Job Title Qualification Engineer, Packaging Qualification Lab

Function: Packaging

Location: Clark, New Jersey

Reports Into: Director, Packaging

Who We Are:

For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted its energy, innovation, and scientific excellence solely to one business: Beauty. Our goal is to offer each and every person around the world the best of beauty in terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity and responsibility to satisfy all beauty needs and desires in their infinite diversity.

At L'Oréal Operations, we create innovative, inclusive, and sustainable beauty together with our business partners by designing, developing, sourcing, manufacturing, and distributing over 6 billion products globally every year. We support over 36 brands across four L’Oréal divisions. We are consumer-oriented, and we act responsibly all along the value chain.

We are looking for an Engineer to join our Operations Packaging Qualification Team in our Clark, New Jersey facility. In this role, the Packaging Qualification labs team is a dynamic, collaborative, professional group that is part of the packaging team. Their mission is to ensure the quality of packaging conception, supplier capability, and consumer experience through risk assessment, testing, and technical expertise. They perform testing in our packaging labs on new launches, formula renovations, and packaging changes to support the business. 

What You Will Do:

• Conducts key tasks to validate packaging for new launches, formula renovations, and packaging changes. 
• Performs risk analysis based on previous testing, knowledge, and experience and makes recommendations to stakeholders (packaging and development).  Uses risk assessment tools to analyze worldwide data.  
• Performs hands on lab work including filling, evaluation, and/or packaging test methods such as drop test, decoration testing, sun testing, etc. 
• Manages project timeline and multiple priorities.  Collaborates with stakeholders to prioritize testing and support project timing. 
• Communicates testing results, alerts, and proposes solutions to support business priorities and consumer experience.  
• Leads transversal projects as defined to improve lab efficiency, simplification, safety, quality, or agility and to bring value to the métier.  
• Participates in training/onboarding of newcomers and partners. 
• Interacts with worldwide community to share results, exchange best practices, and improve worldwide guides and methods. 

What We Are Looking For:

• A completed Bachelor’s degree in Packaging Engineering or a related engineering discipline is required
• 1-3 years of proven experience in package engineering or Operations Development (required)
• Experience in cosmetics, consumer goods or related field preferred
• Knowledge of packaging and raw materials, transformation and industrialization process preferred
• Understanding of chemical and physical reactions 
• Strong PC skills; MS Office, PowerPoint, and data base systems 
• Excellent communication skills, ability to relate clear results and well-constructed action plans. 
• Detailed oriented, good organizational skills to manage the documentation, materials, and information. 
• Technical curiosity, Adaptability to change, capacity to challenge, thirst for knowledge, and ability to manage multiple projects.
• The ability to be onsite, in the office as this is an essential function of the position (required)
• Must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time, permanent, ongoing basis, without the need for sponsorship now or in the future.

What’s In It For You:

• Competitive Benefits Package (Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, Pension Plan)
• Hybrid Work Policy (3 days in Office, up to 2 days Work From Home)
• Flexible Time Off (Paid Company Holidays, Paid Vacation, Vacation Buy Program, Volunteer Time, Summer Fridays & More!)
• Access to Company Perks (VIP Access to L’Oréal’s Internal Shop for Discounted Products, Monthly Mobile Allowance)
• Learning and Development Opportunities (Unlimited Access to E-learnings, Lunch & Learn Sessions, Mentorship Programs, & More!)
• Employee Resource Groups (Think Tanks and Innovation Squads)
• Access to Mental Health & Wellness Programs

Don’t meet every single requirement? At L'Oréal, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and innovative workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the qualifications listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways! You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse environment. We would love to find out more about you as a candidate and do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status.

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