Senior Packaging Development Engineer

The Role

Principle Accountabilities

• Act as the technical interface between central functions, factories, material suppliers, and machine suppliers, ensuring alignment and timely issue resolution.
• Develop and qualify packaging materials and components, including drawings, specifications, patent checks, and sustainability compliance (PCR content, ISCC mass balance, recycle-ability).
• Lead complex packaging projects end-to-end, from concept through industrialisation and scale-up, ensuring readiness for production and quality standards.
• Plan, coordinate, and execute run-ability trials for packaging materials and formats, analyse performance, and validate materials according to internal qualification processes.
• Troubleshoot and optimise the machine–material interface, demonstrating autonomy in identifying root causes, designing tests, and implementing solutions across lines and factories.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of forming and packing machinery, driving efficiency, waste reduction, and material optimisation initiatives

Skills and Experience Required

Engineering background with strong mechanical or packaging-related experience in large-scale production environments (FMCG preferred).

Hands-on experience with packaging materials, ideally including board, films, and understanding of machine–material interactions.

Pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset with creativity and resilience in problem-solving. - Knowledge of sustainability requirements, ideally including PCR materials, ISCC licensing/mass balance principles, and packaging recyclability.

Fluency in English and Polish, with the ability to communicate clearly across functions and with suppliers.

Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint) and willingness to learn new tools and methodologies.

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.  Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

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