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Packaging Technician

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unilever logoUnilever · Leeds Office And R&d
Full-timeHybrid6d ago
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Responsibilities

  • Support packaging development across innovation and renovation projects, from concept through to industrialisation
  • Provide technical packaging testing support to cross‑functional project teams, ensuring designs meet performance, quality and manufacturing requirements
  • Define functional specifications, risk assessments (including FMEA), and validation strategies for components and systems
  • Lead packaging trials, lab testing, pilot runs and factory line trials, including working with external partners
  • Analyse test data using statistical and digital tools and make recommendations to improve design robustness
  • Collaborate with Design and Simulation teams to provide physical test data to validate and calibrate virtual models.
  • Support initiatives with suppliers globally to improve, harmonise and qualify aerosol and deodorant packaging components
  • Contribute to capability building and continuous improvement, including development of new test methods and design rules
  • ALL ABOUT YOU
  • A technical education or experience in Mechanical Engineering or Packaging Engineering.
  • Experience in working with packaging materials and technologies is preferable (e.g. metals, plastics, aerosols, complex assemblies).
  • Confidence working with technical drawings, tolerances, and test data.
  • Experience with defining & developing testing methods, and comfortable with data analysis & interpretation (e.g. statistical process control). Experience in metrology is preferred.
  • Digital fluency and confidence working with data, digital tools and analytics to inform decisions
  • Ideal Candidate Profile
  • NOTES
  • About Unilever
  • Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That's why our purpose is 'to make sustainable living commonplace'

Benefits

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares. You'll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.Recruitment FraudCyber criminals advertise fake job adverts with prestigious employers as a way of stealing information or even defrauding individuals out of money. In the most sophisticated cases, they will set up fake websites, which have a siFlexible scheduleEquity / stock optionsPerformance bonus

Additional Information

Job Title: Packaging Technician Business Function: R&D Location: Leeds JOB PURPOSE The Deodorants category is a key part of the Unilever Personal Care Business Group. With a family of Power Brands - Rexona, Dove, Axe - which are critical growth drivers of the company. We are looking for a Packaging Technician to help shape the future of deodorant packaging for some of the world's most recognisable Personal Care brands. This is a hands-on technical role at the heart of innovation-translating ideas into robust, scalable packaging solutions that deliver outstanding consumer experiences while embedding sustainability, quality and speed to market.

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