Ingénieur packaging/Ingénieure packaging

Fixed-term contract : 6 months – from April to end of September 2025

Evergeen Garden Care is the leading garden care company outside North America, producing high quality garden care products, with market-leading brands like Miracle-Gro, Fertiligene, Substral or Pokon in every market where we operate.

We deliver a full range of garden care products to gardeners in the UK, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Poland, the Nordics, Australia and New Zealand. Our focus is on developing the best-known brands and launching the most exciting and consumer-relevant innovations as we grow our new company.

General Summary

As a junior packaging engineer, you are responsible for participating in group packaging development projects and the improvement of existing packaging in our different product categories (fertilizer, compost, weedkiller, insecticide).

The main project thematics will be around :

• New product development (internal brand innovation, private label market extension)
• Packaging sustainability in preparation of Uk Extended Producer Repsonsability (UK EPR)
• Packaging quality support

Your main tasks :

• Define packaging brief & need with marketing
• Identify appropriate technical solutions that answer marketing brief
• Exchange with suppliers
• Select best technical solutions & test them
• Manage manufacturing trials with plants
• Manage packaging & finished good specifications and BOMs (Bill Of Materials)
• Approve new packaging on time, on cost, on specification
• Participate & report work progress to project teams

The junior packaging engineer must successfully interact with multifunctional & multi-cultural teams: group R&D, Marketing, Procurement, Regulatory and Supply Chain in a marketing driven consumer goods company.

All these activities must be managed in a pro-active manner to assure that environmental, product, and safety is not compromised.

Minimum Requirements

• Master 2 degree in Packaging or Mechanical industry
• First experience 1/3 years in a consumer good company in a packaging role is welcome
• Knowledge of specifically flexible plastic, papers, rigid plastics used for consumer goods packaging
• Must be fluent in French (C1 minimum) & English (B2 minimum)
• Ability to use current PC-based software (Microsoft Windows, Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Outlook, etc.)
• Comfortable with working on ERP systems (SAP)
• Demonstrates "practical" spirit
• Display team commitment
• Work efficiently, well-organized, task-oriented
• Use technical and functional expertise