Packaging Technologist

Welcome to Haleon. We’re a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we’ve grown, evolved and are now entering an exciting new chapter – one filled with bold ambitions and enormous opportunity.

Our trusted portfolio of brands – including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum® – lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.

Now it’s time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose – to deliver better everyday health with humanity – at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture.

Job Purpose

The packaging technologist is responsible for pack design and specification service for products supplied regionally. This is achieved by interfacing with sites, procurement, suppliers, pack change managers and covers design activities associated with NPIs, product transfers, validation, market requests, and site changes ( including procurement driven changes to the supply base).

Additionally, for KL site’s products, to ensure technical inputs yield a robust process thereby delivering the highest quality product in a safe manner assuring a product that delights our customers including but not limited to people capability development, formulation, starting materials, packaging components, equipment, process and testing.

Key Responsibilities

1. Be the packaging subject matter expert or ‘go to’ packaging person. Provide expertise on product packaging material, conversion process, printing technique and emerging technology
2. Provide technical leadership or technical advice

• Lead and or / be part of a multi-disciplinary or cross functional team for engineering to technical troubleshoot, root cause analyse, investigation and resolve packaging related product issues at the site, support product complaint investigations and packaging related deviations
• Provide guidance, coaching and technical knowledge to site team. During routine gemba in operations, highlight to the Technical Services Lead on any plant management issues, process which may have a potential impact to product quality or supply
• Work with suppliers to define individual packaging component specification and define packaging functional testing to confirm design suitability ( component interaction, distribution , performance)

1. Conduct packaging process understanding or trial as needed,

• Perform Design of experiment (DOE) on new packaging material specifications to understand the optimal working parameters.
• Apply detailed stastistical analysis to forecast trends to deliver a robust packaging process and continuous improvement proposals and reduce the cost of waste.
• Perform packaging trial as needed, manage packaging material used in the trial exercise per the governing SOP
• Provide packing technical support for machine line trial to qualify packaging platform/ system based on Haleon standards and requirement

1. Responsible for accurate and timely reporting, maintenance of data in the sustainability and value engineering live tracker,or others as entrusted.
2. Ownership and maintenance of data related to packaging design including creation of technical specifications and drawings and developing packaging component standards
3. During lifecycle management of the product,

• Define critical process parameters (CPP) and Critical Quality Attributes (CQA), document the Product Control Strategy (PCS) and work with operations management to ensure the PCS is embedded in batch instructions and SOP
• Ensure that if any risk is identified, it is properly mitigated prior to the execution of the Process Qualification ( Stage 2 of PQ).
• Responsible for Packaging Process Validation : generating the plan,prepare the protocol and execute process validation for new products, assess the need for revalidation, analysis and report.
• Demonstrates First Line Leader behaviours. Supports and drives Zero accident culture in the shopfloor by promoting EHS behaviour, support ergonomic or process safety improvements by implementing mitigations in manufacturing, cleaning activities that possess safety risks.

Qualification

• Tertiary qualifications in science or related such as engineering, technical discipline
• Preferably with Institute of packaging diploma or packaging specialization
• Requires specialist knowledge in packaging process, components, specifications, packaging equipment and plant. Has experience working with manufacturing sites. Requires thorough appreciation of validation principles, EHS and regulatory ( Pack compendia, ICH) requirements

Minimum related experience

• Experience in related packaging function
• Has knowledge of GMP requirements at manufacturing site and experience in technical, product ownership, product lifecycle management
• Demonstrates First Line Leader behaviours
• 2 years working experience
• Troubleshooting, process and packaging improvement

Job Posting End Date

2026-08-27

Equal Opportunities

Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture, where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected – all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. It’s important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.

During the application process, we may ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. This information ensures we meet certain regulatory and reporting obligations and supports the development, refinement, and execution of our inclusion and belonging programmes that are open to all Haleon employees.

The personal information you provide will be kept confidential, used only for legitimate business purposes, and will never be used in making any employment decisions, including hiring decisions.

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