About THG
We’re a fast-moving, global technology group that specialises in taking brands direct to consumers. We’re home to a portfolio of leading brands and sites including Myprotein, ESPA, LOOKFANTASTIC, and Cult Beauty, all of which are powered by our fully integrated digital commerce ecosystem, THG Ingenuity.
We handle everything in-house, including technology, content creation, e-commerce, marketing, manufacturing, new product development, and logistics. This comprehensive approach ensures we can fully realise our vision and maintain our leadership in a rapidly evolving global industry.
Junior Solutions Engineer
Role Location: THG Omega, Skyline Drive, Burtonwood, WA5 3TP
Reporting To: Group Fulfilment Technical Manager
Role Summary:
The Junior Solution Engineer will engage business stakeholders at multiple levels in the design & development of new capabilities, operational improvements, and solutions to solve complex challenges across THG’s global operational network through innovative technologies as part of its ongoing technology roadmap.
You will be responsible for the development and solution design to support business growth and challenges, as well as conducting project and technology feasibility studies and complex systems analysis and modelling.
Role Specification
Role Responsibilities
- Technical expert in automated technologies from either an e-commerce, fulfilment or manufacturing background.
- Complete engineering feasibility studies, and process modelling within the global operations domain to evaluate solutions against requestor requirements.
- Support in the creation of Engineering Standards that complement future Equipment design and can be utilised for project feasibility and execution phases to improve the speed of execution.
- Supporting the creation of functional/technical specifications that can be used and issued to suppliers for initial budget, final pricing, and order placement of capital equipment.
- Support PMO activities for all elements of capital project delivery from initial scoping and feasibility to acting as a technical expert during the delivery and commissioning phase.
- Solve complex operational problems using innovative solutions to drive up efficiencies in logistics and e-commerce fulfilment environments.
- Responsible for the delivery of minor capex projects outside of the PMO activities to ensure the end-to-end delivery of requestor requirements from a project perspective.
Key Activities
- Lead feasibility studies for major Capex investments for Capacity, Innovation, Quality and Cost Improvement, and introduction of novel technologies across global operations.
- Create standard engineering project proposals and Capex estimates for major capital initiatives working together with regional and local leads.
- Develop equipment standards and designs to enable group procurement to obtain standard pricing structures for particular/preferred suppliers and equipment.
- Develop & deploy standardised processes and equipment for capex projects across the group and champion the process concerning specific projects to ensure compliance.
- Benchmarking of common equipment or processes across the group to understand key advantages of each of the various installations and standardise where these bring a competitive advantage.
- Identify and evaluate available technologies and processes to determine operational improvements to maintain or increase competitive advantage and support the long-term growth strategy.
- Provide technical support to project engineers as requested during equipment build-acceptance testing and commissioning.
- Participate in Post Project Implementation Reviews to understand areas for improvement and revision versus the established standards and approach.
Core Skills
- A degree or equivalent qualification in Mechatronic, Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial or Robotics Engineering.
- Demonstrable skills obtained through logistics, e-commerce, and food processing technology projects and working in a high-speed consumer-oriented environment.
- Demonstrable experience in designing/developing engineering projects using automated technologies i.e. Robotics, AGV/AMR, ASRS or similar technologies.
- Experienced in leading or delivering engineering projects with a minimum of 1 year of experience in multi-functional and multi-national projects.
- Demonstrable knowledge in their discipline in defining processes and establishing engineering standards for use in engineering projects.
- Knowledge of engineering standards and directives associated with the delivery of automated equipment.
- External relationships with OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) and Engineering service organisations.
- Experience working with WCM (World Class Manufacturing), LEAN, Six Sigma or similar structured continuous improvement methodologies.
- Good knowledge and understanding of Supply Chain, fulfilment pipeline and overall End to end-to-end business.
- Oral and written communications including presentations to management forums and able to create concise and effective reports and written business cases for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Computer literate including knowledge of web-based systems and comprehensive knowledge of Microsoft Windows suite.
- Able to use experience and judgement to appropriately identify and effectively manage risks and develop contingency plans to resolve them.
THG is proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you are invited to interview, please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to the recruitment process that will enable you to perform to the best of your ability.
THG is committed to creating a diverse & inclusive environment and hence welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
Because of the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it sometimes takes us time to review and consider them all. We endeavour to respond to every application we receive within 14 days. If you haven't heard from us within that time frame or should you have any specific questions about this or other applications for positions at THG please contact one of our Talent team to discuss further.
What We Do
THG (www.thg.com) is a vertically integrated, digital-first consumer brands group, retailing its own brands predominantly in beauty and nutrition, plus third-party brands, via its proprietary, end-to-end, e-commerce technology, infrastructure and brand-building platform (THG Ingenuity) to an online and global customer base.
