Packaging Technologist (Fixed Term Contract until June 2028)

City: Kingston upon Hull

We are Reckitt, 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 Research and Development, 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 Research and Development Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.

About the role:

NOTE - This is for an initial fixed term period until 1st June 2028. Our Packaging Technologists are responsible for the delivery of packaging projects and activities including New Product Development / Existing Product Development, Productivity, Capex Qualification and implementation of new technology to support compliance. They lead on packaging validation, provision of technical and quality solutions, facilitation of cross functional solutions, and the coaching and development of packaging technicians.

Location: Hull, HU8 7DS

Your responsibilities:

• Support resolution of packaging issues affecting current business.
• Support factory troubleshooting that are packaging related such as design, specification, supplier changes.
• Co-ordinate with other functions to validate any changes in equipment, packaging or procedures and ensure accuracy with activities such as tasks, tests and sampling plans.
• Responsible for all project activity and delivery occurring within the packaging area for NPD, technical transfers and EPD.
• Deliver all documentation on time in full with quality right first time.
• Responsible for scoping and execution of production trials ensuring; scheduling and availability of components, documentation, approvals, sampling/testing, stakeholder relations to ensure functional support.
• Support delivery of CI for packaging processes and procedures.
• Coach and develop packaging Technologists to deliver KPIs.
• Provide input towards the health innovation process, NPDs and EPDs, ensuring Supply involvement to correctly scope the course of delivery, as well as supporting Marketing, R&D, Regulatory and other stakeholders as required in the project execution with a “can-do” relationship.

The experience we're looking for:

• Ideally a minimum of 2 years’ experience in packaging technician or technologist roles, graphics, print, repro or manufacturing (ops, engineering, quality, technical) background.
• Experience in liaising with stakeholders across multiple departments, gaining alignment on project plans and acceptance criteria.
• Operations experience: following standardised work documentation (SOPs, Work Instructions), validation experience, track record of using knowledge and experience to troubleshoot and resolve operational issues (EH&S, Quality, OEE, Cost) due to poor packaging components.
• Training colleagues in new processes, procedures (train the trainer qualification or equivalent).
• Project management / trials experience – experience in planning, coordinating, executing and documenting trial or project activity to set deadlines. (Desirable)

What we offer:

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.

Equality:

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.