Engineering Project Leader

Job Description

Job Role:

Engineering Project Leader Client:
Global FMCG Manufacturer Reporting to:
Head of Engineering

Location:

Regional, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire & Buckinghamshire areas Client:
Category Market leader in FMCG Manufacturing Reward: £65-75k target plus £6-9k car benefit plus Bonus Onsite Monday-Friday days based, some hybrid with travel

Factory/Plant Process working environment

Are you a Senior Project Engineer / Engineering Manager with strong Project Management skills in CAPEX? Ready to lead projects, engineering standards, capital projects and engineering operational excellence? Can you lead and ENGAGE with impact and a world-class engineering toolbox? Are you an engineering Subject Matter Expert for projects in a manufacturing environment?

• Manage the planning and implementation of capital and revenue projects, covering factory equipment, process, packing lines, site services, process engineering, as well as construction
• design management
  
  Driving line installations and BAU engineering projects
• Plan, execute and lead project activities for feasibility studies, equipment specifications, supplier selections, equipment commissioning and validation within demanding time-scales
• Reporting directly to the Project Engineering Manager, you will have complete autonomy to deliver pragmatic, value-engineered projects to cost and time specifications
• You will coach, mentor, and develop your multi-functional teams of engineers and designers/contractors to ensure the successful delivery of projects
• The projects will cover factory equipment, including packaging, processing, and site activities
• Engineering Compliance Champion:
  Ensure all engineering activities meet industry standards
• You will lead engineering and production teams during equipment installation and start-up, supplier selection, feasibility and justification analysis, and equipment commissioning
• Liaise with departments cross-functionally to ascertain requirements and
• define project scopes
• Preparing specifications/briefs which will go to external suppliers for tender
• Managing tender processes, including supplier selection exercises
• Managing external suppliers throughout the project lifecycle
• Lead, monitor and review projects internally across departments
• Co-ordinating all contractors in accordance with our policies

• Mechanical or Electrical Engineering backgrounds will be considered, ideally in a regulated environment, from high FMCG volume manufacturing
• Experience developing technical engineering solutions in automated environments
• An experienced Project Engineer from FMCG manufacturing, food preferred
• Ideally, A degree in Engineering or time served Engineering qualifications with a further education qualification in project management
• High level of IT literacy (and ideally fully conversant with MS Project)
• Proven Leadership and senior stakeholder management:
  Significant experience in a senior engineering management role within the manufacturing FMCG-related sector
• This could include Food, Drink, Pharma and related consumer goods manufacturing, encompassing process and packaging
• Mechanical/electrical qualification or equivalent, ideally a degree, even better if you are chartered!
• 5+ years of Engineering leadership experience; with exposure to FMCG environments ideal
• Excellent People leadership skills to motivate, lead and drive projects

• Competitive salary
• Control and exposure to budgets
• Strategic planning and capital expenditure delivery
• Impactful Work:
  Play a key role in the company's success and make a tangible difference
• Collaborative Environment:
  Be part of a team that values innovation and creativity
• If you're a career interim or a senior engineering capital projects leader becoming available and is a strategic thinker, a natural, inclusive people leader, with a passion for driving engineering projects and, maintenance