What are the responsibilities and job description for the Packaging Engineer position at Diageo?
Job Description
Job Title: Packaging Engineer
About Us
With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.
Join us to build a career worth celebrating.
Which company will you join?
From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of outstanding character, and in 250 years, nothing has changed. We’re the world’s leading premium alcohol company! Our brands are industry icons including Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Bulleit and Buchanan's whiskies, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our success is thanks to the strength of our people, in every role. It’s why we trust them with our legacy and why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve. Our ambition is to build the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the very best people!
At Diageo, our purpose is to celebrate life everywhere, every day. To do that, you will join an organization that is passionate about customers and consumers, and proud of what they do. Diageo teams constantly set high goals and then try hard to exceed them. We are also an incredibly diverse organization, and we value each and every one’s talent and personality.
About The Role
Maintain compliance through Diageo commercialization process and collaborate with project managers, conversion sites and multi-functional team members to drive packaging development.
Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.
Rewards & Benefits Statement
We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package.
Diversity Statement
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.
We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, and more.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.
If you require a reasonable adjustment, please ensure that you capture this information when you submit your application.
Worker Type
Regular
Primary Location:
Plainfield Tech Centre
Additional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date
2026-04-23
Salary Range
Minimum Salary:
$67725
Maximum Salary
$112875
At Diageo certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual incentive payment and stock awards. US-based employees are eligible for healthcare benefits, retirement benefits , short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellness benefits and industry leading parental leave, among others. (Benefits/perks listed may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Diageo and the country where you work.) The salary range displayed is the salary range for the role’s primary location.
Job Title: Packaging Engineer
About Us
With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.
Join us to build a career worth celebrating.
Which company will you join?
From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of outstanding character, and in 250 years, nothing has changed. We’re the world’s leading premium alcohol company! Our brands are industry icons including Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Bulleit and Buchanan's whiskies, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our success is thanks to the strength of our people, in every role. It’s why we trust them with our legacy and why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve. Our ambition is to build the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the very best people!
At Diageo, our purpose is to celebrate life everywhere, every day. To do that, you will join an organization that is passionate about customers and consumers, and proud of what they do. Diageo teams constantly set high goals and then try hard to exceed them. We are also an incredibly diverse organization, and we value each and every one’s talent and personality.
About The Role
- Delivering programs on time, in full, and on budget while hitting COGs targets and maintaining quality is paramount.
- Sitting within the North American Technical organization, the Packaging Team acts as a business partner to both NA Supply and ISC as well as Innovation and Brand Change, Procurement and Conversion.
- This role consists of working with the project team to deliver technical packaging support through the life cycle of the program!
- This role will develop technical specifications, complete specification workflows for approval, prepare and issue specifications to vendors.
- They will also complete packaging Testing Plans to support the Innovation & Brand Change project pipeline, Supplier Onboarding and Conversion packaging quality concerns.
- Packaging Lab activities will take place in the Plainfield Packaging Laboratory.
- As part of the end-to-end supply chain, NA Supply has an extensive network of wholly-owned and Third-Party Operation sites across the US and Canada.
- In North America, Diageo owns and operates a network of manufacturing, bottling, distilling and warehousing sites.
- NA Technical is an organization of 150 people with a (USD)23M budget, operating across several locations within the US and Canada.
- From these locations NA Technical leads the Technical Equity for Diageo NA Supply and Demand across the Diageo portfolio.
Maintain compliance through Diageo commercialization process and collaborate with project managers, conversion sites and multi-functional team members to drive packaging development.
- Support a variety of programs across innovation, brand change, and supply optimization and deliver packaging from initial scoping through commercialization.
- Develop technical specifications for packaging components.
- (shippers, dividers, labels, closures, glass & PET containers, and other components).
- Conduct the technical development/due diligence of packaging components, inclusive of creation/routing/approval of any/all package specifications and handle specification workflows and issuance to vendors.
- Complete Testing Plans specific to project details, including the completion of a Testing Report.
- Complete testing to ensure functional acceptability, assure regulatory and product compatibility compliance and life cycle robustness of new package components.
- Develop and implement packaging trial and qualification plans.
- Consistently demonstrates pride and commitment to Diageo, behaves authentically, focuses on finding solutions, and develops positive relationships across the organization.
- Drive the quality of our packaging quality from concept to consumers.
- 4 year Bachelor's Degree or equivalent, preferably in Package Engineering or related Technical Field, with shown knowledge of product commercialization.
- Candidate must have excellent interpersonal ability, working in a team setting, communicating with partners and Vendor contacts and working on different projects at the same time.
- Packaging Materials knowledge (shippers, dividers, labels, closures, glass and PET containers)Microsoft Office software, Adobe Acrobat software (PDF bundling).
- TOPS or CAPE software knowledge.
- SAP and specification development knowledge is a plus.
Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.
Rewards & Benefits Statement
We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package.
Diversity Statement
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.
We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, and more.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.
If you require a reasonable adjustment, please ensure that you capture this information when you submit your application.
Worker Type
Regular
Primary Location:
Plainfield Tech Centre
Additional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date
2026-04-23
Salary Range
Minimum Salary:
$67725
Maximum Salary
$112875
At Diageo certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual incentive payment and stock awards. US-based employees are eligible for healthcare benefits, retirement benefits , short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellness benefits and industry leading parental leave, among others. (Benefits/perks listed may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Diageo and the country where you work.) The salary range displayed is the salary range for the role’s primary location.
Salary : $67,725 - $112,875