Group Principal Engineer

We are one of the world’s leading manufacturers of collagen products for the food industry. We supply high quality edible films and coatings to over 1,000 customers in more than 100 countries, delivering our purpose of ‘Creating the Added Layer of Value’.

Primarily used by customers in the production of a wide variety of sausage and meat products, our aspirations reach way beyond our current products and services, and appeal to our natural curiosity to improve what we do.

As a global organisation, we currently employ around 2,000 people spanning the Americas, UK/EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions. We offer careers in research and development, science and food technology, manufacturing and supply chain operations, engineering, sales, and a range of other business support functions. We are always seeking talented people to join the amazing colleagues we have, to keep growing our business.

Our mission is to sustainably utilise technology and biomaterial science-based solutions, to delight our customers. We are a business committed to the pursuit of better. The constant pursuit of what’s next, what’s needed, what’s possible now, and in the future. Do you want to be part of our journey?

About the role

Reporting to the Head of Engineering and Capital Programs, you will assist with the planning and execution of engineering projects across the group, driving safe, sustainable and cost-effective solutions to business needs.

Promote the standardisation of engineering and project management practices whilst ensuring safety is built into all projects and their subsequent operations. You will promote Best Practice and Technology Convergence initiatives, reducing cost and complexity and lead new Process Innovation to improve customer experience and Cost Of Goods Sold (COGS).

Responsibilities

• Maintain a safe and healthy working environment moving towards a zero-accident community – ensure that our assets do not pose any unsafe conditions.
• Support Capacity projects across the group to help deliver “Winning Together” strategic sales targets.
• Deputise for the Head of Engineering and Capital Programs as required.
• Participate with the Best Practice teams - Hide to Gel; Extrusion to Reel; Shirring to Packing; Maintenance & Reliability, supporting projects that achieve the delivery of the cost saving targets on Engineering, Technology and Maintenance initiatives.
• Identify and address technical limitations across the sites impacting Safety, Quality, and output and support the transfer and sharing of knowledge across Engineering Community.
• Promote standardisation within Process Engineering to reduce cost and implement a Project Management process to ensure efficiency in spending and achieve capital spending in each year.
• Working closely with the Group Business Development (GBD) function to deliver improvements across the group to achieve superior customer experience via products that machine well, cook well, and have no consumability issues.
• Support the building of agility and flexibility in the Supply Chain.
• Build Engineering knowledge around the group, supporting, coaching, mentoring, if required.
• Responsibility to ensure that people within Engineering and Technology are engaged and possess knowledge, skills, capabilities to carry out work and that the talent base is developed to match strategy for Operations, especially for ‘Casing Engineers’.

About you

Experience

• Track record of results.
• Strong record on delivering technical change, and project management and delivery.
• Experience in different functional areas demonstrated over a period of time.
• Ability to work across different cultures.

Skills

• Strong technical and project execution skills.
• The ability to influence at all levels across the organisation.
• Lead local / global teams through change.
• Proven organisational, multi-tasking and time management skills.
• Demonstrates ability to support team development of skills and capabilities. Strong people engagement and communication skills.

Knowledge

• Strong technical and project execution skills.
• The ability to influence at all levels across the organisation.
• Lead local / global teams through change. Proven organisational, multi-tasking and time management skills. Demonstrates ability to support team development of skills and capabilities.
• Strong people engagement and communication skills.

What next?

If this sounds like a role that you would be interested in, then we would love to hear from you. To apply, please email a copy of your CV, along with a cover letter explaining the key attributes that you could bring to the role.

We value the support recruitment agencies provide, however we are unable to accept speculative CV’s from agencies we are not already engaged with.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Supply Chain and Engineering
• Industries
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing and Manufacturing