Packaging Engineer

Diageo•Plainfield, IL

3d•Onsite

About The Position

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future. Join us to build a career worth celebrating. From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of outstanding character, and in 250 years, nothing has changed. We’re the world’s leading premium alcohol company! Our brands are industry icons including Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Bulleit and Buchanan's whiskies, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our success is thanks to the strength of our people, in every role. It’s why we trust them with our legacy and why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve. Our ambition is to build the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the very best people! At Diageo, our purpose is to celebrate life everywhere, every day. To do that, you will join an organization that is passionate about customers and consumers, and proud of what they do. Diageo teams constantly set high goals and then try hard to exceed them. We are also an incredibly diverse organization, and we value each and every one’s talent and personality. This role consists of working with the project team to deliver technical packaging support through the life cycle of the program! This role will develop technical specifications, complete specification workflows for approval, prepare and issue specifications to vendors. They will also complete packaging Testing Plans to support the Innovation & Brand Change project pipeline, Supplier Onboarding and Conversion packaging quality concerns. Packaging Lab activities will take place in the Plainfield Packaging Laboratory.

Requirements

4 year Bachelor's Degree or equivalent, preferably in Package Engineering or related Technical Field, with shown knowledge of product commercialization.
Candidate must have excellent interpersonal ability, working in a team setting, communicating with partners and Vendor contacts and working on different projects at the same time.
Packaging Materials knowledge (shippers, dividers, labels, closures, glass and PET containers)
Microsoft Office software, Adobe Acrobat software (PDF bundling).
TOPS or CAPE software knowledge.
SAP and specification development knowledge is a plus.

Responsibilities

Maintain compliance through Diageo commercialization process and collaborate with project managers, conversion sites and multi-functional team members to drive packaging development.
Support a variety of programs across innovation, brand change, and supply optimization and deliver packaging from initial scoping through commercialization.
Develop technical specifications for packaging components. (shippers, dividers, labels, closures, glass & PET containers, and other components).
Conduct the technical development/due diligence of packaging components, inclusive of creation/routing/approval of any/all package specifications and handle specification workflows and issuance to vendors.
Complete Testing Plans specific to project details, including the completion of a Testing Report.
Complete testing to ensure functional acceptability, assure regulatory and product compatibility compliance and life cycle robustness of new package components.
Develop and implement packaging trial and qualification plans.
Consistently demonstrates pride and commitment to Diageo, behaves authentically, focuses on finding solutions, and develops positive relationships across the organization.
Drive the quality of our packaging quality from concept to consumers.