Engineering & Investments Manager

Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you.

As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.

To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact

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Location: London/Harlesden – this role covers all UK&I sites

Working Pattern: Site Based 30%, Travelling 70%

Achieving the pladis' ambition requires us to have the agility and responsiveness to service local market needs, make the best use of our capability and capacity to give us the best possible cost base. The Supply Chain team is responsible for ensuring we act as “one” to meet demand, drive the opportunities to maximize our harmonies, prioritizing how we spend capital for the good of the business and enabling effective and efficient local operational management of supply and service.

What will this role achieve?

The role of the Engineering & Investment Manager is a key role within the Central Project Investment Team for the UK & Ireland. The role will be responsible for ensuring successful evaluation and delivery of capital projects led by the Capital Investment team. This will include the full lifecycle project engineering best practice sharing and benchmarking.

To deliver our pladis vision of being a premier confectionary business requires its Supply Chain to consistently deliver unbeatable service and cost. It is imperative that we handle investment with rigor, ensuring that cost, time to deliver, Engineering quality and risk are all effectively controlled. We require significant standardization and optimization of our project processes, systems, resources, and outputs to reduce complexity and maximize the return our investment, and this role is fundamental in delivering this through flawless implementation of capital projects.

This is an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic and dynamic Senior Project Engineering professional to drive standards of excellence across the UK Supply Chain. This is a high-profile central position and will require interaction and collaboration with colleagues across the business to deliver capital projects, with key partners being Factory General Managers and Site Engineering Managers. This requires a solid track record of Engineering experience and Procurement competence.

What will be your key deliverables?

• Reports to the UK’s Engineering and Investments Director with links to Global Investments and Implementation Office,
• Oversee and be responsible for the delivery of various capital projects throughout the UK ensuring the complexity, cost, time‐constraints are fully understood and managed.
• Continually monitor progress to ensure meeting of specific deadlines.
• Responsible for ensuring the correct delivery of all stages of projects from development through to post implementation reviews, including, URS creation, tendering and supplier selection, Resource, time and cost management, Control of contractors with CDM, Contract management, FAT, SAT and formal hand back and project closure.
• Ensure projects are delivered to a high quality of engineering and technical standard and drive world class specification and standard use throughout the Investment team
• Flawless management of changes to the scope and schedule of the project.
• Provide a risk management strategy for the project and implement associated processes and tools to ensure effective identification, monitoring and management of project risks
• Lead project update meetings, and document project status and issues.
• Appraise senior managers and of project status, issues and concerns.
• Actively pursue issue resolution and communicate project status/issues to business partners and operational management.
• Possess a robust knowledge of most technical and business resources and use them to effectively deliver key projects.
• Provide the necessary supporting documentation for the business to evaluate, prioritize and determine the cost effectiveness of initiatives.

Bring your experience.

Essential

• Proven capability within a Blue-Chip Organization including the ability to positively engage at senior level.
• Developed strategic problem solver able to balance short- and long-term goals and is comfortable to take risks for the benefit of the business.
• Strong engineering leadership skills and client focus with attention to delivering sustainable results that exceed customer, sponsor, and partner expectations.
• Communication skills – verbal and non-verbal with the ability to positively engage, motivate and influence an audience.
• Active experience at professional level in engineering and engineering project management.
• Strong Project Management skills.
• BSc ‐ Degree or equivalent experience in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics, Process or similar)
• Hands on user experience of AutoCAD.

Desirable

• Agile thinking and experience of leading a transformation advantageous.
• FMCG or Bakery experience (Preferred)
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or Project Management certification, e.g. Prince2. are preferred

What will the interview process be?

• 1st stage interview – 45 minutes competency-based interview based on our company values and your experiences.
• 2nd stage interview – 60 minutes – a technical interview to understand your skill set/case study or presentation interview.
• Final interview based on Leadership Success Model Assessment/role competencies.

pladis does also use both Psychometric and Aptitude tests to support our processes so you may be asked to complete these as part of your process. Some processes may differ, but we will keep you updated!

What does pladis offer you?

• Annual Car allowance, paid monthly
• Annual Incentive Plan (AIP) – this is the business’s annual bonus scheme.
• Opportunity to self-enrol into Health Cash Plan
• Private medical Insurance
• Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance Cover ~ upon enrolment to Stakeholder Pension Scheme 
• 25 days + bank holidays 
• Holiday Enhancement Scheme
• 1 Volunteering Day per year
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discount and Cashback Scheme – make your everyday spending work hard for you on major high street brands, supermarkets and services
• Access to Employee Assistance Programme
• Financial Wellbeing Support
• Access to great training and development opportunities

Our Values

Purpose led – We’re energised and guided by our purpose to bring happiness with every bite

Agile – We’re ever evolving, we never stand still, always improving for our customers and our consumers.

Positive – We’re highly motivated optimistic, courageous, and we inspire each other to be better

Resilient - We’re persistent in the face of setbacks, quick to adapt, learn and move forward

Collaborative – We gain strength from operating as one pladis, winning and succeeding together

Best mix of ingredients

pladis is an equal opportunities employer, like every great recipe we’re a thoughtful mix. A happy and inclusive place to work that’s as diverse as our consumers and the communities we support, live and work in, all around the world. Where every voice is heard, and difference is celebrated. Where fresh perspectives and new ideas help us grow and thrive.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform key job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.

We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List. If you are a recruitment agency and wish to submit candidate to be considered for this vacancy, you must have agreed to, and signed, our terms of business.
We will not accept CVs from any other sources other than those currently on our PSL. We will not pay a fee for any candidate that has not been represented by a provider on our PSL.