[Hiring] Global Packaging Automation Technology Expert @Cartamundi BNL

Role Description

Cartamundi is looking for a passionate and forward-thinking Global Packaging Automation Technology Expert who will impact the future of our worldwide manufacturing footprint. Operating at the intersection of Industrial Innovation, Engineering, and Operations Excellence, you will play a key role in driving high-performance packaging automation systems across all our global sites.

This position is not a “maintain what we have” role. We are seeking a recognized automation expert who brings fresh thinking, challenges conventional approaches, and helps shape bold new automation strategies together with management. Automation leadership is critical; packaging process knowledge is important and valued.

This position offers a unique blend of strategic influence and hands-on technical leadership, with international exposure and the opportunity to make a lasting impact on our global industrial strategy.

Location: This position may be based anywhere in Europe

Your function: As Global Packaging Automation Technology Expert, you will:

• Serve as Cartamundi’s global technical authority, working closely with regional engineering and site experts.
• Build scalable standards once and deploy them many times, reducing repetitive site-level problem solving.
• Define and standardize system architectures for feeding, handling, inspection, packaging, and downstream automation.
• Ensure high system performance, focusing on throughput, quality, reliability, waste reduction, and OEE.
• Challenge and guide sites to improve stability and output.
• Identify and evaluate new automation technologies, OEMs, robotics, motion, vision, and digital solutions.
• Translate emerging technologies into scalable industrial solutions and actively shape strategic investment decisions.
• Optimize PLC logic, motion control, servo drives, and system synchronization to enhance performance.
• Lead FAT, SAT, commissioning, ramp-up, and qualification activities (IQ/OQ/PQ).
• Develop global standards, SOPs, reference designs, and validation protocols for packaging automation systems.
• Train, coach, and build capability within engineering, operations, and maintenance teams worldwide.
• Act as the global escalation point for critical automation and system performance issues.
• Collaborate with R&D, Engineering, Operations, and Supply Chain to ensure manufacturability and supplier alignment.
• While hands-on during critical project phases, this role is not a shift-based operation support position.

Qualifications

• You are an experienced automation professional who thrives in high-speed manufacturing environments and enjoys combining hands-on engineering with global impact.
• You hold a degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, or Automation Engineering—or you bring equivalent experience.
• You have solid, relevant experience (typically 5+ years) in industrial automation, preferably in high-speed or complex manufacturing environments.
• You are comfortable working with PLC and motion platforms (Siemens, Rockwell, Beckhoff) and have experience with vision systems such as Cognex or Keyence.
• You understand product handling technologies—feeding, vacuum handling, mechanical transfer—and you are skilled in data-driven improvement methods such as SPC, RCA, DOE, and OEE.
• You communicate clearly, think analytically, and approach challenges in a structured and pragmatic way.
• You enjoy working with different cultures and teams across the globe and are willing to travel internationally up to 50%.
• You are at ease in a role where you coach others and build their capabilities, share expertise, and serve as a technical reference.

Benefits

• A high-impact global role with the ability to shape Cartamundi’s packaging automation strategy.
• The opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and leading global suppliers.
• A dynamic, international environment with collaboration across continents.
• Continuous opportunities for professional development and technical mastery.
• A culture that values expertise, initiative, and results.
• Competitive compensation and benefits.

Company Description

Cartamundi is the worldwide leader in “play” solutions, such as playing cards, card & board games, and collectibles & trading card games. Its team of nearly 3,000 people is united in providing every person the possibility to “Live Different, Play Different.”

To achieve this, the family-owned company, headquartered in Belgium, operates a global network of design and sales offices and manufacturing facilities, stretching from the US, over Latin America and Europe, to Japan.

The company houses a global brand portfolio that includes a suite of heritage brands such as Bicycle®, Bee®, Copag®, Shuffle® and many locally loved brands. At the same time, Cartamundi is a trusted manufacturing and distribution solutions partner for leading toy and entertainment companies.

Given the Cartamundi printing presses have been running since 1765, the company draws on a rich tradition, whilst at the same time stimulating innovation in digital and hybrid experiences to stay relevant today and tomorrow.

Cartamundi pursues a strategy of sustainable and profitable growth whilst preserving our planet and the company in excellent condition for generations to come.