At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead exciting projects in packaging and automation while ensuring sustainability and quality.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking company focused on innovative engineering solutions.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, career growth, and a collaborative work environment.
- Other info: Dynamic role with opportunities to work on impactful projects.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in sustainable packaging and automated operations.
- Qualifications: Degree in engineering and knowledge of FMCG packaging required.
The predicted salary is between 51750 - 63250 £ per year.
Role Purpose: The Senior Project Engineer leads defined projects or significant workstreams; combining practical engineering delivery with a strong understanding of packaging materials, automated packing operations, sustainability objectives and producer responsibility requirements, ensuring projects are delivered safely, to quality standards, on schedule and within agreed cost parameters.
Role Responsibilities:
- Lead smaller-scale projects or self-contained workstreams, and support larger packaging, automation or regulatory change programmes with appropriate guidance from the Project Manager.
- Apply specialist knowledge of FMCG packaging formats, materials, packaging line performance, packing operations and associated quality management processes.
- Support projects linked to packaging waste regulation, extended producer responsibility, recyclability assessment, packaging data requirements and waste reduction objectives.
- Own and deliver project or workstream metrics, including schedule, cost, risk, quality, packaging performance, actions and reporting.
- Develop and maintain project schedules, identify risks to delivery, resolve practical packaging, equipment or supplier issues where possible and escalate when support is required.
- Manage cost control for small or medium-sized projects or act as work breakdown structure owner on major projects, including monitoring engineering resource, packaging trial costs and P.O requirements.
- Support packaging design changes, material trials, procurement, installation, commissioning, qualification, line trials and handover activities as required by the project scope.
- Manage contractor, supplier, client and internal stakeholder interfaces, ensuring packaging suppliers, equipment vendors and operational teams are coordinated and aligned with project objectives.
- Maintain high standards of manufacturing safety, food safety, quality compliance and safe site management during packaging line changes and trials.
- Own stage boundary reviews for assigned projects or work packages, ensuring appropriate documentation, actions, approvals and regulatory considerations are in place.
- Coordinate JPH team members and other resources to achieve project targets, escalating resource demand, technical issues or packaging compliance risks when required.
- Build productive client and stakeholder relationships, manage expectations and support practical solutions that balance operational performance, cost, sustainability and regulatory requirements.
- Contribute to the wider JPH team through business objectives, improvement activities, team initiatives and knowledge sharing.
Person specification: Qualifications (essential) Degree in a relevant engineering discipline.
Senior Project Engineer employer: J P Hildreth Ltd
As a Senior Project Engineer at our company, you will thrive in a dynamic and innovative environment that prioritises sustainability and quality in packaging solutions. We offer a collaborative work culture that encourages professional growth through continuous learning and development opportunities, all while being part of a team dedicated to making a positive impact in the FMCG sector. Located in a vibrant area, our workplace provides unique advantages such as access to cutting-edge technology and a network of industry experts, ensuring that your contributions are both meaningful and rewarding.
