Packaging Solutions Engineer

The Oatly Way

We are the world’s original and largest oat drink company. For over 25 years, we have exclusively focused on developing expertise around oats: a global power crop with inherent properties suited for sustainability and human health. Our commitment to oats has resulted in core technical advancements that enabled us to unlock the breadth of the dairy portfolio, including alternatives to milks, ice cream, yogurt, cooking creams, and spreads. Headquartered in Malmö, Sweden, the Oatly brand is available in more than 20 countries globally.

Why get involved with Oatly, you ask?

Every single department inside Oatly has a role to play in making their area more sustainable. We believe that all our people are contributing to this quest. So if you’re getting a tingly feeling reading this, and think your packaging solutions expertise can help Oatly make the world a more sustainable place, you should definitely keep reading!

Here’s what you would do:

As a Packaging Solutions Engineer in our Packaging Solutions EMEA team, you will be securing the best available and most sustainable packaging solutions for our products, making sure that we are in the forefront in food packaging.

This is an excellent chance for an experienced packaging specialist with great project management skills to get in the game and develop the optimal packaging solution for the total value chain throughout the products lifecycles.

The role will report to our Packaging Solutions Manager and be based in Landskrona, Sweden.

Here’s what the role involves:

You will be working closely with a wide range of internal and external partners, including our suppliers, our market organisations in EMEA as well as our global supply chain operation organisation. Your main responsibility will be to lead packaging solution work in our EMEA region in close collaboration with all key functions in the organisation such as Sustainability, Sourcing, Product Strategy, Product Development, Quality, and Manufacturing.

In closer detail:

- Build organizational “know how” on how to execute packaging activities, including creating new processes, procedures, and methods.

- Lead the roll out of packaging projects for the EMEA region as well as manage local packaging optimization, ensuring structural performance and cost improvements.

- Create and maintain packaging documentation & specifications for primary, secondary & tertiary packages.

- Drive risk assessment & root cause analysis related to packaging solutions.

- Partner with operations and procurement to scope development and initiation of productivity and sustainability projects across all EMEA business categories

- Travel to different manufacturing/supplier locations, mostly in the Europe (15% travel).

This is the job today - but who knows what tomorrow brings? Oatly is still growing, so being comfortable with change and ambiguities will really help you grow in the role.

Here’s the kind of experience, qualities and approach that we’re looking for:

- MSc/BS in Engineering, with 5+ years of relevant work experience

- Experience in food packaging technology and knowledge of food science, food processing, and product development process, with an understanding of food/process/package interactions.


- Experience of and knowledge in packaging construction both in terms of technical solutions as well as design for sustainability, recycling, and production.


- Knowledge in technical test methodologies including physical testing and transportation testing.


- Project management skills and documentation discipline.


- Ability to listen to others needs, identify technical solutions, refine those solutions, and manage internal and external partners expectations against technical and business success criteria with limited available resources.


- Demonstrate resourcefulness, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.


- Naturally curious with a constant pursuit to create improvements, in a rapid, cost effective way.


And here is another list of qualities we think make a good Oatly team member:

Listen for clues

Enjoying listening to others’ viewpoints and contemplating, “does this have a seed of greatness?” Or maybe something less grand, but you get the picture. Trying to understand your colleagues!

Embrace the unknown

An enthusiasm for adapting to an ever-changing environment. The only thing that is constant is change. As some wise people plus a whole lotta Instagram post have said, so you know it’s true.

Get in the game

Taking ownership for awesome, big picture results and not only the bullet-points in your job description. Not waiting for others to direct you, but rather actively seek guidance and propose solutions.



Your Application

We welcome oat nerds/people from all backgrounds that think sustainability, health and transparency are mega important. So send in that CV, cross your fingers and whisper a little prayer to the powers that be. It will be fun, or at least a good time. Promise!

And if you tick most boxes, but not all, apply anyway!

We very much look forward to your application no later than March 6th.



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