Seeking an Engineering Project Manager to deliver and manage large engineering projects up to £5 million, ensuring alignment with company processes. Identify future projects and cost-saving opportunities to maintain a competitive business edge. Responsibilities include overseeing capital spending and generating investment proposals, with significant impacts on safety, quality, and costs.

Key Accountabilities:

• Project Management: Define project specifications, prepare RFP/RFQ documents, and identify and mitigate risks. Develop detailed project plans and manage multiple projects from inception to completion.
• Operational Improvement: Assess and communicate post-project benefits, conduct lessons learnt activities, and support continuous improvement. Lead onboarding and training for new equipment to maximise performance.
• Safety & Quality: Ensure all asset purchases comply with UK/European standards, manage installation risks, and conduct cross-functional risk assessments. Validate new assets and complete required qualification activities.
• Strategic Planning: Analyse current and future business needs for assets, contribute to capital expenditure budgeting, and develop compelling cases for asset investment.
• Communication: Build strong cross-functional relationships, effectively communicate opportunities, risks, and benefits of investments, and lead cross-functional teams and supplier collaborations to deliver projects efficiently.

Engineering Project Manager Competencies:

• Qualifications: Degree-level education.
• Experience: Proven experience in the FMCG sector, particularly in large capex project delivery (preferably in aerosols).
• Skills: Ability to work cross-functionally, understand quality, health & safety, and environmental requirements for installations, deliver projects, resolve issues, and apply lean engineering techniques. Commercial awareness and a good understanding of financial systems and controls are also essential.

This role requires maintaining strong relationships within the business and with key capital equipment suppliers to ensure timely and budgeted project delivery. Effective inter-departmental communication and collaboration are crucial.

Offering a competitive salary & benefits package.