Engineer I - Chemical Process in Southampton

BAT is evolving at pace into a global multi-category business. Our purpose is to create A Better Tomorrow by Building a Smokeless World. To achieve our ambition, we are looking for colleagues who are ready to join us on this journey!

What are the key objectives and expectations from this role?

Working in the Process Experiments Team, the focus of the role is helping to make better Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) innovations through demonstrating chemical engineering processes. The expectations from the role are diverse. The theoretical part of the role requires creativity, teamwork, and constraint free thinking to discover all the different options for solving a technical challenge, and the practical execution demands a 1st principle understanding of the physics and chemistry that govern a process. The role also involves an understanding of developing process and post process quality methods, environmental and health and safety procedures and the ability to clearly present new technical discoveries.

What is the direct impact of this role on the team or organization?

Provide expert process support to New Category teams and the Innovation Development Centre (IDC).

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Collaborating with product developers to help drive creative thinking
• Identifying gaps and opportunities with both equipment and ways of working
• The develop and practical execution of process experiments
• Ownership of technical projects and workstreams ranging from the small to the large.
• Enlightening the organisation in new knowledge and ways of working
• Use of digital tools e.g. Microsoft Planner, Excel, Minitab, SolidWorks.
• Developing the health and safety of our processes

What are we looking for?

Experience Required:

• Proven experience in Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)
• Practical execution of laboratory and pilot plant processes
• Familiarity around crafting experiments, including simplifying the key question to be answered
• Addressing a wide range of audiences, with the ability to articulate the key messages

Technical / Functional / Leadership Skills Required:

• Curious about science, and keen to understand the 1st principles of what makes something effectively work or fail.
• Understands the approaches in solving technical problems, both theoretically and practically
• Brings others with them, helping people at all levels in achieving more
• Shows maturity and insight in resolving people related challenges
• Can prioritise and coordinate

Education / Qualifications / Certifications Required:

• Professional/academic achievement in an engineering or science field up to 1st degree level, or equivalent experience.

BENEFICIAL:

• Education in Chemical engineering
• Hands on experience in an R&D pilot plant.
• Understanding of chemistry, formulating and rheology
• Familiarity of QC measurement techniques and equipment
• Knowledge of industrial processes e.g., mixers, distillation, extrusion, drying, pumping
• Knowledge of hand calculations
• Highly skilled in communicating stories of technical development, in a way that deeply engrosses the audience.

What we offer you?

We offer a market leading annual performance bonus (subject to eligibility). Our range of benefits varies by country and includes diverse health plans, initiatives for work-life balance, transportation support, and a flexible holiday plan with additional incentives. Your journey with us isn't limited by boundaries; it's propelled by your aspirations. Join us at BAT and become a part of an environment that thrives on internal advancement, where your career progression isn't just a statement – it's a reality we're eager to build together. Seize the opportunity and own your development; your next chapter starts here. You’ll have access to online learning platforms and personalized growth programs to nurture your leadership skills. We prioritise continuous improvement within a transformative environment, preparing for ongoing changes.

WHY JOIN BAT?

We’re one of the few companies named as a Global Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute – certified in offering excellent employee conditions. At BAT, we champion collaboration, inclusion, and partnership as the bedrock of our values. We wish to foster an environment where every individual can thrive, irrespective of factors such as gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, skills, experience, education, socio-economic and professional background, as well as diverse perspectives and thinking styles. We recognise that our strength lies in embracing talent from all walks of life, empowering us to develop our culture of inclusivity and better achieve our business objectives. We view career breaks not as obstacles but as opportunities and encourage everyone, without hesitation, to apply. Through our Global Returners program, we provide support to professionals seeking to re-enter the workforce after an extended absence, be it for family care, parental leave, national service, sabbatical, or starting their own venture. Come bring your difference and see what is possible for you at BAT. We take pride in being a Disability Confident Employer. If you need any reasonable adjustments or accommodations to be made during the recruitment process to support you performing at your best, please inform the recruitment partner who will be in touch should your profile be selected for the role you applied for. We are wholeheartedly committed to optimising your prospects of success by making suitable arrangements so that you may showcase your full potential.