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Packaging Design Manager
Location: Slough
Contract: 12-months parental cover
As Packaging Design Manager at Mars, you will support conceptual design and development activities, determines the sequence of development operations, and determines equipment and proof of principle requirements. Significant collaboration is expected with all engineers, designers, technicians and managers within the breakthrough technology team and key stakeholders.
What are we looking for?
- Ideally, Systems Engineering or Engineering/Technology or related Engineering degree
- Consistently meets or exceeds the standards and expectations of internal and external customers and consumers
- Manage scale-up risk and introduction of technology into supply chain
- 5+ years in engineering technology development
- Demonstrated process and packaging science, packaging engineering, machine design development and design through virtual prototyping methods
- We want someone who can work independently and be a team player
What will be your key responsibilities?
- Direct leadership of key engineering development projects, leading a team of 8
- Support the translation of technology from ideas into virtual and working proof of principle models
- Support scale-up and transition of knowledge from the Global Packaging Machine Design team to third party machine builders for scale-up to full scale working machines
- Innovation engineering development of new science and technology
- Forming effective knowledge/technology teams (internal and external) to overcome hurdles to advance ideas and concepts
What can you expect from Mars?
- Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- A strong focus on learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
About Us
Mars is a family-owned business with more than $35 billion in global sales. We produce some of the world’s best-loved brands: M&M’s®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, BEN’S ORIGINAL®, and COCOAVIA®. Alongside our consumer brands, we proudly take care of half of the world’s pets through our nutrition, health and services businesses such as Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, AniCura, VCA™ and Pet Partners™. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our 140,000 Associates into taking action every day towards creating the world we want tomorrow.
