operational efficiency will pave the way for groundbreaking consumer goods. Mentor, collaborate, and drive success alongside your team. If you have a proven track record in R & D, an instinct for innovation, and a desire to lead from the front, we're looking for you.

• 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.
• Participate in project meetings, support project timeline development, deliver against assigned tasks, manage appropriate project communications across the business.
• Assist/conduct root cause analysis and apply trouble shooting techniques to solve technical issues and performance challenges.
• Conduct lab analysis, production line trials and supplier testing as needed on related projects. Generate and analyze collected data to drive technical and business recommendations.
• Identify and support technologies that drive breakthroughs into new packages, cost savings and/or core renovation initiatives within the packaging organization.
• Represent the packaging organization and partner with internal/external business functions to commercialize packaging solutions.
• Research equipment and technical solutions for the package engineering organization improvement

• Bachelor's Degree in Packaging, Package Engineering, or Packaging Science required.
• 4+ years of relevant and experience with progressive responsibilities and project execution in the consumer products, OTC, Nutraceutical, or food packaging industry
• Familiar with US good manufacturing regulatory requirements in relation to Packaging.
• Knowledge of packaging (or related) technical procedures commonly used in a laboratory setting.
• Technical and theoretical packaging materials and process knowledge (paperboard/corrugate converting, resin blow molding, injection molding, thermoforming, film and sheet conversion)
• Strong knowledge in packaging equipment systems including qualifications and validation practices.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, analyze results and recommend changes/improvements.
• Ability to organize and present technical and project management overviews.
• Experience supporting multiple projects concurrently and still meeting critical project milestones.
• Demonstrated efficiency with MS Office, TOPS, ERP systems (SAP) with Solid Works exposure as a plus.

Task Execution Under Pressure, Makes strategic Business Decisions, Business Acumen, Commercial Awareness, Objective Setting, Accountability, Consumer Insight, Creative Direction, R&D, Change Leadership, Product Lifecycle Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Relationship Management, Adapt to changes in technological development plans, Ability to challenge the status quo and propose improvement, Innovation Processes, Digital transformation for R&D, Quality and Manufacturing.

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way.

We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

USD$102,000.00- $152,000.00

The base salary range for this role will vary based on experience in job and industry, training and education, skills relevant to the position, and other factors permitted by law. In addition to the base salary, the position is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, which is subject to change each year.

Reckitt offers eligible employees competitive benefits including medical, prescription, dental, vision, life and disability insurance; paid time off for vacation, sick, and Company recognized holidays; a 401(K) plan; generous paid parental leave; adoption and fertility support; tuition reimbursement; product discounts; and much more!

If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete your application, please contact NAtalentacquisition@reckitt.com. Reckitt is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals.

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.