This position is a Co-op and runs from July - December

R&D Packaging Engineering Co-Op Overview:

Unilever offers vast and exciting career paths within R&D. Creating new innovations and technologies, and enhancing our existing brand portfolio – it’s all yours in Unilever’s R&D function. Bring your imagination and technical expertise to help develop superior products in an ever-evolving consumer marketplace.

A packaging engineer is generally expected to conduct the following work activities as part of a cross functional project team:

• Works closely with Brand managers to implement approved projects and meet agreed timelines.

• Remains current and up to date with Packaging Technologies.

• Looks to adapt similar or existing technologies in field to Unilever needs.

• Provides project timelines / tracking reports showing milestones, timing, and estimated completion.

• Establishes and executes technical specifications for Packaging components.

• Has the ability to communicate this information easily to upper management.

• Formulates and presents ideas for Cost Savings and Innovation in Packaging.

*Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Refreshments, Home and Personal Care products with sales in more than 190 countries. In the United States, the portfolio includes brand icons such as: Axe, Ben & Jerry’s, Breyers, Caress, Clear Scalp & Hair Therapy, Consort For Men, Country Crock, Degree, Dove personal care products, Fruttare, Good Humor, Hellmann’s, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!, Just for Me!, Klondike, Knorr, Lever 2000, Lipton, Magnum, Motions, Nexxus, Noxzema, Pond’s, Popsicle, Promise, Q-tips, Simple, St. Ives, Suave, Talenti Gelato & Sorbetto, TIGI, TONI&GUY Hair Meet Wardrobe, TRESemmé and Vaseline. All of the preceding brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Unilever Group of Companies.

Unilever employs approximately 8,000 people in the United States – generating approximately $8.5 billion in sales in 2014.

The Unilever Sustainable Living Plan (USLP) aims to double the size of Unilever’s business, while reducing its overall environmental footprint and increasing positive social impact. The USLP is a strategic response to the challenges businesses face operating in an uncertain and volatile world.

Unilever ranked number one in its sector on the 2014 Dow Jones Sustainability Index. The entire Unilever global factory network, as well as its U.S. non-manufacturing facilities, have achieved zero non-hazardous waste to landfill status.

• Undergraduate candidate with Junior status.

• Coursework in packaging engineering or other technically related field.

• Ability to execute a project and analyze research data/studies.

• Ability to deliver data to support insights, techniques and technologies for improvements.

• Ability to work under pressure in order to meet project deadlines

• Success interaction on cross functional teams

• Willingness to relocate

• Minimum GPA of 3.0

Unilever has a simple but clear purpose – to make sustainable living commonplace. They believe this is the best long-term way for the business to grow. On any given day, two billion people from around the world use Unilever products from iconic brands like Dove, Axe, Ben & Jerry’s, Lipton, Dollar Shave Club, and Knorr to look good, feel good, and get more out of life.