Overview

Position Title: Packaging Development

Company: Mars

Location: Batley, UK

Job Description:

With the breadth and scale of our Petcare businesses we have a unique opportunity and the potential to create benefits for Pets and our business through data is huge and we need to seize this opportunity now. We began our work to leverage these more strategically to power our ecosystem in 2018 and the Data & Analytics team is the core team at the Petcare level incubating and guiding these efforts.

Responsibilities: 

  • Adapt pack process conditions as required to ensure that all packs run efficiently and meet required semi-finished and finished product specifications, Quality standards and efficiency targets
  • Initiates, coordinates and executes line trials at appropriate supply locations to confirm that quality attributes and performance metrics are achieved.
  • Coordinates the creation of high quality prototypes to gauge consumer desirability, influence teams and support customer collaboration.
  • Utilize best practice packaging experience to deploy validated packaging formats across the network with minimal disruption to operations and minimal expense costs to the business

Reqirements:

  • 2+ years’ experience working on packaging projects
  • Ability to work effectively in cross functional teams and with external suppliers
  • A BS or advanced degree in Engineering, Chemistry, Food Science, or related technical field

About Mars

To operate the Course mix/Compound packing lines is a front line role that is the key in delivering safe and efficient (lean) production in our largest volume area of the site and associated equipment in order to Draw back system, Flaking and Coarse Mix /Compound Packing in a timely manner at optimum throughput.