Packaging Technologist - Irlam, United Kingdom - Kingsland Drinks

Kingsland Drinks

Verified Company

Irlam, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Packaging Technologist to join our team based in Irlam, Manchester. This is a permanent, full time position, working 40 hour per week, Monday - Friday.

Kingsland Drinks is a well-established premier independent UK supplier of wine and spirits specialising in providing a complete category solution.

Using our consumer understanding and drinks experience, we provide innovative, bespoke solutions to become the partner of choice as we create value for our customers.

Working at Kingsland, a company that is employee owned, means that you can suggest ideas and innovative ways in how we, as a collective run our business.

Our most important stakeholder is our members (employees), who have also been key to our success.

We have built on our heritage, with a family ethic, and always tried to encourage a positive can-do culture that encourages individual responsibility.

We have always valued our members contribution and we recognise that the success of Kingsland has only been possible with everyone's valued contributions.

Our key objective when we decided on the next step on the journey for Kingsland is for our business to continue to grow and develop and provide security for all our stakeholders.

We strongly believe we have created a great legacy that we want to securely hand this on to the next generation and beyond, so the future of the business remains in its own hands.

We want Kingsland Drinks Group to be a place people enjoy coming to work and a business our members feel proud of.

What does this corker of a job entail?

To perform audits at Kingsland
To effectively communicate at all levels
To ensure all Artwork Checks are completed
To report any nonconforming packaging to suppliers and follow up corrective actions and return of stock
To liaise with the Engineering/Production Teams
To decide whether downtime is due to packaging or equipment failures
Project work / investigative work
To control nonconforming packaging products in accordance with the documented procedure
To coordinate trials of nonconforming packaging
To assess incoming packaging materials against specifications
To provide Packaging support and assistance to Operations
To carry out project work as directed by Packaging Manager
To ensure that all packaging specifications are up to date
To assist in the checking and approval of all packaging pilot samples
To organize and oversee production trials to ensure the suitability of new packaging materials
To liaise with Finance to charge and recover costs from suppliers for nonconforming packaging
To be involved in obsolescent packaging materials

Key Ingredients

New incumbents would be expected to possess at least 5 O'levels/GCSEs, including passes in Maths and English.
Proven track record of successfully working with packaging materials from a technical viewpoint
Good administration skills are essential.
Must have the ability to communicate at all levels.
Must have the ability to maintain a high level of discipline.
IT skills to support and enhance performance.
Proven track record of team working and continuous improvement objectives.
Ability to make reasoned decisions and strength of character to stand by them
Ability to autonomous and selfmotivated

This job comes with a full bottle / glass of benefits

Highly competitive salary
Generous holiday entitlement that increases with length of service
Company day at Christmas, to share with your nearest and dearest
Annual profit share based on company KPI's
Huge discounts on wine and spirits in our company shop
Flexible working options
Life assurance cover
A generous thankyou gift if you 'recommend a friend' to work with us too. Lots of people work alongside their loved ones at Kingsland.
Wellbeing resources, including Mental Health First Aiders and access to an EAP with free counselling.
Your wellbeing is a top priority, and there's lots of support at Kingsland.

Wellbeing App to help support your mental health
Health Checks (diabetes/blood pressure, stop smoking advice etc.)
Training and progression opportunities open to all, including fully funded apprenticeships.
Involvement with New product development (Wine / Spirit tasting)
Onsite free car parking
Electric Vehicle charging

Local Community involvement