Packaging Industrial Designer

Job Title: Packaging Industrial Designer

Location: Leeds Office and R&D

Unilever is a global Fast-Moving Consumer Goods company with powerful brands like Dove, Axe, Domestos, Lux and Signal. Through our Brands we create products that make a positive impact on consumers lives whilst striving towards our Net Zero Carbon footprint ambition.

To maintain the contribution of world-class design to the success of our brands, the Deodorant Category has created exciting new roles in its Design Team. 

We are looking for a Packaging Design Engineer to join the team in Leeds, UK.

JOB PURPOSE

As a Packaging Design Engineer in Deodorants you will work across multiple innovation and capability projects reflecting our packaging and future technology strategies, to deliver brilliant and meaningful products that consumers love, whilst shaping our sustainable future.

You will support projects within cross functional teams and be responsible for engineering future packaging projects, new technologies and novel future formats, turning technically feasible concepts into mass manufacturable products.

By connecting functions, touchpoints, competencies and external partners, you will have significant technical impact on our packaging portfolio.

In order to deliver the greatest value for both the consumer and our brands, your job is to deliver design rigour and ensure that the brand’s design intent is met in a project’s outcome.

WHY JOIN UNILEVER DESIGN

Joining Unilever Design means contributing to an ambitious, high‑performing creative team focused on delivering impactful brand innovation. You will work in an agile, open‑minded environment alongside dedicated thinkers and doers who continually advance our ambitions across brand, people, sustainability, technology, and business growth.

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In Unilever, you will collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams and external partners in order to create value and meet consumer needs with convincing and meaningful creative solutions.

Main Responsibilities

Lead packaging engineering design work for key innovation projects from concept to manufacture, using Unilever best practice and design tools and methodologies.

Partner with internal and external teams to create engineering solutions to deliver the Brand / R&D ambitions.

Generate and refine structural packaging solutions using engineering tools (CAD, simulation, prototyping & testing) to develop and validate with rigour and speed.

Use 3D printing and prototyping technologies to bring design ideas to life and enable the technical testing of new ideas and solutions.

Support packaging workstream leaders in the technical development of components, gathering and interpreting quantitative data and insights to aid decision making.

Support the briefing process, collaborating and guiding the design delivery of external engineering and simulation agencies.

Create and manage CAD data in support of projects, creating detailed component designs, 2D drawings and robust component specifications, under guidance from senior engineers and packaging work-stream leaders.

Liaise with global suppliers and development partners to provide information, within strict data version control guidelines.

Support the design capability build programme – delivering engineering tools, processes and simulation capabilities used to ensure new packaging is landed in the market right first time.

Regularly contribute to cross category Design Communities of Practice in areas of specialist expertise.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in a Product Design or Engineering related discipline, with a good understanding of design for manufacture and manufacturing techniques.

Relevant experience in a design engineering role, ideally in the consumer goods business, supporting multi component packaging or device design within a corporate or agency environment.

Strong 3D CAD design skills with expertise in parametric solid and/or surface modelling; with good data management and version control. (We use NX, but experience in Solidworks, CREO etc would be welcome).

Experience creating and tolerancing 2D technical drawings and managing structured data.

Some experience of Finite Element tools (Abaqus). IM Simulation experience would also be advantageous.

Knowledge of moulded plastic packaging components, material properties, processing and manufacturing an advantage.

ABOUT YOU

A creative, logical, and analytical mind to generate innovative design solutions to technical problems.

A talent catalyst who inspires powerful multi-disciplinary teamwork and collaboration

Strong communicator and influencer, with a passion for High Performance

Willingness to learn, improve, and to develop new skills.

Have the Agility to handle multiple projects at the same time.

Proven project experience with ability to meet deadlines.

A love for Consumers, products, and an eye for detail.

Competencies

Passion for High Performance

Talent Catalyst 

What We Offer

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.

Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all. 

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities, and growing together for better business performance. We want to push boundaries, and have the flexibility needed to keep adapting in an ever-changing, more dynamic world. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. 

As part of your hiring journey, we are happy to support requests for reasonable adjustments, to improve your recruitment experience.

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