Packaging Technologist

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose.

Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Research & Development

In the Packaging Department, we're full of highly skilled talents, who are continually seeking out new opportunities by using science, our entrepreneurial flare and our fearless innovation to develop and enhance our existing portfolio, never compromising on quality or performance.

We do the right thing, always, by ensuring we act with responsibility and integrity, by complying with regulatory legislation across the globe, whilst ensuring our products are safe for our consumers and are to the highest quality.

The size of our organisation means you'll have the opportunity to learn and work in different functions within Packaging, giving you exposure to different disciplines, teams and environments.

About the role

As a Technologist within our Emerging Science & Innovation team you’ll dive into the world of creating consumer-focused, technically superior products while honing your scientific skills. This role is an opportunity to take charge of critical projects, from ideation to execution, and collaborate with a spectrum of talented professionals.

Your responsibilities

• Conduct laboratory-based development work to deliver projects, meeting KPIs, milestones, and benchmarks.
• Expand your technical expertise across our product portfolio and apply this knowledge in your daily tasks.
• Enhance Packaging lab practices, contributing to the innovation of procedures and documentation.
• Troubleshoot and solve packaging application related issues.
• Keep abreast of EPR requirements and submissions of packaging tonnages sold to local PROs.

The experience we're looking for

Packaging / Science or Engineering related degree/diploma; Minimum

An innate ability to work collaboratively, coupled with the initiative to drive progress individually.

Remarkable problem-solving prowess, with a talent for data analysis and technical troubleshooting.

2 Years practical experience in a similar packaging role.

Exposure to rigid plastics, injection, and stretch blow molding.

Exposure to flexible labels, pressure-sensitive labels, and corrugates.

New project development and packaging productivity improvements.

The skills for success

Task execution under pressure, business acumen, commercial awareness, objective setting, accountability, consumer insight, packaging, product lifecycle management, business partnership, collaboration and partnership building, adaptability to changes in technological development plans, ability to challenge the status quo and propose improvements, and innovation processes.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way.

We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans, we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognize, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognize that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; color, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.