Placement Student- Packaging Environmental & Regulatory

Job Description

Our culture believes in POWERING YOUR POTENTIAL . We provide global opportunities to develop your career, make your community a better place and work with today’s most innovative thinkers to solve the world’s toughest problems.

We believe in adaptability for you to explore your passions while making an impact through meaningful work within our inclusive workforce. That’s what #LifeAtCummins is all about.

We are looking for an enthusiastic Packaging Environmental & Regulatory Student to join our team specializing in Logistics for our Corporate/CBS Segment in Daventry. During your placement with us, you will learn how a major global organization operates, gaining the tools and exposure you will need to become an expert in the industry and power your potential!

This role is available to candidates who qualify for a placement year and will commence 7th July 2025.

External Qualifications and Competencies

There will be a keen focus on developing the processes needed to effectively manage the constantly changing packaging regulatory environment across the globe. The environmental impact of packaging is also a focus of this role and will consist of developing a process to audit packaging waste at manufacturing facilities to meet our PLANET2050 goals.

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

• Identifying and managing packaging environmental and regulatory improvement projects.
• Developing and deploying a physical waste audit process for UK based manufacturing and logistics facilities.
• Packaging Data Collection and Analysis from external suppliers and other Cummins Sites.
• Working with Global Supply chain Partners on Environmental Packaging Improvement Projects.
• Providing input and developing visuals for Environmental / Regulatory Newsletter.
• Reading and interpreting regulatory guidance.

Additional Responsibilities Unique to this Position

To be successful in this role you will need the following:

• Working towards a degree in Sciences/Business/Logistics/Supply Chain/Project Management related area.
• Excellent IT Skills, in particular Excel and PowerPoint, PowerBi.
• Previous experience in business or packaging and warehousing a plus.
• Ability to process legal or regulatory information, understand data, solve problems and think innovatively.

Working at Cummins

At Cummins, we are dedicated to diversity in the workplace and our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, gender, colour, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity, and/or expression or other status protected by law.

CLOSING DATE: Monday 4th November 2024, 11:59pm

About Us

At Cummins, we are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer dedicated to diversity in the workplace. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, gender, colour, disability, national origin, age, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity and/or expression, or other status protected by law. Visit EEOC.gov to know your rights on workplace discrimination.