Packaging Lab Technician

Overview

We believe great people build great brands. Brown-Forman offers opportunities to grow both personally and professionally, solve problems, seize opportunities, and generate bold ideas in a team-focused environment where you can bring your best self to work.

Total Rewards at Brown-Forman are designed to recognize bold ideas, ethical decisions, and winning results. Compensation includes base salary, holiday bonus, incentives, and a premium employee experience. We support continuous learning and development with customized, award-winning programs for every stage of your career.

Design and conduct experiments according to B-F and Industry standards: tensile testing, compression, color spectrophotometer, transportation vibration simulator, severe environment simulations, and other packaging tests. Collect and interpret data, provide recommendations for new product development, generate lab reports, and contribute to continuous improvement of laboratory testing criteria and methods. Create packaging specifications for new items where appropriate and record/observe data for long-term research.

Create and update packaging label specifications.

What You Bring to the Table

• Associates or bachelor’s of Science Degree with 1 - 2 years of laboratory experience; or 4 – 6 years of combined education and experience.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret data and provide recommendations.
• Basic understanding of packaging materials (glass, PET, corrugated, paper).
• Problem-solving skills with a focus on diagnosing and solving problems.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to develop effective working relationships with a broad range of business associates.
• Ability to plan, prioritize, and complete work with speed and accuracy within established time frames.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to perform and adapt in a rapidly changing environment; willingness to travel 5% of the time.

What Makes You Unique

• Packaging Science and/or Laboratory Background.
• Knowledge of Glass Packaging Testing and Manufacturing Processes.
• Strong information technology aptitude.

We believe great people build great brands and that there is Nothing Better in the Market than a career at Brown-Forman. You will grow both personally and professionally, solve problems, seize opportunities, and contribute bold ideas within a collaborative environment.

Brown-Forman Corporation is committed to equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment. It provides full and equal employment opportunities to all employees and potential employees without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, veteran status, age, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, or any other legally protected status.