Principal Packaging Engineer (m/f/d)

• Full-time

Company Description

As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all – while minimizing the use of land and other agricultural inputs. Syngenta Crop Protection keeps plants safe from planting to harvesting. From the moment a seed is planted through to harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects and diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat and cold. Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland.

Health Promotion Switzerland recognizes Syngenta's commitment to the health and well-being of its employees and awards the "Friendly Work Space" label to all its Swiss sites. At Syngenta, employee health and well-being are key to the company.

Job Description

Role purpose:

As a Principal Packaging Engineer, you will be responsible for developing innovative, cost-effective packaging solutions that comply with regulations and meet customer needs. You will leverage material knowledge and manufacturing technologies to translate design briefs, generate new concepts, and ensure adherence to legal requirements for product transport and safety.

Accountabilities:

• Ensuring all operations under direct control comply with Syngenta Health, Safety & Environment policies and conform to Syngenta legal standards.
• Fostering external collaboration to build and apply advanced science and technology to solve challenging business targets and deliver the best product experience for customers.
• Efficiently managing personal workload while coordinating with team members to optimize resource utilization and maintaining regular communication with stakeholders to ensure alignment on project timelines.
• Applying operational excellence tools to identify inefficiencies, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and contributing to process improvements.
• Coordinating specific project components, collaborating with team members to ensure timely completion and monitoring progress against defined milestones, identifying potential issues, and proposing solutions.
• Independently defining packaging qualification protocols, executing qualification studies, recommending acceptance criteria and training others on qualification procedures.
• Developing and implementing local packaging quality control procedures, including fill & pack knowledge application, and maintaining elements for packaging in master data management systems.
• Investigating quality issues, implementing corrective actions, and maintaining product compliance.
• Supporting quality audits.

Qualifications

• Degree in Packaging Engineering or equivalent professional qualification and/or relevant experience
• Understanding of packaging development processes and knowledge relevant to the role across the industry with ideally experience of 3-5 years (successfully led pack development projects)
• English: C1 Level
• German: beneficial
• Strong and reliable level of knowledge & skills in cross-functional stakeholder management at the regional level

Additional Information

We offer a variety of financial and non-financial benefits including:

• We offer a position which contributes to valuable and impactful work in a stimulating and international environment
• A superb working environment with an open culture and diverse workforce where new ideas are always welcome
• The opportunity to work with and learn from highly qualified and experienced employees and gain scientific and technical excellence
• Learning culture (Together we Grow) and wide range of training options
• You will profit from a competitive pension fund plan, attractive bonus system, onsite doctor, fitness room, canteen, and other benefits (Family friendly initiatives, Child and Family allowance…)

Please send your complete application with CV, motivation letter, diploma and work certificates

Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.