R&D Packaging Design & Simulation Engineer

Job description

R&D Packaging Design and Simulation Engineer (1C/1D)

Refreshment GDC -Colworth
WL1C/1D

MAIN JOB PURPOSE:


If you're looking for a great team and a challenging, innovative, fun and energetic work environment, you are at the right place. We believe that the passion of our employees is our strength, and this is what drives us towards outstanding performance.

Unilever's aim is to provide people the world over with products that are good for them and good for others. Our vision is to develop new ways of doing business, with the aim of doubling the size of our company while reducing our environmental impact. Our brands are trusted everywhere and, by listening to the people who buy them, we've grown into one of the world's most successful consumer goods companies. In fact, 200 million times a day, someone somewhere chooses a Unilever product.

The Foods & Refreshment (F&R) Division plays a major role in meeting the company's growth and sustainability ambition. The F&R Division consists of our Savoury Foods, Dressings, Ice Cream and Tea brands and is the global leader in these categories. Our key brands include Ben and Jerry's, Magnum Lipton, PG, Knorr and Hellmann's. Delivering superior innovations that are holistically designed for global rollout is critical for our success. The F&R team at Colworth is focused on global packaging design and innovation with strong links to the F&R teams based in the Netherlands and deploy centre around the world

This role is part of the global F&R Packaging Capability team led by the Refreshment Packaging Director. It reports to the Packaging Capability Manager and is based in the Global Design Centre (GDC) at Unilever Colworth site at Sharnbrook, Bedford, UK.

Our F&R Packaging Capability organization is charged with defining and driving best practice in technology, process, tools and techniques across Foods & Refreshment categories. The scope covers Digital Packaging, Packaging Excellence (how we do Packaging), Design Capability, Sustainability and Strategic Materials. Digital simulation is core to our Packaging design strategy.

The purpose of the Digital Packaging Engineer is to support categories in defining and developing new digital solutions to create, capture and use data to enable better decisions to be made and to help establish a shift in the way people think about the importance of data. A significant part of the role will be to help build the capability in this area through designing and conducting in-silico simulations. The role holder will work with the packaging Designers and Developers through the project life cycle to ensure robust data capture, workflows and the creation of new in-silico models where necessary to aid implementation.

This includes the virtual testing of pack concepts before tooling or manufacture; recommending design changes to optimizing packs; assessing a packs' design as suitable for use by the consumer and its compatibility with the supply chain. Working with the designers to create 3D concept designs and ultimately the technical drawings and use Computer Aided Design (CAD) to fine tune the designs for manufacture, whilst appreciating business priorities and act accordingly.

This is a cross category role working across all of Unilever's Foods & Refreshments, categories, our Digital R&D partners and IT Innovation.

JOB SUMMARY

· Support the F&R categories and provide direction to stakeholders in interpretation and decision-making using results of simulation and predictive analyses.
· Supporting the transformation of how Packaging Engineers and Developers create data, capture data and use data to make decisions. To help define the requirements for new digital solutions and to enhance decision making in the future.
· Work collaboratively with categories to define, develop, test and deploy new digital tools to enable data capture, data access/management, modelling and simulation.
· Build and develop the simulation Capability: Simulating manufacturing; simulating packaging tests; physical testing and validation; using CAD software and presentations.
· To create, develop and implement best practice in digital simulation (e.g. for briefing, managing, collating and interpreting feedback from consultants).
· Aid the Unilever community in the interpretation and decision-making using results of FEA analysis, mathematical models or material data.
· Facilitating a mindset and behaviour change across the Packaging community.
· Supporting initiatives aimed at educating and upskilling members of the packaging community to enable them to progressively exploit data analysis and modelling capability.
· Have material understanding and expertise in the key packaging materials used in the category (Including: Rigid plastics: PET PP and PE; Flexibles (e.g. pouches and flow wraps); Paper & board.
· To comply with the Unilever Code of Business Principles

KEY REQUIREMENTS:

· The role requires a genuine and enthusiastic team player, comfortable working within teams of mixed technical ability. These multicultural teams may well be at multiple locations.
· To have a proactive problem-solving nature with a tenacious attitude, firmness of purpose and a keen attention to detail, and have a strong self-motivation for accomplishment.
· Ability to handle multiple work streams.
· To demonstrate good communication skills. To have highly technical discussions with external consultants of software providers, supplier technical teams and mould makers, but also have the ability to converse with non-specialists, such as Packaging Technologists and Designers and to both interpret their requirements. To be able to successfully communicate complex technical issues and express results and solutions in a concise and readily understandable manner (simple and fit of purpose), using appropriate media.
· Build meaningful, longstanding professional relationships with a network of internal and external contacts.
· Have a broad understanding and appreciation of design process from concept to realisation, or some experience in one of these areas; Packaging, Design, Engineering or other Consumer led industries would be desirable in the applicant.
· Provide training material and training for other packaging team members in this expertise area.
· A minimum qualification of a degree in a relevant subject. A degree in Computer Science, Data Modelling & Simulation or Mechanical Engineering (or related engineering discipline) is likely to be most relevant (or Design/ Engineering/ polymer science) from an accredited college or university.
· Job Experience in Data Modelling / Simulation role (preferably FMCG Industry).Should be competent in one or more areas of numerical and computational simulation.
· Experience of one or both of the following tools: Finite Element analysis (FEA) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).
· Experience of one or more of the following analysis programs: Abacus, Radioss, Hyperworks, 3DS platform, Ls-dyna, Star-CCM+, Moldex3D, moldflow, Ansys/Fluent, Scripting, Unix, HPC usage, Minitab.
· Experience in 3D CAD modelling, particularly NX software.
· Experience validating virtual testing.
· Confidence to autonomously assess and use design, engineering and scientific judgement to define tailored approaches to projects and program.


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