Packaging Development Engineer

Salary up to £45,000 depending on experience.

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Hybrid working 4 days/week on site

Overview Join our dynamic Packaging Development Group!
As a Packaging Development Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in developing cost-effective, environmentally compliant packaging and toting solutions. You will support various divisions within the company, ensuring smooth manufacturing, assembly, and delivery to our customers.
Projects are run at a rapid pace with lots of opportunities for variety in the workload and an expectation of self-management of time and workload. Projects take place across multiple sites and locations within the Renishaw group.

Responsibilities

Innovative Design: Create packaging solutions that adhere to the packaging directive, minimise volumes and weights, and optimize material usage.
Cost Reduction: Focus on reducing product costs, quality costs, and shipment volumes.
Sustainability: Design for circularity and sustainability.
Supplier Collaboration: Liaise with packaging suppliers and their design teams.
Change Management: Control and issue packaging changes within the Renishaw change mechanisms.
Product Testing: Conduct thorough packaging product testing.
Toting Design: Design toting solutions for internal and external piece part transfer.
Cross-functional Liaison: Work closely with external suppliers, internal purchasing, and vendor assurance teams on new and existing designs.

Requirements

Degree in a design-based subject/HNC-ONC with relevant experience
Experience in design/production environment
Full driving license – multi-site working but based at our HQ near Wotton-under-Edge

Desirable requirements

NX Experience
Practical hands-on experience
Arden Impact experience
Benefits
When you join Renishaw, we're committing to your future career. That's because we believe in developing our people's skills and promoting them internally. We also offer a benefits package that's highly desirable; including a 9% non-contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, *subsidised onsite restaurants and *coffee shops, free parking, *car sharing scheme and *24 hour fitness centres. ( not available at all sites).
We also want to promote a healthy work-life balance as much as possible, so we have introduced a hybrid working policy which allows for a combination of home and office based working depending on the nature of your role. xrexnqw We also offer a variable working programme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Life Assurance policy of 12 times annual salary, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced maternity pay subject to qualifying criteria, Health Cash Plan, the option to join Renishaw Health Trust (Aviva) and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.