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Senior Packaging Technologist

Senior Packaging Technologist

Danone Utrecht

What is required?

  • Bachelor or master's degree within packaging, industrial design, innovation engineering or similar
  • At least 5 years' experience with packaging development
  • Experience with design applications and human centric design
  • Excellent command of the English language
  • Able to lead a project team
  • Problem solving mindset; entrepreneurial

What will you get?

  • Starting from €4.760 gross p/m
  • 40-hour workweek
  • 30 vacation days
  • Premium free pension
  • Contribution health insurance
  • Remote working possible

What will you do?

  • 60% Working on projects
  • 10% Reading relevant literature
  • 10% Exploring interesting startups and new technology
  • 10% Creating presentations and reports
  • 10% Answering emails

This vacancy has been created based on interviews with employees to help you get a realistic preview of the job.

Vacancy

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As a Senior Packaging Technologist at Danone, you are responsible for realizing packaging innovation, renovation and productivity projects. You are part of a project team with people from different disciplines. Together with your project members, you divide and execute the responsibilities and tasks such as writing validation plans, desiging packaging or exploring new packaging technologies and suppliers. It depends on the project how much you will contribute: it is important that you can show entrepreneurship if needed. You work on projects with various subjects, but at the moment there is a big focus on innovation, sustainability and recycling. To realise packaging innovation and renovation, you foster collaborative internal and external partnerships to enable the global packaging team to identify, imagine, create, and validate packaging solutions.

You work with different project teams on multiple projects, so you are part of different teams. If you have bigger projects, you can divide subjects between you and other Packaging Technologists. The packaging innovations you work on, always concern the Specialized Nutrition business unit in Danone.

If you get excited leading the packaging transformation into the next frontier of technologies, then this is the job for you.

Working week

Marco Engels
Senior Packaging Technologist

On an enjoyable day I have different types of tasks. After a project meeting, I contact suppliers and work on solutions concerning packaging challenges. I like it when I experience that my contribution is valuable to others and to the project.

On a less enjoyable day I have to take a step back instead of a step forward. Something does not turn out the way I expected it to, so I have to present the current situation in a project meeting.
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Firsthand experience

You are working on developing recyclable packaging. How do you proceed?

You will be accountable for packaging breakthrough innovation. From gathering insights and opportunity identification, to exploration, materialization and validation into the company.

Nowadays, recyclibility and sustainability are very relevant and important topics. You work on multiple projects which are related to these themes. You work on multiple projects related to this topic. You have a lot of meetings with your project team in which you discuss possibilities, risks and challenges. You also run a lot of validation tests with the packaging. For example, you have to make sure what size the packaging can be, and what the options are for transportation. You contact the factory to discuss how many samples you need and when you need them.

Growth

Danone Nutricia Research can offer you a career where you can choose your own path, with many opportunities to develop yourself. Your growth path is not fixed, which gives you the opportunity to create your own path in Danone based on your development, skills & interests, and the business situation. As inspiration you could think of the following steps when working as a Packaging Technologist

Packaging Technologist
Senior Packaging Technologist / other discipline within Operations

Working at Danone

At Danone Nutricia Research, science is at the very heart of their nutrition and health commitment. They are the global research and innovation organisation behind Specialized Nutrition, focused on early life nutrition and medical nutrition.

View company profile of Danone
  • R & I Specialized Nutrition in Utrecht
  • Globally active
  • 63% / 37%
  • Average age: 35 years
  • 700 employees in Utrecht
  • More than 100.000 employees worldwide

Colleagues

Linde Floris - Junior Project Leader Future Concepts – Human & Essential Milks Specialized Nutrition

Why did you decide to work for this company?
While studying nutrition science I always found infant nutrition the most fascinating. I really wanted to work in this field, putting science into practice and I especially wanted to work for Danone as I liked it’s dual purpose.

What was your previous job?
Consultant in Regulatory affairs; ensuring food labels were compliant with legislation.

What do you do in your spare time?
I love to go for walks with my dog, read, play field hockey, go horseback riding and travel the world in my holidays!

Clémentine Dejax - Food Scientist

Why did you decide to work for this company?
The values of the company really speak to me: striving for sustainability and health. I also like to work abroad, and Danone has made this quite easy since it is a worldwide company.

What did you study?
Food Biochemistry & Process

What do you do in your spare time?
I like doing sports, cooking, reading, playing the piano, travelling and meeting up with friends.

Ron Berends - Clinical Study Manager

Why did you decide to work for this company?
I wanted to move forward in my career and saw the Danone vacancy for Clinical Study Manager. This matched well with my experience, but had a lot of new responsibilities.

What was your previous job?
Senior Clinical Research Associate at PPD

What do you do in your spare time?
Spending time with my kids; and bouldering, preferably in the Fontainebleau area in France.

Jewe Schröder - Senior Process Technologist

Why did you decide to work for this company?
I find processes itself very interesting and I wanted to work in an international environment.

What was your previous job?
Post-doctoral researcher

What do you do in your spare time?
Rowing

Johan de Vogel - Senior Scientist

Why did you decide to work for this company?
Danone is a nice company with a good mission and a healthy balance between scientific work and working on products that make a difference for our consumers and patients with regard to quality of life.

What was your previous job?
Postdoc Maastricht University

What do you do in your spare time?
Going for walks, moutainbiking, watching movies, cooking and if I have time left: reading books

Svetlana Epifanova - Global Packaging Specifications Manager

Why did you decide to work for this company?
Danone is a company with great morale and values. It is people-focused, while at the same time focusing on launching products to the market that can actually help our consumers.

What did you study?
Bachelor of Science: Bio-Medical Science at the University of Amsterdam, specialization in patient-oriented research. Master of Science: Food Safety at Wageningen University, specialization in toxicology.

What do you do in your spare time?
Hiking, cuddling with my cats, yoga, singing, bodypump and playing the piano

Helene Chandran

Why did you decide to work for this company?

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