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Senior Packaging Specialist for Metal Can Filling & Packaging Equipment

” you will work in a multi-disciplinary team, leveraging your experience to scout for relevant new technologies, to drive, develop, apply and maintain solutions and standards for metal can making, filling & packaging lines, in particular: Slitting, Welding, Beading, Flanging, Filling, Clinching, Gassing & Seaming.

In addition, you will support factories in a cross functional network with your specific expert knowledge, coach and support Capex project teams and provide technical assistance to factories in the field of performance improvements, cost reduction & quality.

A Day in the Life of a R&D Senior Packaging Specialist for Metal Can Making, Filling & Packaging Equipment 

• Identify and develop best-in-class technology partners for metal can making, filling & packaging equipment.

• Identify, develop and validate can making, filling & packaging equipment (from experiment to industrialization).

• Drive standardization of can making, filling & packaging lines by authoring and owning standards & guidelines.

• Ensure standards for can making, filling & packaging lines are implemented in investment projects.

• Lead roll out of standardized metal can making, filling & packaging lines in Nutrition plants.

• Support industrialization start-ups at factories.

• Provide technical assistance to factories.

• Lead a cross functional metal packaging community (knowledge sharing, training, feedback to design).

• Actively participate in filling & packaging expert networks to promote cross-fertilization between different R&D units.

• Coach and guide younger team members and Capex project team members in the area of can making, filling & packaging.

• Support factories worldwide to improve production performance by reducing unplanned stoppages.

• Provide training for people involved in F&P technology, either on site or virtually.

• Identify opportunities related to material, method and machine, providing feedback to design and updates on specifications and standards.

What will make you successful 

• Background in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Packaging Engineering or relevant field.

• Strong experience in Filling & Packaging operations in a food factory & manufacturing environment

• Solid expertise in Metal Can Making, Filling & Packaging Equipment, with strong experience leading all phases of new equipment implementation projects (concept, validation, commissioning, start-up, …).

• Experience in managing suppliers.

• Experience in machine and system integration, filling & packaging line simulation, balancing and optimization is a plus.

• Experience in the development of engineering projects as part of multidisciplinary teams.

• Full business proficiency in English is a must, any other language is a plus.

• Strong communication and project management skills as well as networking and teamwork capabilities.

• Ready to travel frequently world-wide up to 30%.