Packaging development engineer

The Role

🚀 Ready to Shape the Future of Packaging? Join a Global FMCG Powerhouse! 🌍

Are you passionate about innovation, sustainability, and cutting-edge packaging solutions? Join our inclusive and forward-thinking international team in Poznań as a Packaging Development Engineer (Fixed-Term Contract)! Backed by a dynamic global FMCG business and 25,000 talented colleagues worldwide, you’ll lead impactful packaging development projects from concept to launch.

In this role, you’ll be at the forefront of developing and qualifying new materials, formats, and suppliers. You’ll coordinate machine run-ability trials, conduct packaging acceptance tests, and manage projects end-to-end—ensuring excellence in timing, budget, and stakeholder collaboration. Plus, you’ll drive standardization, reduce complexity, and continuously improve both new and existing packaging solutions.

Principle Accountabilities

• Acting as an interface between central functions, material suppliers, machine suppliers, and production facilities.
• Develop and design new packaging formats including patent checks and the qualification and specification of all needed materials and drawings.
• Lead multiple and/or complex packaging related projects from the idea until full implementation and scale up (incl. set up of all measurements for packaging materials).
• Co-ordinating and conducting packaging material run-ability trials and qualifying materials according process for production.
• Support the internal engineering function on machine projects in specifying all packaging related areas, approval of format specific drawings, ordering of machine run up materials and ensuring that the run in process can run as planned both in-house and at machine suppliers. Final approval of the format on the machine
• Preparing transport instructions considering the factory machines, supply chain and suppliers for different packaging materials focusing on standardization and cost effectiveness

Skills and Experience Required

• Technical degree or equivalent in the field of packaging development, material development, mechanical engineering or equivalent.
• Fluency in using PC / MS-Office skills, especially Excel & Power Point
• Good level English language skills.
• High interpersonal skills enabling to work in various cultural contexts and pronounced capabilities of teamwork.
• Flexible, reliable and accurate, even in a frequently high-pressure environment; self-organization.
• Willingness to travel (30%)

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.

As a matter of policy, Imperial Tobacco or its subsidiaries never requests or requires payment as part of any recruitment process.