Product Technology Lead

Your Responsibilities

• Day to Day oversight of Hamilton based technical team and related resources.

• Understand the end use of products, determining fitness-for-use of materials, and effectively advancing the specification development of new and derivative products.

• Identify critical uncertainties, designing targeted experiments, rapidly building new prototypes, defining, and assessing fitness-for-use, and driving commercialization and scale up.

• Work closely with the product groups to identify and optimize the resonator performance to meet critical final product parameters to enable game changing products in the market.

• Understand and evaluate performance of relevant competitive product alternatives.

• Drive process and device improvements through characterization, test, design of experiments, data analysis and simulation.

• Drive the development project and refinement of new test methods and characterization techniques in partnership with other functions.

• Obtain intellectual property protection - patents, trade secrets (if required).

• Personal safety and the safety of others; maintain a safe and incident-free working environment.

• Maintain materials database, including formulations, materials, and compliances.

What We're Looking For:

• Proven leadership experience in a manufacturing environment, ideally in packaging, chemicals, or a related industry.

• Strong people management skills, with experience leading cross-functional teams.

• Track record of implementing business improvement projects, including cost reduction and efficiency enhancements.

• Strategic thinker with strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.

• Demonstrated aptitude in materials science, product design, food safety and customer filling applications.

• Working knowledge of plastic flexible packaging manufacturing processes such as extrusion, flexo-printing, laminating and film conversion

• Proven track record of identification and valuation of polymers and additives and translating ideas into significant commercial success

• Possesses excellent interpersonal skills to influence company and business strategy and decisions, to motivate high performance and negotiate win-win scenarios

•  Effectively communicate, both verbally and in writing, to affect decision making and keep the organization informed (English proficiency is a must); ability to author technical reports and to make presentations to various internal groups within Sealed Air

• Business acumen and ability to collaborate effectively across functions, regions, and business divisions to drive results and ensure goal delivery

 What’s In It for You?

• A leadership role where you can make a real impact

• Opportunities for growth and career development

• A collaborative & supportive work environment

• The chance to drive innovation & efficiency across the site

Our Core Values:

At Sealed Air, we live by these values:

• Integrity – We do what’s right, always.

• Determined – We push boundaries and drive success.

• Innovative – We seek smarter solutions and continuous improvement.

• Collaborative – We work together to achieve greatness.

Please Note:

You must have New Zealand work-rights to be considered for this job.