Adepto Technical Recruitment Ltd Looking for Senior Mechanical Project Engineer at Cheshire Full Time

Our client is a dynamic global organization with more than a century of leadership in manufacturing health, agriculture, and performance chemicals. They are also a leading provider in the world of specialty chemicals for agriculture, nutrition, pharmaceutical, fine chemicals, medical, personal care, plastics, coatings, and many other industrial markets. Their products are in the things you use every day – toothpaste, deodorants, vitamins, pharmaceuticals, detergents, plastics, adhesives, inks, tires, and more. Their culture is built on mutual trust and respect for all employees to focus on providing the best products and solutions to their customers.

They hold themselves and each other Accountable for Delivering Results with a Bias for Action while always acting with the utmost integrity, this is truly what it means to be an employee at this company. They take great pride in displaying their Core Values through their work and their teams.

Job Summary:

A key member of the engineering team working closely with the site operations team to drive the way forward on improvement projects. To deliver projects that will assist in driving the culture for change, development and improvement to ensure the site is ‘world class’.

Manage multiple projects and coordinate selection and management of engineering contractors as well as liaising with internal functions to achieve successful execution of the projects to agreed time, cost and quality targets.

Take projects from concept, through hazard and risk analysis, specification, procurement, installation and commissioning.

Lead projects, which are predominantly mechanically focused but will require multi-disciplined engineering input.

Responsibilities:                             

Complete project management tasks to ensure projects and other work packages are completed safely, on-time, on-budget and to an acceptable quality standard

Co-ordinate other groups on site required for project success e.g. regulatory compliance, R&D, QA, Operations and Logistics

Produce scopes of work and project plans in line with the requirements of Operations and th Engineering team

Develop capital funding requests

Manage scopes, timescales and financial aspects of capital projects

Generate tracking reports and deliver updates to peers and the leadership team on a regular basis

• Manage a programme of empty, clean, make safe and demolish redundant plant, equipment and buildings. Supervise construction/dismantling work from start to completion:
  • identify the work
  • identify any safety implications and incorporate suitable mitigation into the work
  • identify if other precautions are necessary, e.g. if a Management of Change form is required
  • plan the work as appropriate
  • prepare the work as appropriate
  • ensure materials and services are in place to support the work
  • select appropriate personnel to carry out the work
  • schedule the work for action
  • submit copies of work orders to Operations for overnight preparation, clearly identify permit requirements and other safety or technical issues
  • supervise the work
  • check and monitor the work
  • ensure the work is satisfactorily completed
  • update records to ensure job traceability and accurate records

Qualifications/Desired Skills:

Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Recognised Project Management Qualification (preferable but not essential if suitably experienced)

5 years+ project leadership experience in chemical manufacturing environment

Demonstrable experience of new installations and cut & carve projects

Demonstrable experience working with aging plant

Demonstrable knowledge of current legislation relevant to regulatory compliance and construction activities

Demonstrable experience working in Top Tier COMAH environment

CDM 2015

IOSH managing Safely / NEBOSH General

Familiarity with engineering disciplines typically involved in capital projects

Process/Chemical Engineering

Mechanical engineering

Civil construction

EC&I engineering

Structural

Rewards

Competitive salary depending on experience

Bonus

Pension

4 x salary Death in Service

25 days holiday plus statutory