Senior Packaging / Product Designer - Gloucester

Position: Senior Packaging / Product Designer

Location: Churcham, Gloucestershire
Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Salary: Competitive

About the business:

An established UK manufacturer in bespoke thermoformed food packaging is seeking an experienced Senior Packaging / Product Designer to join its in-house design team. The business is known for delivering innovative, functional, and sustainable packaging solutions to major food brands. This is an excellent opportunity for a designer with strong technical capability and a passion for packaging innovation to work on products that reach real consumers.

Purpose of a Senior Packaging / Product Designer:

You'll play a key role in the end-to-end design of thermoformed packaging solutions, working closely with commercial, engineering, and production teams. Candidates with 3+ years' experience in thermoforming are ideal, though experience from other plastic packaging sectors will also be considered.

Key Responsibilities of a Senior Packaging / Product Designer:

• Design innovative thermoformed packaging solutions aligned to functional, aesthetic, and market requirements
• Create and modify CAD models using Autodesk Inventor
• Produce high-quality, photorealistic renderings using Keyshot for customer presentations
• Collaborate with Business Development to understand customer briefs and attend site visits where required
• Apply Design for Manufacture (DFM) principles to ensure designs are production-ready
• Work closely with engineering teams through prototype development and validation

Key skillset for a Senior Packaging / Product Designer:

• Degree in Product Design, Industrial Design, or similar (or equivalent industry experience)
• Minimum 3 years' experience in packaging or product design
• Background in thermoforming preferred; other plastic manufacturing sectors considered
• Strong CAD capability (Autodesk Inventor preferred)
• Experience with Keyshot, Adobe Creative Suite, and Microsoft Office
• Confident communicator with strong attention to technical detail
• Collaborative, adaptable, and open to feedback

What's on Offer

• Competitive salary: (dependent on experience)
• Creative, collaborative working environment
• Opportunity to work on high-impact consumer-facing products
• Long-term career development within a growing business
• Potential for hybrid working depending on project requirements

If you are interested in this opportunity, please email apply today.

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