Structural Packaging Engineer Southampton, England
Kingfisher
Full Time
Southampton, England
24548 - 43024 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Overview:
At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.
If you require any additional support or adjustments to help you make an application, please contact us at [email protected]
We advocate the benefits of a flexible and hybrid working environment, recognising that this means different things, to different people, in different roles.
Your role as a Structural Packaging Engineer will be to provide guidance to internal matrix teams, banners, and vendors on all aspects of structural packaging. You’ll be responsible for project managing structural packaging activities, structural packaging briefs, advise on packaging sustainability, identifying opportunities for packaging improvement, sustainability improvement and cost reduction.
What's the job?:
We’re adopting a hybrid approach with some office and some home working, on average 40-60% in the office. Your office location? This person will be UK based with our Head Office in Southampton, or we could explore the option of being based in one of our other retail banners head offices in Paddington or Yeovil.
Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.
#lLI-HV1
We’re Kingfisher. You might know us as B&Q, Screwfix, Castorama, Brico Depot or Koçtaş. We’re made up of over 78,000 passionate people, call over 1,300 stores home and operate in 8 countries. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.
At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.
If you require any additional support or adjustments to help you make an application, please contact us at [email protected]
We advocate the benefits of a flexible and hybrid working environment, recognising that this means different things, to different people, in different roles.
Your role as a Structural Packaging Engineer will be to provide guidance to internal matrix teams, banners, and vendors on all aspects of structural packaging. You’ll be responsible for project managing structural packaging activities, structural packaging briefs, advise on packaging sustainability, identifying opportunities for packaging improvement, sustainability improvement and cost reduction.
To be successful in this role you will:
- Captures the needs of the brand, consumer, product experience and constraints of the supply chain and turns them into clear packaging specifications that identify value added opportunities
- Define upfront project success criteria (innovation, sustainability, affordability and quality) and drive clarity throughout each project
- Brief suppliers and leads the development of technical solutions through proof-of-concept to production and implementation of each project
- Delivers technical specifications while ensuring the ‘end of life’ recycling of our packaging materials have been considered
- Identifies and uses appropriate tools, processes and resources for problem solving.
- Actively listens and relates to others in an accepting and respectful manner, values differences and builds rapport
- Adapts their communication style and approach as appropriate, using effective diplomacy when and where required
- Works co-operatively, actively building cohesive relationships within and across teams (internally or externally)
What experience you’ll bring:
- Structural packaging experience as a Packaging Engineer or Technologist in either the retail or packaging sectors.
- Experience within packaging production or packaging material manufacture.
- Good understanding of packaging production processes and materials across all retail packaging formats.
- Solid understanding of print processes &‘Print quality Management’ is desirable.
- Solid understanding of critical success factors for readability of retail & warehouse barcoding is desirable.
- CAD (ArtiosCAD/CAPE) experience and packaging prototyping skills.
- Industry expert knowledge about primary and transit packaging materials, innovations, trends.
- Demonstrate a good insight of how packaging contributes to customer experience and purchase decision making.
What we offer In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self.
We’re adopting a hybrid approach with some office and some home working, on average 40-60% in the office. Your office location? This person will be UK based with our Head Office in Southampton, or we could explore the option of being based in one of our other retail banners head offices in Paddington or Yeovil.
We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.
Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.
#lLI-HV1
#LI-HYBRID
Kingfisher
www.kingfisher.com
London, United Kingdom
Thierry Garnier
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Home Furniture & Housewares Stores
1980
