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**Position**: Packaging Technologist**Location**: Monterrey, Nuevo León**Summary**:- Responsible for developing, validating, and implementing new packaging products for finished goods based on customer requirements and plant guidelines.- Recognizes opportunities on raw material supplier's packaging to optimize costs and handling while maintaining quality.- Generate packaging information for the developing of new packaging designs and new packaging.- Support the correct follow-up of innovative and sustainable projects of the company.
**Major duties & Responsibilities**:**Support on New products developments**:- Responsible for developing, validating, and implementing new packaging products for finished goods based on customer requirements and plant guidelines.- Ensuring that packaging products meet set requirements and specifications.- Generation of packaging plant procedures, specs and standards for new products developments.- Cost packaging creation for new developments.- Define net weight and sizing for new developments.- Define correct configuration of stack pattern.- Assistance to validate the correct packaging in the new products trials.- Run trials to check packaging for suitability and testing for performance under various conditions.
**New packaging and packaging design developments**:- Business relationships with technical packaging suppliers.- Contact with cross functional teams, customer, and suppliers, to support topics related to design and new packaging.- Evaluating and selecting packaging items with suppliers.- Supply packaging information to generate primary and secondary labeling.- Review and validate packaging information in each primary and secondary labeling developed that involves design.- Sign and coordinate the correct process flow starting with the design development, contact with the supplier to obtain the mechanical plane until set up it in our ERP system.- On some occasions, attendance at packaging print runs.
**GPE, Optimize costs & Innovation**:- Recognizes opportunities on raw material supplier's packaging to optimize costs and handling while maintaining quality.- Support on the identification, developments, implementation and follow up improvement and/or cost savings/avoidance in packaging projects.- Evaluating and selecting new packaging suppliers.- Evaluating packaging proposals focused on the company aspirations as Sustainable packaging.
**Knowledge and Experience**:- Engineer with experience on food packaging at least 3 years.- Knowledge of print production and understanding of file setup and printing parameters.- Power Point and Excel preference.- Advanced English.EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITYGriffith Foods believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity