Description: Working as part of a cross functional team, you lead RDQ activities to complete packaging design and packaging deployment for innovation/growth projects and productivity projects across multiple geographies with an emphasis on delivering the desired consumer experience. You will independently coordinate technical work for projects in line with Research, Development & Quality, marketing and manufacturing requirements, effectively communicating status and risks, and coordinate projects to determine appropriate packaging specification information using sampling and supplier management and pilot-plant and factory trials in accordance with good manufacturing practice and HACCP requirements. In this role, you will also develop activities such as packaging design and specifications, scale up, commissioning, etc., and plan for the effective use of resources including the use of external agencies and suppliers. To succeed in this role, you will use your understanding of equipment design and manufacturing processes to ensure that packaging specifications are determined with excellence. You will be accountable for stakeholder management and influencing decisions based on conclusions derived from the analysis and interpretation of results; develop and leverage connections both internally and with the external technical community; and create intellectual property to drive competitive advantage. In this role you\xe2\x80\x99ll be responsible for a variety of projects focused on sustainability, innovation, and quality of packaging (plastics, cartons, corrugated materials). What you will bring: A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge in packaging development and/or packaging deployment, ideally within fast moving consumer goods or consumer packaging goods environment
Good understanding of packaging material technologies with proven record of technical deliverables - minimum of 5 years in packaging field.

• Leading teams and influencing cross-functional teams
• Planning and delivering multiple priorities
• Proactively identifying complex technical or business problems and creating and implementing solutions
• Influencing senior and cross-functional stakeholders verbally and in writing, including writing technical reports
• Championing for consumer needs
• Technical curiosity and collaborative mindset

What extra ingredients you will bring:

• Result-Oriented Personality
• People Oriented Leadership style (focus each team members on personal development and growth, identifying and helping to remove barriers to execution)
• Structural thinking and problem-solving skills, Technical Rigor
• Business Savvy and Organizational agility
• Innovation management
• Worker will be working on-site. This position does not offer remote work.
• Prefer food industry experience or product development experience within food industry.
• Looking for candidates who have current experience within packaging design, process and/or equipment w/5 yrs experience.
• Candidates with SAP & PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) experience are preferred.

Responsibilities are not limited to above mentioned description and may require performing a variety of lab activities and other tasks and duties as per business requirement. Job Type: Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months Salary: $35.00-$40.00 per hour Ability to commute/relocate:

• Toronto, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Packaging Field: 5 years (required)
• SAP: 5 years (required)
• PLM (Product Lifecycle Management): 5 years (required)
• packaging design / process / equipment: 5 years (required)
• Food industry: 5 years (required)