R&D Dispensing Expert

R&D Dispensing Expert

Location: Lohne, DE Opfenbach, DE Port Talbot, GB Blackburn, GB Kutenholz, DE Frankenthal, DE Pamplona, ES Lidkoping, SE Dinklage, DE La Genete, FR Kristiansand, NO Voghera, IT Kambo, NO Velky Meder, SK Flitwick, GB Reinach, CH Turku, FI Rebkowska, PL Oakham, GB Randers, DK Moirans, FR Theesen, DE Mellrichstadt, DE Etten-Leur, NL Besancon, FR Milton Keynes, GB Ellough, GB Ettlingen, DE Rushden, GB Corby, GB Otwock, PL Cardedeu Barcelona, ES Osnago, IT Offranville, FR Venturina, IT Bremervorde, DE Sant Cugat, ES Campo Real, ES Beccles, GB Gent (BMS), BE Wetteren, BE Timisoara, RO Kruszwica, PL Lubien, PL Deventer, NL Orio Litta, IT Mullsjo, SE Montpont, FR Bouxwiller, FR Neumunster, DE Celle, DE Saint Georges, FR Eke, BE Market Rasen, GB La Defense, FR Sirone, IT Marolles, FR Cusset, FR Plenmeller, GB La Roche, FR Prievidza, SK Deeside, GB Norwich, GB Finnentrop, DE Leamington Spa, GB Kyjov, CZ Firenze, IT Poznan (FBS), PL Bellignat, FR

Department: R&D/Innovation Management

Full-time or Part-time: Full-Time

Job Type: Employee

Shift: On site

Accelerate the possible by joining a winning Amcor team that’s transforming the packaging industry and improving lives around the world.

At Amcor, we unpack possibility through our innovative and responsible packaging to provide solutions that benefit our customers, our people and our planet. More than 10,000 consumers worldwide encounter our products every second and rely on us for safe access to food, medicine and other goods. We value their trust by making safety our guiding principle. It’s our core value and integral to how we do business.

Beyond this core principle, our shared values and behaviors unite us as we work together to elevate customers, shape lives and protect the future.

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This position requires up to 30% travelling if not based in Lohne or Zell (Mosel) - Germany.

Job Purpose

As the R&D Dispensing Systems Expert, you will play a pivotal role at the forefront of innovation within the R&D Dispensing Expert Center of the Global Rigid Business. You will shape the technical strategy and execution of dispensing platforms, working across H2/H3 development projects with the freedom to design both the product and its manufacturing concept. You will join a highly specialized, global team of 5 researchers located in Europe, driving innovation across Healthcare, Homecare, Food, Beverage, Beauty, and Wellness. The team’s mission is to deliver cutting‑edge dispensing solutions that balance performance, cost efficiency, and sustainability, while accelerating the path from concept to industrialization. This role drives front‑end innovation, from defining roadmaps and validating designs to ensuring smooth handover to development centers. You’ll transform market needs and sustainability goals into high-performing dispensing solutions, with significant autonomy and impact, and the opportunity to advance your career within the world’s largest plastic packaging supplier.

Key Responsibilities

Lead early‑stage R&D dispensing systems development:

• Define project roadmaps, feasibility, and validation plans for H2/H3 dispensing solutions.
• Ensure smooth handover to development centers for industrialization.

Drive technical excellence and innovation:

• Develop injection‑molded dispensing concepts with focus on performance, cost, and sustainability.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to improve designs.

Collaborate across teams and geographies:

• Work closely with sales, manufacturing sites, and cross‑functional R&D teams.
• Build relationships with external partners, including research institutions and technology providers.

Support strategic planning and resource management:

• Assist in defining deliverables, budgets, and resource allocation for dispensing system projects.
• Prepare technical reports, proposals, and presentations for senior management.

Role Requirements

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, or similar.
• Strong, hands‑on expertise in dispensing systems and injection molding.
• Structured, results‑oriented, and comfortable with ambiguity in early innovation phases.
• Strong communication skills in English (German or French is a plus).
• Collaborative mindset with the confidence to challenge, propose, and decide.

About Amcor

Amcor is the global leader in developing and producing responsible consumer packaging and dispensing solutions across a variety of materials for nutrition, health, beauty and wellness categories. Our global product innovation and sustainability expertise enables us to solve packaging challenges around the world every day, producing a range of flexible packaging, rigid packaging, cartons and closures that are more sustainable, functional and appealing for our customers and their consumers. We are guided by our purpose of elevating customers, shaping lives and protecting the future. Supported by a commitment to safety, over 75,000 people generate $23 billion in annualized sales from operations that span over 400 locations in more than 40 countries.

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