Packaging & Graphic Content Compliance Lead Engineer

About the role

This role is based at the Dyson Development Centre in Johor, Malaysia, within the Graphics & Packaging team.

As a Packaging Content & Compliance Lead Engineer, you will lead the governance, verification and continuous improvement of packaging & graphics content across Dyson products. The role exists to reduce repeat errors, strengthen control of graphics contents and compliance wording, and ensure packaging information is accurate, consistent and ready for release across global markets. This role also ensures that mandatory tests for packaging and graphic items are in place and meet latest market requirements.

You will act as the technical lead and escalation point for packaging content accuracy, working closely with Packaging Engineering, Graphics, Regulatory, Quality, Commercial, Project Management, Manufacturing and Supply Chain teams. You will define robust ways of working, maintain clear requirements, challenge gaps, and drive corrective and preventive actions so that Dyson packaging meets customer, regulatory and brand expectations without compromising project delivery.

Accountabilities

Packaging and Graphic Content Governance

• Lead the verification of packaging content, including box contents, labels, symbols, warnings, claims, carton markings, barcodes and market-specific wording.

• Ensure packaging content is aligned to approved product specifications, customer requirements, regulatory inputs, brand guidance and project deliverables.

• Own and maintain clear content requirement documentation, ensuring changes are captured, controlled, communicated and implemented across relevant projects.

• Review and approve packaging content at key project stages before artwork release, print approval or production readiness.

Compliance, Risk and Issue Resolution

• Identify content, compliance and artwork risks early, assess potential impact to projects and drive timely corrective action.

• Act as the escalation point for recurring packaging content issues, customer complaints or non-conformances linked to box contents and compliance wording.

• Lead root cause reviews and ensure robust preventive actions are embedded into standards, checklists and ways of working.

• Lead & maintain latest update on mandatory test and requirement in G&P area.

Continuous Improvement and Standards

• Define, improve and standardise packaging & graphics content processes, templates, approval checklists and review gates across Graphics & Packaging.

• Drive lessons learnt from project issues, print errors and customer feedback into sustainable process improvements.

• Build capability across project teams by sharing best practice, coaching engineers and improving awareness of common packaging content risks.

• Monitor the effectiveness of improvements through clear metrics, issue trends and feedback from project stakeholders.

• Support implementation of new tools or ways of working that improve content accuracy, version control and approval discipline.

Cross-functional Delivery

• Work across Packaging Engineering, Graphics, Regulatory, Quality, Commercial, Project Management, Manufacturing and Supply Chain to align requirements and resolve blockers.

• Influence stakeholders without direct authority to ensure packaging content decisions are made clearly, quickly and with the right level of technical rigour.

• Provide clear status, risks and mitigation plans to project and functional leaders, supporting on-time, on-quality delivery through to SOP.

About you

• Degree in Packaging Engineering, Graphic Communication, Product Design, Engineering, Regulatory Compliance or equivalent practical experience.

• Typically 5+ years’ experience in packaging, artwork, product labelling, compliance, quality or related engineering environments.

• Proven experience managing cross-functional content or documentation approval processes in a fast-moving product development environment.

• Strong understanding of packaging artwork, printed content, labelling requirements, regulatory wording, customer requirements and version control.

• Experience leading continuous improvement activity, root cause analysis and corrective actions within engineering, quality or operational teams.

Skills and behaviours

• Exceptional attention to detail, with a strong sense of ownership for accuracy, compliance and quality.

• Able to balance technical detail with the wider project, commercial and customer impact.

• Confident communicator who can influence stakeholders, challenge gaps constructively and drive clear decisions.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify trends, remove root causes and prevent repeat issues.

• Highly organised, with strong documentation, governance and version-control discipline.

• Comfortable leading workstreams, coaching others and operating independently in a matrix organisation.

• Able to manage multiple priorities and maintain delivery pace without compromising accuracy.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office and artwork review tools; experience with PLM, approval workflows or packaging documentation systems would be beneficial.

• Curious, proactive and driven to improve how things work, with a clear focus on preventing mistakes before they reach production or customers.

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.