PackagingTechnician

**Job Title:** Packaging Technician **Business Function:** R&D **Location:** Leeds **JOB PURPOSE** The Deodorants category is a key part of the Unilever Personal Care Business Group. With a family of Power Brands – Rexona, Dove, Axe – which are critical growth drivers of the company. We are looking for a Packaging Technician**** to help shape the future of deodorant packaging for some of the world’s most recognisable Personal Care brands. This is a hands-on technical role at the heart of innovation—translating ideas into robust, scalable packaging solutions that deliver outstanding consumer experiences while embedding sustainability, quality and speed to market. **RESPONSIBILITIES** * Support packaging development across innovation and renovation projects, from concept through to industrialisation * Provide technical packaging testing support to cross‑functional project teams, ensuring designs meet performance, quality and manufacturing requirements * Define functional specifications, risk assessments (including FMEA), and validation strategies for components and systems * Lead packaging trials, lab testing, pilot runs and factory line trials, including working with external partners * Analyse test data using statistical and digital tools and make recommendations to improve design robustness * Collaborate with Design and Simulation teams to provide physical test data to validate and calibrate virtual models. * Support initiatives with suppliers globally to improve, harmonise and qualify aerosol and deodorant packaging components * Contribute to capability building and continuous improvement, including development of new test methods and design rules **ALL ABOUT YOU** * A technical education or experience in Mechanical Engineering or Packaging Engineering. * Experience in working with packaging materials and technologies is preferable (e.g. metals, plastics, aerosols, complex assemblies). * Confidence working with technical drawings, tolerances, and test data. * Expe