Product Manufacturing Engineer – Beer/Distillation

Product Manufacturing Engineer – Beer/Distillation – London or Scotland

Day rate: £500 – £600 (inside IR35)

Duration: 12 months (possible extension)

Start: ASAP

My new client is looking for a Product Manufacturing Engineer to join on a long term contract. The role is positioned in the Global Engineering, Digital & Automation team which provides Capital Project delivery support to our manufacturing sites including distillation and maturation warehousing to name a few.

This role more specifically will support their Digital Supply Chain initiative driving specific workstreams for Operational technology infrastructure improvements.

Baseline project engineering requirements:

• Development of requirement specifications in collaboration with other internal teams such as Operations.

• Use of specialist knowledge to deliver capex projects to correct technical specification.

• Development of cost estimates and project schedules.

• Managing efficient spend for capex projects.

• Co-ordinating and managing external resources.

• Management of the project lifecycle including capital approval, maintaining accurate financial data including spend and forecast and project closure.

• Manage and overseeing commissioning activities.

• Ensure compliance with all relevant health, safety and environmental standards.

• Exceptional Stakeholder management skills with ability to communicate effectively and proactively with cross functional teams and internal customers regarding plans, products, issues, timelines and solution value.

• Programme management experience within large FMCG organisation(s) (preferred)

Specialist Skills

• Manufacturing Executions Systems delivery knowledge & experience demonstrating extensive experience with IT/OT integration.

• Packaging Machinery, Line Management & Control Systems delivery knowledge & experience

• Server Hardware, Virtualisation & Industrial Networking Technologies project delivery knowledge & experience.

• Manufacturing cybersecurity risk management experience.

• Continuous Process Control systems project delivery experience.

• Proficiency reviewing solution designs using logical and physical diagrams.

Education

• Degree qualified in science/engineering discipline

• Recognised Project Management competence certification