- Cape Town, South Africa
- R&D
- 144455
- No
Overview
This 2 Years contractor role has responsibility to work with the Packaging Manager on projects assigned to them in SSA market. This role will work in Foods Packaging development across Productivity & Sustainability initiatives, will support in validating & creating specfications to procure, produce, and ship Snacks and Foods products for manager review for approval and manage low / Medium complexity packaging development activities in guidance with the manager. The associate will work closely with packaging teams, suppliers, manufacturing facilities to test and commercialize packaging components where assigned.
Projects:
- VE Bread Packaging
- VE Legumes Packaging
- VE Maize Packaging
- VE Pasta Packaging
- VE Rice Packaging
- VE Wheat Packaging
- New supplier qualifications
- EPR implementation
Responsibilities
- Execute packaging projects for the Essentials Category
- Execute packaging major projects under Productivity & Sustainability agenda and build future pipeline along with manager
- Prepare SOPs and Design of Experiments for quality execution of projects in guidance with the package manager as per pepsiCo requirements
- Ensure compliance to TSG, SFTS processes , Documentation
- Influence stakeholders – GP, Operations, Quality Control for achieving results
- Create and maintain unambiguous packaging specifications that are compliant with PepsiCo R&D best practices.
Qualifications
- Sc, B.Eng. degree in material, chemical or pacakging related field
- 3 – 5 year in a Technical or R&D role within a manufacturing environment preferred.
- Effective interpersonal, Influencing and communication skills with a proactive and innovative approach to problem solving and new design implementation.
- Demonstrated technical, analytical and project management skills, with the ability to plan and prioritise workloads.
- Good understanding of R&D and product development disciplines, as well as regulatory requirements is desireable. Fluent in English and Computer Skills. MS:Word, Ms Excel
“PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer in line with the Employment Equity Act”