R & D Packaging Technician – West Midlands – Midlands – £20-27k Basic + car + benefits

Company: Harrison Scott Associates
Apply for the R & D Packaging Technician – West Midlands – Midlands – £20-27k Basic + car + benefits
Location: West Midlands
Job Description:

This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies on an ongoing basis. More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature. It is therefore in your interest to email your CV, as a Word document, depending on your sector, to:

  • Head of Packaging recruitment – greg@harrison-scott.co.uk
  • Head of Print recruitment – neil@harrison-scott.co.uk
  • Head of Paper recruitment – gary@harrison-scott.co.uk
  • Board level, account management, and all levels of sales vacancies – george@harrison-scott.co.uk

Our divisional heads will then email your CV internally to the consultant who specialises in your exact sector. For example, a category of packaging is cartons, a category of print is print management. In fact, we have over 30 specialist categories. Our specialist consultant will contact you if we have a live vacancy that matches, or in the near future as soon as a good match to your skill set and experience becomes available.

Overview

This position reports into the Packaging R&D Team and focuses on technical packaging development to support growth and innovation targets.

Responsibilities

  • Idea generation for both short term and long term innovation
  • Concept / sample development to show new packaging formats, materials, technologies
  • Assisting and conducting packaging trials (line trials, transit trials, leaker testing, abuse testing, materials testing)
  • Due diligence requirement completed to required standards at each stage of the R&D process (specifications, pallet plans, cutter guides)
  • Communication of status of projects to wider team on a regular basis and trial reporting to project teams and management
  • Develop standard practices, ways of working and processes across Packaging R&D team
  • Manage the packaging specification database, cutter guide library and pallet plan library
  • Approval of artwork and liaison with Graphics department

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Posted: June 4th, 2026