Want your expertise to be taken seriously? As a Packaging Safety Senior Associate at Reckitt, you’ll have the freedom to find your own way to protect our customers (and our business).
Packaging Safety Senior Associate
Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire
Competitive Salary & excellent benefits package
You will be responsible for evaluating the safety of new and/or changed direct and indirect product contact packaging as part of innovation and non-innovation projects for Nutrition, Health, and Hygiene business units while monitoring the safety of existing packaging portfolio. You’ll:
- Liaise with Packaging R&D and Regulatory teams in ensuring proper documents from suppliers are obtained
- Design and align with Packaging R&D the appropriate testing to prove safety by identifying the correct extraction solution or product simulant, time-temperature condition based on actual product application and intended use
- Establish and/or improve Reckitt internal safety standard for packaging used in Nutrition, Health, and Hygiene portfolios
- Generate safety report with sound acceptance criteria and analyse the results against internal Reckitt safety standards’ and against applicable regulations’ limits. Interpret and share the results with cross-functional team with recommendation on pack size, shape, format, etc. that fit within the limits of safety.
- Support product filing or notification to external regulation body with safety report and/or toxicological exposure assessments when needed.
- Investigate further detected non-compliance through supplier collaboration
- Work closely with cross-functional teams globally to ensure packaging safety assessments are incorporated into the overall project timeline and scope
- Lead/Support the creation and maintenance of packaging chemical footprint database of known and emerging substances of concern
- Serve as SME to provide recommendations with regards to safety in the establishment and improvement of standard operating procedure in the use of Post-Consumer Recycled (PCR) materials.
You’ll succeed because…
..You’ll have in-depth understanding of various packaging material structure / composition, formats, technologies, and product-packaging interaction that affect safety, You’ll have:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher degree in Packaging Science, Chemistry, or related field
- Experience in food/ pharma or relevant health, hygiene business, with role specific to Packaging Safety:
- Experience with conduct of safety assessments
- Knowledge and experience of contaminants monitoring
- Risk management and mitigation – identify risks, conduct root-cause analysis, and establish mitigation plan
- Stakeholder management – tailor-fit communication to different stakeholders (peers, leadership team, cross-functional team) to engage and obtain support, and assure stakeholders that proper actions are being taken to manage risks
- Exposure to regional or global matrix, multinational, culturally diverse, dynamic, cross-functional teams based in different locations / time zones
You’ll love it because…
…you’ll get to make an impact like never before. You’ll be responsible for your own projects – we can’t wait to hear your ideas. The products you help us get out there will make people’s lives better. Our iconic brands will provide an incredible platform for you. And our dynamic, ownership-driven culture will help bring the very best out of you, every day.
Equality
At Reckitt, we recognise that in real life, great people don’t always ‘tick all the boxes’. That’s why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don’t meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. Come and join a team whose purpose is to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner and healthier world.
All qualified applicants to Reckitt will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.