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Nestle Project Engineering Manager in Tutbury, United Kingdom
Position Snapshot
Business Area: Nestle Beverage
Job Title: Project Engineering Manager
Location: Tutbury Factory, Derbyshire
Salary: £55,000-£60,000 depending on experience + car allowance + potential bonus + generous pension scheme + 12 flexible days on top of 25-day holiday entitlement + 2 paid volunteering days + other fantastic benefits!
Position Summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Engineering Manager, to join our team based at our Nestlé UK&I, Tutbury Factory.
This role will support the technical side of site wide investment plans ensuring a design for manufacturing excellence (free of waste) and support the execution (from investment project charter until vertical start-up) by managing a cross-functional team whose objective is to oversee the capital investments relating to the company's fixed assets. This could involve the relocation and optimising of the existing fixed asset base and/or the purchase of new fixed assets.
A day in the life of a Project Engineering Manager
During project design phase:
Support the team to manage the basic and detailed design of all site projects based on Nestlé Corporate Business Principles, Nestlé Corporate and Category standards, local regulations, the defined User Requirements Specifications and the TPM characteristics of a unit operation (safety, quality, affordability, maintainability, operability and reliability). Ensure by design the workers, and operators, safety during both the construction and the ongoing operation of the plant. Ensure available feedback from previous projects is leveraged to prevent waste and optimize execution. Ensure Category standards and best practices are leveraged in the design to enable Manufacturing Excellence.
During the project implementation phase:
Lead the team and coordinate the contribution of all the stakeholders, to ensure that the fixed asset side of the project is implemented (e.g. buildings and equipment construction, testing, installation and commissioning) in accordance with the defined category standards, timing, cost and quality. And that all of the elements of the project (including technical people training, as needed) in performed in such a way that safety is always guaranteed on the whole project site and a vertical start-up is assured.
During the start-up phase of the project:
Support the PE's to coordinate efforts with the start-up managers and their teams to ensure a Vertical Start-up. meeting manufacturing excellence criteria and the required production volumes. Complete and smooth transition to operations after the qualification and verification of the installation.
Prepare and distribute the engineering project documentation, including the engineering part of the project final report, the Project Defect analysis (PDA). Ensure that all new assets are registered in the system and that their expense is properly allocated to start depreciation. Ensure that the investment project charter has been fulfilled and that the project scope is achieved with the agreed cost and timing.
During the whole project life:
Be the engineering project team leader, meaning integrating, motivating, feeding back, coaching, developing, managing and evaluating team members and being their support and liaison with the steering committee and all the project's stakeholders. Keep the head of Project Management informed. Keep all the required communication channels open.
What will make you successful?
To be successful in this key role we expect you to ideally have experience working in a FMCG manufacturing environment. Experience managing CapEx projects is essential.
The ideal candidate will also have experience ensuring that the engineering side of projects have been implemented (e.g. buildings, equipment installations, piping, utilities, etc.) in accordance with the defined timing, cost and quality, the URS and the characteristics of a unit operation.
• Project management accreditation – desirable.
• Degree/Diploma in an Engineering discipline
• Financial and budget analysis and tracking: In-depth knowledge of Costing Guidelines and Finance & Accounting principles; Operational Business Drivers
• Food plant principles and hygienic engineering: Food processing plants and technologies (Maintenance and Utilities), food safety, hygienic engineering
• Experience in ensuring SH&E standards
• People Development & Management tools (including PDP, Talent Review, coaching, competencies training, career & succession planning, recruitment and compensation)
• TPM, Early Management and Lean design methodologies experience
• Deep understanding of product category value chain (e.g. raw materials, manufacturing, distribution).
• Understanding of regulatory affairs and packaging and labelling designs.
• Understanding of Local regulations for both: plants operation and plants construction.
What you need to know
What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus statutory holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.
The closing date for this role is 03/04/2025
We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.
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