Packaging Technologist

Position: Packaging Technologist

Location: Monterrey, Nuevo León

Summary:

• Responsible for developing, validating, and implementing new packaging products for finished goods based on customer requirements and plant guidelines.
• Recognizes opportunities on raw material supplier’s packaging to optimize costs and handling while maintaining quality.
• Generate packaging information for the developing of new packaging designs and new packaging.
• Support the correct follow-up of innovative and sustainable projects of the company.

Major duties & Responsibilities:

Support on New products developments:

• Responsible for developing, validating, and implementing new packaging products for finished goods based on customer requirements and plant guidelines.
• Ensuring that packaging products meet set requirements and specifications.
• Generation of packaging plant procedures, specs and standards for new products developments.
• Cost packaging creation for new developments.
• Define net weight and sizing for new developments.
• Define correct configuration of stack pattern.
• Assistance to validate the correct packaging in the new products trials.
• Run trials to check packaging for suitability and testing for performance under various conditions.

New packaging and packaging design developments:

• Business relationships with technical packaging suppliers.
• Contact with cross functional teams, customer, and suppliers, to support topics related to design and new packaging.
• Evaluating and selecting packaging items with suppliers.
• Supply packaging information to generate primary and secondary labeling.
• Review and validate packaging information in each primary and secondary labeling developed that involves design.
• Sign and coordinate the correct process flow starting with the design development, contact with the supplier to obtain the mechanical plane until set up it in our ERP system.
• On some occasions, attendance at packaging print runs.

GPE, Optimize costs & Innovation:

• Recognizes opportunities on raw material supplier’s packaging to optimize costs and handling while maintaining quality.
• Support on the identification, developments, implementation and follow up improvement and/or cost savings/avoidance in packaging projects.
• Evaluating and selecting new packaging suppliers.
• Evaluating packaging proposals focused on the company aspirations as Sustainable packaging.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Engineer with experience on food packaging at least 3 years.
• Knowledge of print production and understanding of file setup and printing parameters.
• Power Point and Excel preference.
• Advanced English.