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Packaging Technologist

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Portadown

Evron Foods is a highly successful company with dual site manufacturing in the UK and Ireland. We are at the leading edge of delivering innovation and product solutions to the Retail and Food Service markets and currently wish to grow our Technical team within the Portadown site with the appointment of a Packaging Technologist.

The Role:

Responsibilities:

  • Understand the consumer, customer needs and technical requirements from their packaging to develop a programme of work that delivers commercial growth and competitive advantage to our products, while maintaining quality
  • Build supplier relationships to increase packaging knowledge of industry trends and competitors and innovation capability
  • Advise our teams and the customers as to the best options available and the new technologies we can work with them on as a soft relationship builder with customers.
  • Formulate and present to team members, our customers and our community the work we do to minimise our impact locally and globally.
  • Generate new packaging products in response to briefs
  • Ensure all packaging is fit for purpose, compliant with technical and legal requirements, specifications developed
  • Organise and run trials to check packaging for suitability and testing for performance under various conditions
  • Keyline Generation
  • Control production and quality standards, including reporting packaging that doesn’t meet these specification
  • Liaise with marketing, development, technical, purchasing and production teams
  • Evaluate, select and negotiate with suppliers
  • Keep up to date with technological innovations.
  • Work across all sites

Criteria

  • Minimum HND in an appropriate technical, scientific or engineering discipline
  • Excellent communication and negotiation skills
  • Design skills
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Good attention to detail
  • Technical skills
  • Innovation
  • Good teamworking abilities.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Free parking
  • Employer Pension
  • Life Assurance
  • Company shop

To apply for the role forward your CV to a.johnston@evronfoods.co.uk or contact Amanda on 02838337170 ext. 2522 for an application form.

Evron Foods is an Equal Opportunity Employer