Packaging Specialist - Beverage

 

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If you're driven by the passion to do something meaningful that changes lives, Nestlé is the place for you. Nestlé USA is one of seven operating companies that make up Nestlé’s presence in the United States. We're in 97% of American homes, and as the leading food and beverage company, our goals are to continue to deliver quality food and beverage products, strengthen our local communities, and reduce our environmental and climate impact.

 

We’re determined to challenge the status quo and be better tomorrow than we are today. As individuals and teams, we embrace our entrepreneurial culture and have created a workplace where collaboration is essential, courage is rewarded, speed is expected, and agility is the norm to delight our consumers every single day. Here, you will find limitless opportunities to learn and advance your career and feel empowered to succeed in the workplace and beyond. Because our focus is not only on nourishing our customers, but also about enriching you.

 

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Position Summary:

Technical Packaging lead on project teams to deliver innovation and renovation portfolio and/or driving continuous improvement with the factory to optimize filling and packaging line performance and packaging quality. Develops and launches packaging solutions in line with Marketing, or factory improvement initiative while ensuring packaging safety, quality, functionality and sustainability objectives are being met in a cost-efficient manner. Collaborates internally and externally to build relationships in order to continuously improve technical skills and personal development.

 

Primary Responsibilities:

New Product/Development

Implementation of Innovation & Renovation strategy in the market. Leverages technical experience, R&D and external industry insights to develop, implement, and execute creative packaging development activities (e.g. bench top, pilot plant, and internal/external factory) to achieve project goals and deadlines to delight the consumer. Aligns with relevant PTCs on breakthrough packaging solutions as well as process or technology improvements to safeguard intellectual property.

Drives creative structural packaging development, as part of Innovation/Renovation projects and processes that delivers on consumer insights and key Brand attributes. Uses consumer & customer centric insights. Participates in relevant consumer research activities and, for specific structural package development projects, assists in the development of appropriate consumer research plans. Uses Nestle innovation workshop for idea/concept generation and Nestle tool to assess the impact to the environment of the packaging structure.

 

Optimization/Process

Packaging System Performance & Productivity

Own/identify efficiency opportunities, including short term trouble shooting, deliver projects using NCE tools, i.e. DMAIC/GSTD/SMED/VSM to continuously improve overall packaging line performance.

Develop and maintain packaging process capability understanding to drive performance and quality improvement initiatives. Key role in FI pillar to drive TPM implementation.

Guardian/enforcer of system standards, ensure compliance to specified requirements for packaging materials, finished pack quality, and to standard packaging line parameters. Improve system reliability (in collaboration with Maintenance) and package quality (in collaboration with Quality).

Managing packaging line / packaging changes.

 

Serve as Customer for capital projects, provide specification of requirements, support start-ups with involvement in FAT and SAT as appropriate. Serve as I&R liaison for packaging development, provide site leadership for testing, owner of packaging development integration to factory, ensuring quality and packaging lines performance as well as throughout the supply chain. Verify project deliverables for capital projects, development and productivity projects and provide feedback to design through appropriate qualification protocols verifying system performance. Capture relevant system/packaging changes, liaise with suppliers, Corporate and R&D functions, follow relevant business protocols. Maintain/Develop packaging specifications & CoC documentation.

 

Additional Responsibilities:

•  Drives technical matter with packaging suppliers. Participates in the selection of packaging material and equipment suppliers.

•  Responsible for maintaining vendor and industry relationships to keep abreast of current trends and to ascertain future trends.

•  Maintains/Develops packaging specifications & packaging safety documentation.

•  Ensures that