Senior ESG Engineer – Product Packaging
ConvaTec
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Pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch: Convatec is a global medical products and technologies company, focused on solutions for the management of chronic conditions, with leading positions in advanced wound care, ostomy care, continence care, and infusion care. With around 10,000 colleagues, we provide our products and services in almost 100 countries, united by a promise to be forever caring. Our solutions provide a range of benefits, from infection prevention and protection of at-risk skin, to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs. Group revenues in 2024 were over $2 billion. The company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index (LSE:CTEC). To learn more about Convatec, please visit http://www.convatecgroup.com
At Convatec, we’re transforming our business for the better. Better products. Better ways of working. And better ways of delivering for our customers and each other. We’re aiming for nothing short of excellence. Join us on our journey to #ForeverCaring as a Senior ESG Engineer – Product Packing, and you’ll do the same.
**About the role:**
Working within the Product Packaging Team and the wider **Packaging & Labelling** department you will play a crucial role in advancing sustainability initiatives, focusing on the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) aspects of packaging. This position typically involves a blend of **research, data management, strategy development, and compliance monitoring** to ensure that packaging practices align with sustainability goals.
**Your key duties and responsibilities:**
+ **Sustainability & ESG:** Develop and implement ESG packaging strategies, conduct Life Cycle Assessments, and track sustainability progress.
+ **Compliance & Quality:** Ensure packaging meets regulatory standards and enforce quality control procedures.
+ **Cross-Functional Collaboration:** Work with R&D, manufacturing, marketing, and quality teams to align packaging with product needs.
+ **Testing & Problem Solving:** Execute testing protocols, analyze data, and apply engineering tools like FMEA to improve packaging design.
+ **Industry Research:** Stay updated on sustainability trends and regulatory changes, ensuring our packaging remains competitive and compliant.
+ **Documentation & Reporting:** Maintain records, generate compliance reports, and create data-driven insights using visualization tools.
**Impact as a Senior Engineer:**
+ Lead complex projects that significantly impact operational results.
+ Set day-to-day operational objectives and mentor junior engineers.
+ Communicate effectively across departments, ensuring clarity in technical documentation and presentations.
**Skills & Experience:**
+ At least 3 years of experience in ESG, sustainability, or data analytics preferred.
+ Knowledge of ESG Principles, Value Engineering and Cost-Initiatives would be desirable.
+ Experience of Product & Process Validation activities.
+ Demonstrable experience of on-time delivery of complex technical projects and activities.
+ Building productive relationships with external parties (e.g. design houses and contract development and manufacturing organisations (CDMO’s).
+ Applying a range of statistical techniques incl. Design of Experiments (DoE) to product / process development activities.
+ Highly structured, ability to progress tasks in parallel, and proven problem-solving skills.
+ The ability to communicate effectively in Technical English (verbal and written) is essential.
+ Understanding of basic ‘graphic artwork development’ and printing techniques such as off-set litho, digital, flexography, gravure etc….
+ Highly computer literate i.e. Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint).
**Qualifications/Education:**
+ Education: Bachelor’s degree in sustainability, environmental science, business, or a related field.
**Travel Requirements:**
Position may involve travel up to 25% of the time, mostly within Europe but overseas travel is expected. Most trips will include overnight travel).
**Working Conditions:**
+ This may be based in any manufacturing site within ConvaTec business with a hybrid working structure.
+ There is no specific requirement for fixed days on site but project and department activities shall be supported in appropriate locations.
**Special Factors:**
ConvaTec is a multi-national company, a degree of flexibility in working day may be required when working with multi-international based personnel.
Our ambitions will bring the very best out in you. You’ll be pushed to aim higher and really own your work. You’ll be encouraged and supported to make things happen, too. It can be challenging. But, as the progress you make will help improve the lives of millions, it’ll be worth it.
This is stepping up to a challenge.
This is work that’ll move you.
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