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Mars UK • GBR-Berkshire-Slough | United Kingdom

Packaging Development Engineer (FTC 12 months)

Employment type:  Full time
Salary:  £42,000 – £50,000 per annum
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Job Description

Job Description:

Packaging Development Engineer

Location: Slough, UK, hybrid type (50% min on-site)
Salary: £42,000 - 50,000, annual bonus, benefits

Contract: 12-month fixed-term contract

As Packaging Development Engineer at Mars, you will support conceptual design and development activities, determine the sequence of development operations, and determine equipment and proof of principle requirements. Significant collaboration is expected with all engineers, designers, technicians, and managers within the breakthrough technology team and key stakeholders.


What are we looking for?

  • Ideally, Systems Engineering or Engineering/Technology or a related Engineering degree

  • Consistently meets or exceeds the standards and expectations of internal and external customers and consumers

  • Manage scale-up risk and the introduction of technology into the supply chain

  • Extensive experience in engineering technology development

  • Demonstrated process and packaging science, packaging engineering, machine design development, and design through virtual prototyping methods

  • We want someone who can work independently and be a team player


What will be your key responsibilities?

  • Direct leadership of key engineering development projects

  • Support the translation of technology from ideas into virtual and working proof-of-principle models

  • Support scale-up and transition of knowledge from the Global Packaging Machine Design team to third-party machine builders for scale-up to full-scale working machines

  • Innovation engineering development of new science and technology

  • Forming effective knowledge/technology teams (internal and external) to overcome hurdles to advance ideas and concepts


What can you expect from Mars?

  • Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.

  • Join a purpose-driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.

  • A strong focus on learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.

  • An industry-competitive salary and benefits package, including a company bonus.


Find out more about what Mars can offer you by visiting our Global Careers site: https://careers.mars.com/global/en

Mars is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable adjustments for individuals with disabilities, long-term health conditions, or who are neurodiverse during the application and recruitment process. To request reasonable adjustments, complete our Reasonable Adjustment Request Form here.

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Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Open to compressed hours
Sabbaticals
Enhanced maternity leave – 26 weeks at 90% pay
Enhanced paternity leave – 26 weeks at 90% pay
24 days annual leave + bank holidays
“Pawternity” leave
Pregnancy loss leave
Bank holiday swaps
Shared parental leave
Adoption leave
Family health insurance
Pregnancy support
Neo-natal leave
Faith rooms
Meditation space
Dog friendly office
Dog friendly co-working space
Annual bonus
Employee discounts
Cinema discounts
Referral bonus
Joining bonus
Cycle to work scheme
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Theme park discounts
Lunch and learns
In house training
LinkedIn learning license
Studying sabbaticals
Open to part time work for some roles

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4,000 In the UK

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