Packaging Engineer
Oostakker, BE, 9041
Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future? If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.
INTRODUCTION
At Service Market Logistics (SML), we strive to deliver exceptional services to our customers across all Volvo Group brands. Our mission is to ensure the highest possible parts availability, delivery precision, and quality worldwide.
In our region, we operate the Supply Planning, the Central Distribution Center (CDC) in Gent, the Support Distribution Centers across Europe, and the Service Centers. We focus on agility, adapting swiftly and smartly to meet our customers' needs.
Welcome to the CDC Gent – The Beating Heart of Volvo Group Spare parts
With 120,000 m² and more than 8 million order lines per year, the Central Distribution Center (CDC) in Gent is the largest warehouse in the Volvo Group. Powered by over 800 brilliant and engaged team members, we ensure the timely and high-quality delivery of spare parts across the globe—for all our brands: Volvo Trucks, Volvo Construction Equipment, Penta, Volvo Bus, and Renault Trucks.
Your Mission: Drive impact through improvement – right at the heart of logistics
As a Packaging Engineer, you are a member of the warehouse engineering team - our engine for continuous improvement and future readiness. You develop new, tangible packaging solutions, balancing many parameters such as safety, quality, sustainability and cost-effectiveness.
- You define packaging specifications, storage requirements and transport packaging for new parts and existing parts
- You support daily our operational teams with topics related to packaging
- You drive impactful packaging-related projects with an open and critical mindset
- You spread your operational knowledge with several stakeholders in and outside our organization
What Makes You a Perfect Match?
- You have relevant experience with packaging and logistics (engineering background or degree is a plus)
- You know how to drive improvements
- You know how to communicate and adapt your style depending on who is in front of you
- You feel at ease working in close collaboration with both global and operational teams taking the ownership to represent the warehouse in several networks
- You work in a structured way, so that you can balance day-to-day topics with major milestones to reach
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Who we are and what we believe in
We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities.
Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment.
At Group People & Culture, a part of Volvo Group, we create the foundation and frameworks for people growth and organizational development, to drive the people agenda that enables the realization of the Volvo Group aspirations through people strategy and commitment. You will be part of a global and diverse team of highly skilled professionals who work with passion, trust each other and embrace change to stay ahead.