We are global, we are impacting the lives of millions every day, we are making a difference!  

At Amcor we are inspired to change the packaging industry and are taking on the aspirational challenge to make all our products recyclable or reusable by 2025. Through our products and global footprint, we are in a unique position to truly make a difference in the packaging space. Our products impact the lives of millions of people across the globe every day from food, beverage, pharmaceutical, medical, home- and personal-care, and other essential products. Amcor is a thriving S&P 500 organisation listed both on the NYSE (AMCR) and ASX (AMC) with US$13 billion in sales. We have a proud history dating back to the 1860’s and come a long way from a single paper mill based in Melbourne to becoming the global leading packaging company. Today, Amcor is an international organisation empowering its 50,000 employees in over 40 countries and across 250 sites.   

Will you be next to join our journey towards a more sustainable future? At Amcor we are always looking for talented and passionate individuals who are motivated to make a difference. Working at Amcor means you will have a unique opportunity to be a part of an organisation that is committed to providing sustainable packaging solutions. To find out more about our commitment to sustainability and about Amcor, visit www.amcor.com.  

Job Description

Position Overview:

In this role, you will be responsible for managing the design, testing, and qualification of PET bottles and preforms for moderate to large-scale product development projects. As a key member of our team, you will provide technical expertise, innovative design solutions, and mentorship to support personnel.

As a member of our Beverage Product Development team, you will be expected to collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that our products meet the highest standards of quality, reliability, and functionality. In addition, you will manage communications and report outs with both customers and internal stake holders and will also assist in improving Amcor development processes and standards.

You will be recognized as an expert across product lines and/or technologies and play a vital role in driving Amcor’s sustainability initiatives through product development.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties: 

• Provides technical leadership for product design or product changes of a complicated nature in order to ensure products meet cost, reliability, schedule, and performance integrity requirements.  Recognized as an expert across two or more fields.
• Collaborates with cross functional team members to determine cost, platform and resource requirements to bring products to market on time, correct the first time, and within budget.
• Works autonomously on moderately complex projects.
• Establish performance specifications and tolerances for new products considering filling and handling conditions beyond defined customer specifications.
• Document project progress utilizing PLM system
• Create and track project R&D timelines and project budgets.
• Coordinate design reviews with other project engineers, customers, designers and vendors.
• Specify technical and operational requirements and order prototype tooling and change parts for new product development.
• Direct process lab activities; coordinate with lab technicians, work to acquire change parts, materials, tooling, and support injection/blow to facilitate the manufacture of unit containers and publish process lab work requests and related sampling plans and results
• Direct quality lab activities: establishing product acceptance criteria, determine test protocols and test conditions, assess process capability and specification compliance for a production environment.
• Identify & coordinate corrective action plans, including design reviews, process improvements and quality systems.
• Assist manufacturing facilities with start-up and validation of new products.
• Act as the lead technical liaison across various account assignments.

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related field
• 6-8 years of experience in packaging product development and experience managing multiple, simultaneous high priority projects.
• Knowledge of injection molding and/or stretch blow molding machinery and process with PET plastics.
• Experience in Polymer Science Packaging Development is desirable.
• Knowledge of property enhancing material additives (not limited to but including barrier & U.V protection) for various packaging requirements.
• Experience in statistical analysis and process control and stability.
• Computer skills including Microsoft Project, Excel, Word, Access and PowerPoint
• Communication skills to understand, influence, drive, and negotiate with internal and external customers. Causes action/understanding through others
• Ability to manage complex projects from conceptualization through commercialization
• Travel 25%; Concentrated in Spring & Fall.

Competencies:

Amcor Leadership Framework Competencies

Core Competencies:

• Customer Focus
• Learning on the Fly
• Interpersonal Savvy
• Drive for Results

3-5 Applicable ALF Competencies:

Process Management

Innovation Management

Influencing Others

Dealing with Ambiguity

Relationships:

• Commercial and Operations stakeholders.
• Corporate R&D
• Upper management, peers, Design team, and Project Management team.
• Internal relationships with quality assurance, program management, operations engineering and supply chain.
• External relationships with clients and vendors.

ADA Requirements:

Physical Requirements

☒Normal Vision

☒Distant Vision

☒Near Vision

☒Hearing/ Listening

☒ Sitting

☒Talking/Speaking

☒Hand/Finger Dexterity

☒ Walking

☒Standing

☐Stooping

☐Pushing/Pulling

☐Bending

☐Kneeling

☐Climbing

☐Lifting (amount 50 pounds)

☐Carrying (amount 50 pounds)

☐Driving- Forklift

☐Lifting (amount < 50 pounds)

☐Carrying (amount < 50 pounds)

☐Driving – Automobile/truck/van

Work Environment : Office Environment

The information contained herein is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties, responsibilities, skills and/or abilities.

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Our Expectations

We expect our people to be guided by The Amcor Way and demonstrate our Values every day to enable the business to win. We are winning when:

• Our people are engaged and developing as part of a high-performing Amcor team
• Our customers grow and prosper from Amcor’s quality, service, and innovation
• Our investors benefit from Amcor’s consistent growth and superior returns
• The environment is better off because of Amcor’s leadership and products

Equal Opportunity Employer/Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

Amcor is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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