Senior Project Engineer

4 weeks ago


Girvan South Ayrshire, United Kingdom William Grant & Sons Full time

About Us

William Grant & Sons is a fifth-generation family distiller, established in 1887. We are proud of the premium brands that the business has nurtured over the 135 years, not only in Scotch Whisky, but Gin, Irish Whiskey, Gin, Tequila, Vodka, and Bourbon. Our business prides itself on production of high quality, innovative spirits at its distilling sites in Scotland, Ireland, the U.S., and Mexico. Over a number of decades, the business has developed its internal capabilities to produce efficient and innovative spirits. Today, we continue to invest heavily in our internal capabilities for engineering and technical competencies. In the past ten years, our distilleries engineering team have constructed new distilleries at a greenfield site in Tullamore, Ireland, significantly expanded their flagship Glenfiddich distillery, built a completely new gin distillery for Hendrick’s gin, purchased and begun the expansion of their Tequila distillery in Jalisco, Mexico and continued to progressively expand their grain distillery in Girvan, Scotland to the largest whisky distilling site in Europe. Our ambitions continue to grow our business organically and to transform our operations to carbon zero facilities. Technology developments will deliver significant benefits in quality and productivity and will be a key theme of future engineering priorities.

Vacancy: Senior Project Engineer

Main Responsibility:

  1. Design, develop, and/or deliver Capital & Special Revenue projects to increase site capabilities and improve process efficiencies within WG&S Operations Business Unit.
  2. Manage multi-discipline engineering development and/or delivery of project activities across the Girvan site that are not covered in the normal scope of the maintenance teams and through pre-planned maintenance activities.
  3. Development of comprehensive Engineering expertise, utilising this to address current plant issues, replacement requirements, capacity increases, productivity increases, health & safety, and environmental improvement initiatives.
  4. Implement initiatives that create an optimal and sustainable future plant/infrastructure setup and deliver value-adding engineering practices.
  5. Identify and quantify development plans into Site Master plans and relevant budgets with the appropriate justification.
  6. Provide and manage detailed information that supports the post-project capital reviews, identifying opportunities to develop future project delivery performance.
  7. Provide and manage reporting on relevant performance metrics (e.g., Capital Spend; Milestone Adherence; Additional Spend Requests) taking appropriate actions when necessary.
  8. Implement the process framework and develop detailed process documentation with the appropriate governance structure according to the WGW.
  9. Develop and coordinate engineering standards and execute day-to-day engineering in bottling / distilling facilities to ensure continuous operations and minimize downtime.
  10. Monitor and evaluate buildings and energy / utility infrastructure assets to ensure they are kept in good working order to maximize efficiencies, minimize wastage and eliminate risk of outages/blockages.

Ideal Candidate:

  • Experience within a similar Senior Project Engineering role, running significant scale CAPEX projects, in a manufacturing/FMCG environment.
  • Degree level qualified or with equivalent, lengthy project management experience
  • Particular expertise in Process Engineering (Chemical or Mechanical)
  • Experience in using project management methodologies
  • Knowledge of current health & safety/environmental compliance
  • Experience in use of Continuous Improvement techniques and analysis
  • Excellent communication & presentation skills.
Benefits
  • Competitive salary and benefits designed to promote employees' financial wellbeing.
  • Bonus plan eligibility.
  • Generous holiday entitlement with an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
  • Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
  • Defined contribution pension plan.
  • Employee Assistance Programme offering practical, impartial support on everyday matters.
  • Life Assurance cover of multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
  • Product allocation for enjoying the fantastic portfolio of brands.
  • Cycle to Work scheme for hiring a bike and making savings.
  • Opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities.
  • Learning resources to help employees be their best self.
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