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Packaging Development Specification Engineer at Thai Union

Food PackagingPackaging developmentSustainabilityValue Engineering

This is Thai Union

World’s most trusted seafood leader. Healthy Living, Healthy Oceans. Dedicated to sustainability & innovation.

Our client Thai Union Group Europe, a global FMCG company with multiple affiliates across EMEA, is a subsidiary of Thai Union Ltd., a global seafood business with more than 35,000 employees worldwide and its headquarter located in Bangkok. The company owns some of the world’s largest seafood brands – Petite Navire, Parmentier, Mareblu, John West, King Oscar are well known examples, but also has private label capabilities.
Besides the sustainability strategy SeaChange 2030, innovation is one of the Group’s major strategic priorities to achieve growth ambitions.
To accelerate innovation in Europe, Thai Union Europe has recently launched a state-of-the-art Innovation Hub in Wageningen, The Netherlands. The hub drives development for the Ambient Seafood business, focusing on consumer-driven projects, crossmarket strategies, and End2End project management, following the “Fewer, Bigger, Better” principle. The team consists of around 15 people working on product development, consumer science, nutrition, project management, and packaging development.
The Innovation Hub works closely with the Global Innovation Centre based in Bangkok, Thailand. To further strengthen the packaging team Thai Union Europe is searching for a proactive and passionate Packaging Development Specification Engineer.

A few of your tasks

  • You will ensure the conformity of the packaging database and the specifications on completeness and correctness (Sustainability data, certificates  supplier data, trial reports, Palletization).
  • You will contribute to building reference specifications, covering technical and quality.
  • You will ensure all packaging colleagues contribute to database,  divide responsibilities, lead follow-up sessions and track actions.
  • You will pro-actively contribute to in&external quality audits in which packaging database is used.
  • You will pro-actively work on optimizing tools, processes and templates linked to the Pack Database.
  • You will work closely with colleagues from factories, Supply Chain, Quality, Procurement, IT and also with  packaging suppliers.
  • You will deliver packaging development in projects, with focus on renovation and cost-saving projects and work therefore closely within project teams with suppliers, factory, procurement, quality,  marketing.

What is your background?

Bachelor or Master degree in Packaging Technology/Engineering or an equivalent

A few experience in packaging engineering, development and specification

Working experience in the food industry is preferable

Working experience in multinational environment with several production locations

Good verbal and written communication skills, English is required, French would be an asset

Who are you?

You are pragmatic, with perseverance and diligence. A good analyst who is able to quickly adapt to the business and his perceptions.

You are a strong communicator: you can adapt yourself quickly to new and different situations, read the behaviour of other people, compromise to reach agreement, and resolve conflicts. A strong communicator can do so within all levels of an organization.

You are structured and foresighted: you will need this to identify matters in advance and to bring projects to a successful conclusion.

You are decisive and task-oriented: a setback does not throw you off balance and you maintain the overview. you are patient and persistent and you finish what you start.

What’s in it for you?

A challenging, independent position with a professional and forward-looking organisation that is growing rapidly

International working environment with a driven team of professionals in a pleasant and informal working atmosphere

Space for personal development and growth with the opportunity to become manager of junior packaging developers

An attractive salary and good terms of employment

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