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Huhtamaki is a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, enabling wellbeing and convenience. Our innovative products protect on-the-go and on-the-shelf food and beverages, ensuring hygiene and safety, and help prevent food waste.
We are committed to protecting food, people and the planet and are on the lookout for passionate and consummate professionals to join our growing team to help us deliver on our ambitious 2030 Strategy. We look for colleagues who Care, Dare and Deliver.
Huhtamaki’s North America business segment is a leading manufacturer of consumer goods packaging as well as tableware, cups, folding cartons, containers, trays and service ware for the foodservice industry and retail markets. Our product portfolio includes Chinet®, the leading brand of premium tableware. Huhtamaki North America with sales of $1.3B employs approximately 4,200 people in 18 manufacturing locations with its US Headquarters in De Soto, KS. The parent company, Huhtamaki Oyj, has its head office in Espoo, Finland. Huhtamaki Oyj is the #1 globally operating foodservice packaging and molding fiber company in the world.
We're looking for professionals to join our team of approximately 17,000 people in 34 countries. You'll think creatively about making our business and those of our customers' more effective and successful. You'll always be looking for new ways of working. And along the way you'll be making a difference to some of the world's biggest brands, by helping great products reach more people, more easily.
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Job Summary
This internship within Technology and Development allows for hands on experience supporting challenging product development projects. This is a unique opportunity to develop a diverse knowledge base in packaging, sustainability, and design through exposure to all aspects of the Paperboard T&D Project Engineer responsibilities and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
Essential Functions
- Utilize full scale testing lab to conduct product testing for qualification of new materials, development of new packaging structures, and root cause analysis on technical product issues.
- Support development of folding carton packaging from ideation through commercialization in a way that meets or exceeds customer expectations, meets cost and timeline targets, and runs efficiently through the manufacturing process.
- Develop proficiency in Artios CAD to design packaging. Create prototypes for customer review.
- Enhance project management and interpersonal skills by working with cross-functional teams to support the qualification of new materials for product improvement, cost saving, supply chain diversification, and sustainability driven initiatives.
- Effectively communicate technical project updates, testing results, and conclusions to key stakeholders.
- Develop fundamental knowledge of the paperboard product lines and converting equipment.
- Develop a diverse knowledge base of packaging through exposure to topics such as sustainability, regulatory compliance, and material science as it pertains to packaging.
Job Qualifications
Required
- Strong GPA. Enrollment in Bachelor of Engineering or Packaging program.
- Strong project management and organization skills, self-driven with the ability to work independently and in a team environment.
- High mechanical aptitude, creative design ability, and analytical approach to problem solving.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office products.
Join us to shape the future together!
What We Do
Huhtamaki is a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, enabling wellbeing and convenience. Our innovative products protect on-the-go and on-the-shelf food and beverages, ensuring hygiene and safety, and help prevent food waste. We embed sustainability in everything we do. We are committed to achieving carbon neutral production and designing all our products to be recyclable, compostable or reusable by 2030.
We are a participant in the UN Global Compact and EcoVadis has awarded Huhtamaki with the Gold medal for performance in sustainability. To play our part in managing climate change, we have set science-based targets that have been approved and validated by the Science Based Targets initiative.
With 100 years of history and a strong Nordic heritage we operate in 37 countries and 103 operating locations around the world. Our values Care Dare Deliver guide our decisions and help our team of around 18 000 employees make a difference where it matters. Our 2023 net sales totaled EUR 4.2 billion. Huhtamaki Group is headquartered in Espoo, Finland and our parent company, Huhtamäki Oyj, is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. Find out more about how we are protecting food, people and the planet on www.huhtamaki.com
