Packaging Technologist

Due to ongoing growth, Aegg are looking to expand their Procurement team with an experienced packaging technologist.

**What is your Goal - Target**

To ensure all bought in and manufactured goods are to the correct specification, improving, managing, and advising the Aegg supply base on best practice.

**What are you responsible for (Summary)**

To be the first point of call for all technical queries, managing and improving product standards.

**Your key accountabilities are**:

- Managing packaging standards for all bought in and manufactured goods
- Managing product development from first concept to full customer approval
- Manage specification generation and review as necessary
- Manage and support trials
- Monitoring and managing suppliers’ performance to an approved specification
- Set up and manage quarterly meetings with suppliers in line with agreed contracts and agendas
- Liaising with the Aegg Quality Manager so as to maintain supplier food safety standards
- Liaising with the Quality Manager in order to monitor and generate, an improvement plan to raise the supplier score as required
- Involvement, as necessary, in the supplier approval process
- Involvement in the design process for all NPD activities including the monitoring project progress, generation and execution of validation plans
- Responsible and lead for all plastic and glass complaints / enquiries, understanding the root cause and advise on robust solutions
- Attend supplier and customer visits globally as required
- Set out and present monthly trends and innovation

**You should demonstrate the following Skills, Knowledge and Experience**:

- Good MS office skills
- Excellent understanding of written and spoken English
- Excellent attention to detail
- Design experience would be useful (solidworks)
- Knowledge of the manufacturing of packaging glass
- Knowledge of the manufacturing of plastics
- Knowledge of plastic polymers
- Project management skills and MS Project
- Understanding of glass andplastic tooling requirements and standards

**Your key challenges will be**:

- Maintaining and improving manufacturing standards
- Maintaining, recording, and feeding back supplier scoring in line with quality and logistics agreements.
- Managing supplier improvement plans in line with scoring

Competitive package available, dependent on experience.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £1.00 per year

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Eye: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person