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Packaging Technologist
3 months ago
**Company Description**:
**Rewards & Benefits on Offer;**
- Holiday - 25 days plus bank holidays
- Pension - Statutory - Pension Salary Exchange.
- Retail discount scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme (if enrolled in the Pension)
- 4 x Death in Service
- Company Sick Pay - 1 months over 12 months rolling contract (post probation)
- Site - Seaham - Site based role primarily.
- Hours - 8:30am till 5:00pm, Monday to Friday.
- Permanent Contract.
- Immediate Start Available.
**MTrec’s New Opportunity;**
**Job Specification**:
**The Job You’ll Do;**
- Manage relationships with design houses to support development of good practice. Improve printing process and quality of reprographics. Brief artworks, create and maintain cutter guides, coordinate packaging redesign projects on current SKUs and manage new film changeovers on site.
- Support NPD process to bring new products to market with trials and transit support. Manage timelines for packaging printing (FTP) and introduction on site.
- Support day to day issues with site packaging, supporting QA and operations.
- Develop understanding of our packaging products to improve operational line efficiency and product efficacy.
- To ensure all existing packaging is fit for purpose, compliant with technical and legal requirements, specifications developed and held electronically for access.
- Deliver packaging cost saving and rationalisation projects.
- Build supplier relationships to increase our packaging knowledge of industry trends and competitors and our innovation capability.
**About You;**
- Educated to Degree level is desirable.
- Packaging qualification is desirable.
- Experience within NPD - Quality and cost saving.
- Experience within FMCG.
- Previous experience within a Packaging Technologist role or similar.